There is a gutter brush advertised on tv that you can stand on the ground and clean gutters with a brush on a long handle and water running. Would like to hear of others experience please before I buy. Thanks in advance.
wasgonna,
Jan 5, 1:37pm
If you mean Gutter Witch avoid them like the plague.
golfdiver,
Jan 5, 1:50pm
Utter junk
whitehead.,
Jan 5, 7:24pm
on the farm i had brush like things that you put in the gutters and the leaves could not go in .worked well about every three years i took them out gave them a shake and put them back again dead leaves all over the lawn
3ofeach,
Jan 5, 8:27pm
I think those are called gutter whiskers. I have those along one side of the house to stop birds nesting in the roof and the leaves and they are excellent.
hezwez,
Jan 6, 9:37am
A friend tells me that after years of trying to hose out annoying build-up of beech leaves in her gutters, she now waits for a dry day and uses a leaf-blower to blow them out. Works perfectly and takes about ten minutes on a safe dry roof as opposed to hours of dangerous wet/slick roof work.
kam04,
Jan 6, 3:26pm
Birds burrow through mine. In fact in some areas they try and kick them out. Bustards!
golfdiver,
Jan 6, 4:51pm
As a roofer, I have extensive experience with pretty well all the products on the market. IMO the best is the foam inserts. The water goes straight through, the leaves don't. The gutter whiskers are terrible. They block up constantly and the sun destroys them and the bristles go brittle and break off. Never fit the mesh systems either.
samanya,
Jan 6, 4:58pm
That sounds like my sort of scheme . makes sense.
smiler127,
Jan 6, 6:03pm
golfdiver wrote: As a roofer, I have extensive experience with pretty well all the products on the market. IMO the best is the foam inserts. The water goes straight through, the leaves don't. The gutter whiskers are terrible. They block up constantly and the sun destroys them and the bristles go brittle and break off. Never fit the mesh systems either.[/quote
Am not a roofer but am using the gutter guard foam inserts on my shed which has a large roof and is under trees. The foam has worked brilliantly! It works out at a similar price as the nasty brushes, but I did get mine on here from someone who had a load left over from a house build. Would certainly recommend them.
koru67,
Jun 20, 6:06pm
Great to know, thanks.
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