"Bob F" wrote in message
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Robert Green wrote:

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I have an outside air hose by the back steps. A quick "scan" with
the blaster nozzle gets all the crud out of the tread of my shoes
before I go inside after gardening. I probably use more air on that
than anything else. The 10 foot copper pipe, adjustable end nozzle
gutter cleaner runs a close second.

What great ideas. I was looking for an excuse to buy an
auto-retracting air hose to mount below the porch and now I have it.
Tell me more about the air powered gutter cleaning wand. Home brew
or COTS?

Home brew. Air fitting and ball valve on one end of a 1/2" copper pipe. On
the
other end, a female thread fitting. Into that I screwed two threaded PVC
street
ells and a nozzle I made by heating a few inches of copper tube and
clamping it
around a nail, then pulling the nail out. The 2 street ells allow the
nozzle to
be pointed any way I want, and can form a "hook" that helps guide it along
the
gutter edge.

Thanks for the info! How do you keep from getting a face full of gutter
muck? That's been the issue with the water driven method I occasionally
use. Every once in a while, I get a backscatter of muck which is much
better fertilizer than it is face cream.

I was almost going to get a IRobot gutter sweeper but it looked like more
trouble than it was worth.

Is there any truly "no maintenance" gutter system out there? A long
motorized auger running the length of the gutter might work. I know the
screens don't work. Stuff catches on them and the water runs right over
them.

--
Bobby G. (an On Topic thread! We're running almost 50% off topic these
days. Where's our statistician? We need to know what the OT signal to
noise ratio is)