John Keith writes:

You can buy an attachment for your leaf blower that reaches into the gutters
and blows them out. Sounds interesting. Anybody try these gizmos?

Yeah, blows the crap right on your head.


Wear a hat :-) At least the gunk is not in the gutters.

Maybe I don't clean my gutters enough, but I'd have to throw
the hat out, along with all my clothes.

(No, I'm not going to clean my gutters naked.)

I've had expended metal screens over mine for the past several years
and while they worked early in their life their performance is getting
unaccepable now (I was just up cleaning the other day.) The screen is
getting bent, it is hard to reinsert under the shingles and I'm still
getting a lot of gunk coming in under the screen, which means the
screen needs to be lifted to get to it, which makes its effectiveness
even worse. I'd be willing to try the blower attachment.

I have the screens with similar problems.

My neighbor swears by his system, there is no gutter at all
just these deflectors. The water runs off the roof, hits the
deflectors and the water sprays out over a few feet instead
of dropping directly on the ground.

Leaves fall right thru.