I tried the foam (Gutter Filter) and I must admit I was happy for a while then very disappointed. As others have mentioned my roof pitch was just too steep for the caps. The foam seemed like a great option. The product worked fine for about 3 years. After that, it started getting clogged with debris or shingle grit. When I would remove it to clean it, pieces of the product would break-off or crumble (even in locations without direct sun). After 5 years, I completely removed it. I'm back to cleaning the old way for now.
Is there a Gutter protection that works??
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BobRip
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I have "Flip Clean" gutters. The gutters are on hinges and you reach up with a pole and flip the gutters to dump them. It takes about 10 minutes to dump 400 feet of gutters. I am very pleased with them.
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Unfortunatally I think that is what I am going to have to do. Nothing like blasting leaves out of the gutter with 3200psi of pressure washer power. But it is a messy job that I dread. I only have a 50' hose on the PW and need to get down and move the PW 3 times to complete.
Thank god it's not a metal roof @ 6/12 pitch like the barn. Which doesnt have gutters. A little erosion around it doesnt bother me cause there is no basement under it.
beppington
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I made a little gadget:
(1) 2.5" PVC pipe from Home Depot
(3) 2.5" PVC 90's
I attached the pipe to my blower (removed my blower's factory tube), & the 90's to the other end, oriented so the wind goes up the pipe & does a 180 down into the gutter, & then a 90 to the left to blow lenghtwise along the gutter. Rather than gluing the joints, I used one short wood screw at each joint to 1) keep them together, & 2) give me the option of tweaking the orientation if I need to.
I can walk along the ground & blow the gutters out. Works best when the gutters are dry. May not get them spotless, but good enough.
This is a 1-story. PVC pipe for a 2-story would be too heavy for most I think.
(1) 2.5" PVC pipe from Home Depot
(3) 2.5" PVC 90's
I attached the pipe to my blower (removed my blower's factory tube), & the 90's to the other end, oriented so the wind goes up the pipe & does a 180 down into the gutter, & then a 90 to the left to blow lenghtwise along the gutter. Rather than gluing the joints, I used one short wood screw at each joint to 1) keep them together, & 2) give me the option of tweaking the orientation if I need to.
I can walk along the ground & blow the gutters out. Works best when the gutters are dry. May not get them spotless, but good enough.
This is a 1-story. PVC pipe for a 2-story would be too heavy for most I think.
k0ua
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the rolled edge metal caps have worked well for me., havent cleaned gutters for about 5 years now. They were cheap do-it-yourself sort of thing. Some of the clips have worked loose, and fell in the gutter, but doesnt seem to make any difference, they still stay on and work ok. Unless you get a "toad strangler" rain, then the rain shoots over the gutter so hard that it lands way out in the yard.. so doesnt really hurt anything.
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Since they are still in the box I am not sure how they are going to work but i hope to know in a week or two.
Since they are still in the box I am not sure how they are going to work but i hope to know in a week or two.
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From Consumer Reports Sept. 2010
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What works for me is no gutters at all. Have 3' overhang, and been here 43 years with no gutters. Do some ground guttering along the drip line to get water away from the foundation and just put up with some inconvenience of water dripping over the entryway.
But don't have any problem with cleaning gutters or ice dams building up behind them. :cool2:
But don't have any problem with cleaning gutters or ice dams building up behind them. :cool2:
Pirate
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I went with these because of the window type screen over the larger holes in the plastic, brown not white. I wanted to keep the granules from the shingles from collecting in the gutters. I'll report next spring how they work. I won't mind some water collection. If it rains too hard, I don't really care if the water runs right over these gutter guards. It's easier to put up with a bit of water every now and then instead of cleaning out those dang gutters. My next step is to just remove the gutters all together. I don't think I get enough rain to cause problems and I am literally on top of a ridge. Little to no yard because of steep slopes off the front and back. Not sure why the builder put gutters on this place to begin with. A bit more rant: They knuckleheads used those giant spikes to put up the gutters with. This is only 14 years old. Surely they could have used a more modern attachment system instead of that?
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Kinda suprises me on this chart that all but a few score higher than jsut an open gutter under the heavy folw and severe flow categories.
The idea is to reduce buildup. But I dont see how any product on the market could possibly work better than just an open gutter in heavy and severe rains. Kinda makes me wonder???
But I may have to look into the two amerimax ones on there that are checked as best buys. They score fairly well both are cheap.