Cleaning the gutter is another one of those chores that nobody really likes to do but you’ve got to do it. A clogged gutter can mean sagging which will allow water to get behind the gutter, damage the fascia to soft it, worst case scenario you could suffer some foundation damage and that can mean thousands of dollars of repairs.
So you got to get up there and clean them out. It’s really very simple. First of all, you want to start it in closes to a downspout and then remove all of the debris. Now you can use simple garden trowel like this or nifty little scoop that I made out of an old jug. What you want to do is get all of the trash out of the gutter and instead of throwing it on the ground I put a garbage sack onto my ladder so I can put it right in there.
And by the way instead of throwing it away this makes excellent material for a compose pile. Once everything is cleaned out you want to take your garden hose, spray it down and make sure that you got good flow going down in to the downspout. You may have a clogged in there which means you have to get a plumbing snake to get that loose. Sometimes just the water will do it. It will loosen it up.
So next time, cleaning the gutters is on your chore list just make sure you get up there and do it.
