23May 2022
REGULAR GUTTER MAINTENANCE PROGRAM
Having a regular annual gutter maintenance program is essential to keeping your home gutter system undamaged. Making certain that your seamless gutters have no bent areas is one recommendation made by those who help you prepare your house for sale. Clean and well kept seamless gutters contribute to your house’s sale-ability.
The majority of house improvement specialists suggest that you clean your gutters at least once each year. If your seamless gutters are obstructed with debris such as leaves and branches the rain will not run or drain properly. It’s important to make sure that the rain isn’t spilling over the top of your seamless gutter and onto ground. In time this can cause damage to the home’s foundation.
CLEANING GUTTERS AND DOWNPIPES
It is recommended that you clean your gutters in the autumn after all the leaves have fallen from the surrounding trees in preparation for Mandurah’s winter season. While you’re cleaning your gutters you will want to inspect them for any holes or rust through.
Make sure there are no loose nails. Check to make certain the rain gutters are firmly secured to your house.
After you have gotten rid of all the debris from the seamless gutter you’ll want to wash any remaining debris down the rain gutter and into the downpipe with your garden hose. This will also help you to make certain that your downpipe isn’t obstructed with debris. If you find the water not running into the downpipe you can remove the downpipe, clean it and then replace it.
Make sure that the water running out of the downpipe is being correctly diverted with by using a plastic or concrete diverter. You do not want the water emptying out on the ground where it can cause erosion to the house pad.
GUTTER GUARDS
Seamless gutter guards have become popular and do away with the problem of needing to clean your rain gutters, although they will still require an annual inspection.
For a do-it-yourself type installing gutter guards isn’t a huge deal, and, it might save you thousands of dollars over having the rain gutter guards installed by a roofing professional.
Some people think that seamless gutter guards are really pricey and not worth the money. While seamless gutter guards prevent large leaves and branches from getting in the gutter they do not stop much smaller sized natural debris such as seeds, buds, small pieces of bark and twigs or evergreen needles. All this type of natural matter breaks down with time to form debris in your seamless gutter.
Also, this debris can build up over the gutter guard screening that will have to be manually cleaned off. Some have discovered that rain gutter guards really cause them more issues than they are worth. Prevention is better than the cure.