On 2007-05-21, aezael aezael wrote:
I am getting too old to climb ladders and clean the gutters so I am
asking for any input about how to protect the gutters from being
filled with leaves and debris.

This looks interesting:

http://www.leaffilter.com/

The seem confident enough to name their major competitors. Usually,
companies don't directly name their competitors, instead saying "better
than the other leading brand" or things like that, unless they are very
sure that they are better.

This also seems to be an interesting approach:

http://www.leaffilter.com/

Basically, it has slats that get installed. The rain runs off the roof,
and the slats disperse it, so that it falls to the ground like rain,
instead of like a stream of running water.

I have a question about gutters. How clean do they need to be? Say my
getters are 3" deep, and an inch of crud accumulates somewhere, say in the
middle. OK, so I will basically have a 1" dam there, so will get some
standing water in the gutter. Is that a problem? Won't the result
simply be some standing water in part of the gutter? Any rain water
will either drain, or become part of the 1" deep lake behind that dam,
so there doesn't seem to be a drainage issue with having a little lake
in the gutter. Are there other problems with it, such as it becoming a
breeding ground for nasty things?