Are there any objective reviews and comparisons of the various types
of these things that are on the market?

My house is surrounded by maple and pine trees and spend a lot of
time on a ladder cleaning out all the various sorts of debris these
things drop all year long.

--
Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN |

http://www.askthebuilder.com/541-Gut...le-Truth.shtml

I have read this site. Who knows..I am in this same dilemma, and have done
nothing to date. Good luck.

Jackie
"Bert Hyman" wrote in message
...
Are there any objective reviews and comparisons of the various types
of these things that are on the market?

My house is surrounded by maple and pine trees and spend a lot of
time on a ladder cleaning out all the various sorts of debris these
things drop all year long.

--
Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN |

Probably no system will eliminate gutter cleaning except the one that
involves removing the gutters and letting the water fall onto a gravel
drainage bed; but I've had no problems as yet with the Gutter Brush system
that I installed last fall. Everything stayed clean during a northern Ohio
fall, winter and, so far, this spring. The house is in an area of mixed
mature trees, but none overhang the roof. No sign of the organic goo
problem, but once the tree seeds are down that could change.

I liked the relatively low cost and very easy installation of the Gutter
Brush and I'm already one gutter cleaning to the good.

TKM

"Jackie Brophy" wrote in message
...
http://www.askthebuilder.com/541-Gut...le-Truth.shtml

I have read this site. Who knows..I am in this same dilemma, and have done
nothing to date. Good luck.

Jackie
"Bert Hyman" wrote in message
...
Are there any objective reviews and comparisons of the various types
of these things that are on the market?

My house is surrounded by maple and pine trees and spend a lot of
time on a ladder cleaning out all the various sorts of debris these
things drop all year long.

--
Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN |

In article ,
"Jackie Brophy" wrote:

http://www.askthebuilder.com/541-Gut...le-Truth.shtml

Thanks for posting this. There's a lot of sense there (just not
necessarily intuitive to ignorant, innocent homeowners like myself).

Cheers,
Kendall

--
Kendall P. Bullen http://www.his.com/~kendall/
kendall@---^^^^^^^

Never e-mail me copies of Usenet postings, please.
I do read the groups to which I post!

In article
,
"TKM" wrote:

The house is in an area of mixed mature trees, but none overhang the roof.

I imagine that helps a lot?

Kendall

--
Kendall P. Bullen http://www.his.com/~kendall/
kendall@---^^^^^^^

Never e-mail me copies of Usenet postings, please.
I do read the groups to which I post!

(Jackie Brophy) wrote in
:

http://www.askthebuilder.com/541-Gut...-Whole-Truth.s
html

This confirms my suspicions. I could never figure out why or how
these things were supposed to work, and now I see that they actually
don't :-)

The guy's analysis of the costs of paying to have the gutters cleaned
is interesting; I wonder if my wife will buy it?

I have read this site. Who knows..I am in this same dilemma, and
have done nothing to date. Good luck.

Jackie
"Bert Hyman" wrote in message
...
Are there any objective reviews and comparisons of the various
types of these things that are on the market?

My house is surrounded by maple and pine trees and spend a lot of
time on a ladder cleaning out all the various sorts of debris
these things drop all year long.




--
Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN |

TKM wrote:
Probably no system will eliminate gutter cleaning except the one that

involves removing the gutters and letting the water fall onto a
gravel
drainage bed;

There's another solution that worked well for me. Try looking under
"Tree Service" in the yellow pages.

(lenny fackler) wrote in
oups.com:

TKM wrote:
Probably no system will eliminate gutter cleaning except the one
that involves removing the gutters and letting the water fall onto
a gravel drainage bed;

There's another solution that worked well for me. Try looking
under "Tree Service" in the yellow pages.

You had all your neighbor's trees cut down?

Sneaky!

--
Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN |

Bert Hyman wrote:
(lenny fackler) wrote in
oups.com:

TKM wrote:
Probably no system will eliminate gutter cleaning except the one
that involves removing the gutters and letting the water fall onto
a gravel drainage bed;

There's another solution that worked well for me. Try looking
under "Tree Service" in the yellow pages.

You had all your neighbor's trees cut down?

Sneaky!

--

Maybe you could still cut the branches over your house? Is that legal?
I don't know but it should be.

(lenny fackler) wrote in
oups.com:


Bert Hyman wrote:
(lenny fackler) wrote in
oups.com:

TKM wrote:
Probably no system will eliminate gutter cleaning except the
one that involves removing the gutters and letting the water
fall onto a gravel drainage bed;

There's another solution that worked well for me. Try looking
under "Tree Service" in the yellow pages.

You had all your neighbor's trees cut down?

Sneaky!


Maybe you could still cut the branches over your house? Is that
legal?
I don't know but it should be.

Assuming you're doing it without your neighbor's consent (or possibly
knowledge), legal (here, anyway), but tricky.

First, all the work has to be done from your property or from a
public street or sidewalk.

Then, you have to be sure there's no actual damage done to the tree.
If you kill it or introduce disease, you've bought additional
trouble.

But last, and probably more important, your neighbor will still be
your neighbor the next day.

--
Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN |

GuttaGard.
I reviewed everything myself when looking for a solution. GuttaGard
works, is cheap, and you can do it yourself.

I have a huge oak right next to my house and two large maples about 30
feet upwind. Maples are in the front, oak is in the back. I used to
have to clean the gutter about every month or two in spring and fall.

I bought the cheap white plastic covers that snap on and I haven't had
to clean my gutters in two years. I was very skeptical when I got
these, but I thought for a $1 each I'd try it. They were easy to
install with a ladder on my story and a half home.

The pine needles may or may not work.