Gutter guards,,

jm. · May 9, 2016

Anyone have any positive or negative comments of LEAF GUARD, GUTTER GUARD or anything else that will keep leaves out of gutters. House is surrounded by trees and gutter are a have to thing. Last few years just been cleaning them as needed but the older I get more I am thinking about something else.. Comments please and removing the gutters is not an option.

bo1 · May 9, 2016

Snap in plastic with screen...3' length...comes in white and brown...HD sells them but not brown...I got brown on line....installed 280' about 15-20 years ago and ultimately, the sun ate them up and I just replaced them with same stuff but new. I'm surrounded by oaks and leaves are just a major headache. In spring, the little catkins from the oaks sorta build up on the guards but the wind and rain blows them off.

544hydro · May 9, 2016

We have leaf guard, had them installed 3 years ago. They work good haven't had to touch them ever and we have lots of trees near the house. The bad news is they are expensive.

UncleTom · May 9, 2016

i just use a stihl leaf blower with the gutter attachment pipe. It blows them out and dont need a ladder.

Pete in MD · May 9, 2016

I'll second those plastic screens. Lowe's sells them too, about $2.50 per 3' section.
I put mine on about 12 years ago and they're still working like new.

Janicholson · May 9, 2016

Mesh is reasonable. The brand should be UV resistant to assure life span. One example is Whites 180mm x 8m Super Gutter Guard $11.45
Jim

pete black · May 9, 2016

Plastic for us did not do it, 1st. season they collapsed down into the gutters. replaced with metal mesh ones tat clipped onto the outside edge of the gutter and hinged up for cleaning. Worked ok but the did not lay flat against inside edge and the overlap, therefore leaves got under them and pine needles laid on top of them. on new home i used the style that clipped into the groove on the out edge of the gutter, fastened with screws and then secured by being slipped under the outer layer of shingles. Been 4 seasons now and no problems. Roof angle will have a great effect on any system used.

bo1 · May 9, 2016

I just checked HD website....1.03 plus some shipping. Or, whatever they get in the store.
They snap on to the gutter and slide under the shingles.

Geo-TH,In · May 9, 2016

I've tried about every gutter guard. The only one I now use are sold at lowes and menards. They are 4 ft plastic, with round holes. To keep the maple spinners out of the holes, there is window screen covering the holes. I've never had to clean gutters again. Not sure what they are called, except I call them GREAT. geo.

Duane WI · May 9, 2016

I had the Alcoa Leaf Relief aluminum gutter screens installed a year ago. I needed new gutters anyway so I had the gutter screens installed at the same time. I am very happy with them. My house is pretty exposed to wind so they stay cleaned off. I have mainly hard wood tree leaves. I don't know how well they would work with pine needles. The price was about 1/3 of the gutter helmet type.

Geo-TH,In · May 9, 2016

not sure if mine are 3 or 4 ft long. I may have goofed.

JF in MI · May 9, 2016

We got LeafGuard gutters on the house and barn about 15 years ago (just sold the place). Both buildings were buried in tall trees. Before that I would have to clean them at least 3 times a year. Tried screens, etc. that never worked. Never touched them after the LeafGuard. Expensive but worth every penny.

Pair-a-dice farm · May 9, 2016

I wish I could find some that would work with pine needles. All that I've seen look like hair sticking up after a few days. They may work with leaves but not pine needles.

jm. · May 9, 2016

Thanks for all the replies , think I am going to do something before fall. I have a 40ft man lift so can get up there easy but the drains just keep stopping up. May look at the cheap install it yourself stuff first then if that does not work try something else. Again thanks for all the replies.

Pete in MD · May 9, 2016

Those are the ones I was talking about. I paid about a $1.90. Just guessed they might be up to $2.50 now.

huntingreen2day2 · May 9, 2016

I have Gutter Guards from Nashville Gutter Gard. Love them

Richard G. · May 9, 2016

Our hose is 3000 square feet built by us. No gutters. Liriope where the drip is never clean a gutter.
Richard in NW SC

merlynr · May 9, 2016

If you have maple trees the plastic guards with diamond shaped holes collect the spring helicopters and they stand straight up. I get so many they make the water go over the sides in a normal rain. they are ok for fall leaves though.

