Gutter Guards - I need NEW options, please

:) Yep Yep. Did it in the dark tonight prepping for rain tomorrow. Do it probably every 6 weeks. The problem I’m having is these cheapies collapse into the gutter and the gradeau goes down with it.

I use Amerimax home products for mine and never had a problem. I try to clean them every few months, but even at their worst never had a problem with water running over. Every now and then one will collapse from the weight of leaves during a good rain, but not that much of an issue.

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If you cover your gutter with a screen guard, the top will still fill with small shite and clog the holes

Then you have no gutter as the water just runs off the gutter guard.

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This. Had a house with gutters and lots of oaks. You're only changing the clog up point. At least with no guards you don't see the leaves piled up. If the leaves are that bad, your best low maintenance option is to remove gutters and put in rock gutter / french drain.

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I use Amerimax home products for mine and never had a problem.

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Same with me and they have they worked really well, going into year 4, but I don’t have pine trees and I can see where pine needles can be an issue with most gutter guards.

Where you located

My favorite photographs of your homes ...involve the gardens you are growing in your gutters. Due to my creative photography ....you get a nice informative letter from your insurance carrier. "Clean out your gutters or ...we ignore your water damage claims, due to your agricultural creativity. I have yet to see palm trees or corn stalks in gutters. Bet there is a example of each coming in the next week or two.

Go Gutter Helmet and don't look back.

I've had the steel mesh ones for a few years now. If they didn't work, i was going to take the gutters off. They still get clogged from time to time, but i can handle having to clean them out a little bit 2 or 3 times a year.

I really think the best option is to just not have gutters for people that have lots of trees. I'd rather fill the hole in the ground every so often whereever the water is dropping than deal with cleaning gutters constantly.

I had wire guards on my last house, however the holes in the mesh pattern were large. This caused pine needle tips to get stuck so whenever I'd blow the roof off there would be pine needs randomly sticking off the gutters all around the roof line. It annoyed the shite out of me. Get the finest mesh screens you can find.