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Thread: Gutter Guard Products - Good Idea? Suggestions?

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    If you think leaves are a problem, you should try having Pine Trees around you.
    Those needles hook into everything either singularly or in a group.
    To see what I mean, next time you buy some cherries, leave 2 or 3 of the stalks connected together and see how they hook onto everything.
    When they built the Hospital in town I saw they fitted very wide (100/150mm) but shallow (25mm) gutters to the roof and I have never seen more that a few bits of leaves in them.
    Its only now the area around the Hospital is being built out but its still basically open country in the direction of the prevailing winds which brings in the debris.
    I stand unequivicably behind everything I say , I just dont ever remember saying it !!



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    I've had mine installed on a tile (single story) roof for about three years now.
    My gutters are clean - no residue build up - no more birds in the roof - no more anything

    It seems every time it rains it just flushes everything.

    I'm very happy with the results
    In hindsight I should have posted my Facebook status as: "I've blown the head gasket on my 1997 XR3i" rather than "I've just buggered a 14 year old escort".
    The police still haven't seen the funny side, my lap top's been confiscated and the wife has gone off to her mum's.

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    Ive got similar problems a few gums and lots of leaves ,I usually get up and blow them out when the BOM says rains coming.
    Its not clever to be up on the roof as i get older
    Ive looked at gutter guards ,I dont think they will work,it will just block up higher.
    My valleys get clogged with leaves and they have fall so I imagine the mesh is going to be worse.

    My long term solution will be enclosed gutters

    and keep the holes clean with a blower with a long pipe from the ground .
    Its going to cost more but probably not much more than gutterguard

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