How to clean your gutters

9/18/2017 (Permalink)

Dirty Gutters?

Cleaning Your Gutters to Avoid Flooding

Take action to keep downspouts running freely before those shade trees start shedding in earnest. One of these guards won’t totally free you of ladder duty, but it could buy you time between checkups.

How to Clean your gutters:

1. Climb a ladder and use a variety of tools to grab and remove the leaves and debris at eye-level.

2. Attach tools to a wet/dry shop vac to suck up the leaves or to blast them out of the gutters.

3. Attach tools to your water hose to spray leaves out of the gutters.

4. Use a long-reaching pole to remove leaves from the gutters while standing at ground level.

Removing the debris from your gutters is important to help your home during heavy rains. Flooding can be mitigated by the gutters being clear for water to flow freely from your rooftop.