January 24, 2012 12:25pm by Team | 
This winter has been great so far! My gutters have really appreciated it! Last year we were plagued with massive ice dams that had water dripping inside windows and into bedrooms. As a last ditch effort to deal with those dams last year I went out an bought a length of gutter heating cable and [...]
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We woke up this morning to a strange burnt oily smell in the basement. Years ago we had some trouble with our oil fired water heater and this presented itself as the first possible explanation… though the smell didn’t seem quite right. I checked the oil tank and saw that it was low. Hmmm… [...] You guys may know that I’m a fan of Do It Yourself gutter guards. A few years ago I posted about the success I’ve had with the American Plastics gutter guards that you can buy at Home Depot and other home stores. They aren’t perfect, but they are an incredibly economical solution to the [...] Here in the NorthEast the weather has been wet while interspersed with bright sunny days. Perfect ant weather. I was outside the house two days ago doing various tasks when I started noticing all of the pavement ants on our walkways. Some people call these sugar ants. They are the very small ants that [...] Here’s a video we came across on YouTube where This Old House does a tiny review… overview… really of some unnamed gutter systems. I have a few problems with this video. It sounds like they are all half asleep, especially the host. Their “test” of the various systems is ridiculous at best. They seem [...] Here in Connecticut it was a rough winter for gutters. We had massive ice dams on a section of roof line that has experienced them in the past. Everybody else had them too. There were a couple of days in February where it was a “perfect storm” for ice dams in our area. Luckily [...] I would not recommend removing ice dams using a chain saw. I guess these guys felt that extreme circumstances call for extreme measures! The better way to remove (or prevent) ice dams is with roof and gutter heating cable. Don’t try this at home! And turn off your speakers because the music in this [...] Ugh, this was the winter of the ice dams. My gutters along one stretch of my roof definitely sustained some damage this winter. This is an older section of the roof where the sharply pitched roof was dormered in the late 70s to create more room upstairs. This reduced the pitch of the roof [...] We have previously reported our excellent experience with the DIY style of gutter guards sold by Home Depot and other home improvement stores. They are an attractive option for those home owners (us!) who balk at arbitrarily enormous price tags for professional gutter guard systems.
Cheap and Effective from Amerimax We’ve had our [...] Does anybody use a Gutter Scoop? In the past I’ve always cleaned gutters by hand and by moving the ladder down the length of the house. Gutter Scoops promise to reduce the need to move your ladder so often… but how well do they really work? Here is on model that actually gets good [...] |
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