11-18-2013, 02:26 PM
cbelt3 wrote:
[quote=Ammo]
I spent a couple of hours yesterday cleaning out the gutters. It's an old debate: install gutter covers and have heavy rains run right over them and down the facia, or keep the gutters open and clean them twice a year. :dunno:
I am considering a friend's approach.... he installed commercial sized gutters on his house, and commercial sized downspouts. At the bottom he installed a deep "Y" cleanout and a screen that catches the leaves that flow down.
I tried this.
They are just larger scoops.
They just hold more leaves and the larger oak leaves are even more prone get caught in the downspout bends, freezing and damming.
I've got those wire cage/fence things in the gutter holes to keep leaves from going down the tubes.
I figured with huge tubes everything would just slide down.
It doesn't.