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I used to think gutter guards were a scam but after cleaning my neighbor's clogged gutters for the 3rd time this spring I bought a set for $150
What convinced me was watching a 20 minute youtube video from a guy in Santa Fe who showed the mesh stopping pine needles during a monsoon and now I'm wondering if anyone here has tried the stainless steel ones vs the plastic kind.
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logan20517d agoMost Upvoted
Honestly that sums up how YouTube became the new word of mouth.
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grace_knight708d ago
Man, I feel this in my bones. I put off buying gutter guards for years because I thought they were just another thing to break and I'm already bad at remembering to change my furnace filter. Bought the cheap plastic ones from a big box store and within a month a squirrel had ripped a corner off trying to build a nest in there. The stainless ones are pricier but my gutters look like a museum exhibit now, totally dry and empty even after a freak hailstorm last June.
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ray18917d ago
Used to think they were a total waste of money, figured water would just find a way around anything you put up there. Then my neighbor spent a whole Saturday on a ladder with a trowel and a hose, cursing up a storm, while I watched that same Santa Fe video you're talking about. The part where he pours a bucket of water on the mesh and it just sheets off clean made me a believer. I got the stainless kind because I have a ton of oak leaves and the plastic ones looked too flimsy for that weight. They've been up for two seasons now and my gutters stay empty, even after a big storm.
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