Enough of COVID...what are you doing to the house?

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backmarkerducati said:
Which ones did you have put on, we are looking?

We had a guy that would come every November and clean them for $50, he didn't come by last year... fate unknown.
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Had it done when we had eavestroughs replaced so not sure of the brand. Definitely recommend it though. We have a pine tree right next to one roof and before this they would clog all the time. I saw some in Costco a while back that looked identical and also quite cheap.
 
KLR Junkie said:
My parents had gutter guards installed 3 years ago (no idea what brand). That winter they had massive ice damming and 8 ft long icicles dangling over the entry door for the first time in 35 years at that house. They removed the guards and sold them to someone local on marketplace for about 20% of the purchase price. About a year later they ran into the guy in a store and he told them that he'd had ice damming problems with the guards and sold them to someone else after 1 winter. I guess whether they are effective or not depends on the precise situation (guard shape, roof slope, type/amount of debris, etc).

FWIW, my 75 year old dad now uses a long hooked wand for the pressure washer to blast out the gutters on their 2 story house every fall. Messy but fun, apparently. And no ladders, which is a plus.
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I don't mind doing the lower eaves on our side split, but the upper ones test my courage. It's about a 16 foot drop to hard stuff. Making it worse, when they installed the new shingles they let the lower edges of the shingle protrude too far over the edge, blocking half of the eaves trough.

I haven't been up on the roof lately and I hope the hot summer has softened the shingle edges and let them droop into the troughs. We also lost a big maple so fewer leaves.
 
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