The most difficult part of gutter cleaning for me is muscling the
extension ladder around. I use a very expensive, high-tech tool to
extend my reach to about 5 feet on each side.
It's a piece of curtain hanger, the kind for hanging a light weight
curtain about 2" from the wall. After emptying what's at arm's length,
I use the bent end to reach under the hangers and drag the mass of
leaves, acorns, and pine needles close enough to grab.
Then I leave it in the gutter with the end sticking out, which shows me
how far I can move the ladder.
Hope someone else finds this useful,
Liz

On Nov 16, 7:50 am, Liz Megerle wrote:
The most difficult part of gutter cleaning for me is muscling the
extension ladder around. I use a very expensive, high-tech tool to
extend my reach to about 5 feet on each side.
It's a piece of curtain hanger, the kind for hanging a light weight
curtain about 2" from the wall. After emptying what's at arm's length,
I use the bent end to reach under the hangers and drag the mass of
leaves, acorns, and pine needles close enough to grab.
Then I leave it in the gutter with the end sticking out, which shows me
how far I can move the ladder.
Hope someone else finds this useful,
Liz

Thanks for the suggestion...I'll give it a try.

Liz Megerle wrote:

The most difficult part of gutter cleaning for me is muscling the
extension ladder around. I use a very expensive, high-tech tool to
extend my reach to about 5 feet on each side.
It's a piece of curtain hanger, the kind for hanging a light weight
curtain about 2" from the wall. After emptying what's at arm's length,
I use the bent end to reach under the hangers and drag the mass of
leaves, acorns, and pine needles close enough to grab.
Then I leave it in the gutter with the end sticking out, which shows me
how far I can move the ladder.
Hope someone else finds this useful,
Liz

I do something similar. I use one of those cheap, flat snow brushes. It
easily fits under the hangers. I find having the brush on the end helps
drag the small stuff close enough to grab and it cleans the gutter well.

On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:50:57 GMT, Liz Megerle
wrote:

The most difficult part of gutter cleaning for me is muscling the
extension ladder around. I use a very expensive, high-tech tool to
extend my reach to about 5 feet on each side.
-snip-

I've got you beat by 15 feet. g I do mine from the ground. Pool
skimmer pole with shop-vac nozzle duct taped to it.
[Sears has the nozzles for $20.-- #00916935000
- or on Ebay - Buy-it-now $12 - $8 shipping - item #130172816736 ]

I've been using the shop vac blower- but this year I used a fernco
coupler to attach the shopvac hose to my gas-leaf blower.

I have 4 30" hard extensions, and 2 lengths of flex hose to blow
through. I might replace one of the flex hoses and the series of
extensions with some 2" thinwall pipe of some sort and lose the pool
pole. But this works so well I'm not real motivated to try and
improve it.

It cleans the gutters [and a porch roof] of all my maple, oak & long
needle pine.

In the time it used to take to set the ladder up once, I'm done
blowing both 2nd story eaves and a porch roof.

Jim

Liz Megerle wrote in news:Rmg%i.4023$ET.2415
@trndny03:

The most difficult part of gutter cleaning for me is muscling the
extension ladder around. I use a very expensive, high-tech tool to
extend my reach to about 5 feet on each side.
It's a piece of curtain hanger, the kind for hanging a light weight
curtain about 2" from the wall. After emptying what's at arm's length,
I use the bent end to reach under the hangers and drag the mass of
leaves, acorns, and pine needles close enough to grab.
Then I leave it in the gutter with the end sticking out, which shows me
how far I can move the ladder.
Hope someone else finds this useful,
Liz

On low pitch roofs I just get on the roof with a yard blower or pressure
washer. Done in no time. No crap all over you.