Gutter Guards -- do they work?

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dosferatu - 22 Jul 2008 11:51 GMT

We live on a heavily wooded lot with lots of oak trees, which provide an
abundance of leaves in the fall and masses of spent flowers in the spring,
which clog up the slats in the current gutter guards we have now, which are
of the plastic snap in variety. And inside the gutters a lot of gunk builds
up, which sometimes blocks them (although this may be due to the pitch of
the gutters, causing some standing water).

So we're thinking of new gutters. Two options:

6" gutters and no guards, just clean them out often.

5" gutters and the metal guards that ride up under teh shingles and are
non-removalble. The salesman said if they ever cloged they would come out
and clean them.

Any thoughts?

Thanks.

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Bob Rahe - 22 Jul 2008 15:03 GMT

>We live on a heavily wooded lot with lots of oak trees, which provide an
>abundance of leaves in the fall and masses of spent flowers in the spring,
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>Any thoughts?

If they are 'Gutter Helmets' then yes, absolutely. They are an
add-on to an existing gutter that use surface tension to have water
follow the lip over and into the gutter. Debris falls off.

I had them on my previous house for the last 9 years I was there and
they performed perfectly.

I believe there is a system called "Gutter Guard" which is similar
idea but is a single unit, gutter and cover in one piece. Should work
as well.

The price, however,.... It was about $5-6/ft when I got it back in
the 90's, it's up to about $15/ft around here now.... I was thinking
of putting it on my current house (builder installed screens and
called it "gutter guard" - it ain't, have had to clean out after
only 2 years) but the price is just too high...

HTH,

Bob

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Doug Miller - 22 Jul 2008 19:07 GMT

> The price

[of Gutter Helmets]

>, however,.... It was about $5-6/ft when I got it back in
>the 90's, it's up to about $15/ft around here now.

Thanks for the info -- I called those goofs a couple years ago, and they
refused to give *any* per-foot pricing information over the phone. The only
way I was going to get any kind of price information was by having a salesman
come out to the house, and sit through the entire sales pitch. Told them I
wanted to know if I could afford it first, no point in having a salesman come
out if it's going to be beyond my budget anyway. Made no difference -- gotta
listen to the sales pitch to get pricing. So I told them no thanks.

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