Ellis Kinney · May 9, 2016

Google raindrop gutter guard system. In another life I installed continuous aluminum gutters and I have this system installed on my house. No leaves, pine needles or helicopters get hung up in it. Ellis

Ron-MO · May 9, 2016

On a previous house I had the cheap plastic ones, and had trouble with them plugging with the maple helicopters, then sometimes the wind would somehow blow them off into the yard. Honestly, depending on slope of your yard, if it would drain off well, I would rather do without gutters. I know this is not always an option as my shop is like that, and I installed gutter on the uphill side of the shop, but left the downhill side without. The one side needs cleaned out now as a matter of fact as I heard it dripping when I was in the shop earlier tonight and it barely rained today, just enough to have some standing water in it.

Hobo,NC · May 9, 2016

I dunno what I have are called my neighbor is a roofer he said he has them on his house I could not let him out do me so had him install them on my house 4/5 years ago... They work with very little maintenance... They are like a louver the only problem is I am blessed with Live oak's so in the fall I brush off what gets stuck in the louver's and in the spring I brush off the the blooms... It still beats blowing the gutters out...

ss55 · May 9, 2016

My last yard had ash, elm, douglas fir and pondorosa pine trees around the house, something was always clogging those gutters. I tried the plastic covers and the expanded aluminum covers, they were better than nothing but not great. The best solution was adding a gutter cleaning kit to the gas leaf blower (WeedEater brand). With that setup I would clean 150 feet of gutter in about 15 minutes without climbing a ladder. It blew out the downspouts too.

01gentdc · May 9, 2016

this is 40 yrs experience in the home improvement business talking ,.if you were in texas you mite just consider a gutter over your doorway ,, but you probably have a leaky basement and rely on cistern water like I do .With Leaf GUARD You Get What You pay for ,.Andeven if you buy the best it can fail , OF all the call baks we had 9 out of 10 times it was leafguard related ..don't waste your time with screens ,. especially the plastic junk ,avoid the level top leaf guard , in heavy leaves it could become a trough of wetleaves yes leaves should blow off, but they don't always if the wind cant get there directly ,. the best I have found for the money is the waterfall system ,it has served my house for 15 yrs , and it is plastic vinyl , it has 2 rain trough catchers, clips into the gutter and slides under the shingles, if it lays well it did not need to be nailed under the shingles , most time I would bend the plastic in the braketo work with the roof ... . . the ice slides off the leaf guard without taking the gutter off with it 2 ,. but my son says they quit making it.??.that figures!,, so now they have a aluminum leaf screen that is corrugated ,.THAT IS A BIG PLUS , it costs much more than waterfall . fastens to the top rail of gutter with retractable screws or permanent rivets,,only issue besides cost is the tail is not always long enuf to go under the shingles and give the installer confidence, that it will work perfectly on every job ,.. trouble is there are too many peculiar situations,.

Dean Olson · May 9, 2016

I went cheap and bought 1/4" galvanized hardware cloth and cut it to fit. Works fine. I have 50+ year old red oaks around my house. Lots of leaves that now just blow off. It's the stringy pollen strands that fill up the screen in a few areas the wind can't get to.

Wheres Waldo · May 10, 2016

We have the steel ones similar to yours we got at Menard's. Our plastic ones, because we have a big Walnut tree, would get hit by a particularly large walnut and cave into the gutter. The steel ones screw to the gutter edge and they work great. That window screen is a necessity to stop the 'sticks' that the tree puts off each Fall, too.

K Effective · May 10, 2016

We re-roofed and put up new gutters with the addition/remodel back in 2001. A local guy had a die to form one-piece continuous gutters with the lid that rolls into the gutter. Two messy maples and a HUGE catalpa along with all the other debris blowing around, yet the gutters never plug. Could not be happier.

Geo-TH,In · May 10, 2016

I'll check it out next time I am at Menards

Hobo,NC · May 10, 2016

This looks like the ones I have.

http://www.buymbs.com/p-3414-us-alu...vVbenMHZZHN-bK54ry30WHazmfHhshuNWARoC5eTw_wcB

No way I would use one with a screen BTDT...

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