Wooded lots fill gutters fast around Greers Ferry Lake. We pull the oak leaves, pine needles, and packed grit out of the gutters and downspouts, and the whole load leaves with us.
Property around Greers Ferry Lake sits under oak, hickory, pine, and sweetgum, and every one of them drops something. Autumn is the heavy stretch, when oak and hickory leaves land in the trough faster than rain can move them. Then the pines keep shedding needles through winter, and sweetgum pods and spring seed keep coming after that. A gutter that was clear in November is rarely still clear by March.
The trouble is that a blocked gutter does not look broken from the ground. You find out in the next hard rain, when water sheets over the front edge instead of running out the downspout — straight down the fascia, down the siding, and into the ground at the base of the wall.
We are already up on roofs around the lake for roof cleaning and working the exterior for house washing, so clearing the gutters while we are there is the easy part of the trip. It is part of the same seasonal leaf removal and yard cleanup work we do through the autumn.
Gutters, downspouts, and the debris off your property in the same trip.
Leaves, needles, grit, and the packed sludge at the bottom of the trough pulled out by hand rather than blown across your roof and down into the beds.
A gutter is only as good as the pipe at the end of it. We check the downspouts actually run, because a packed one is usually where the blockage has been hiding.
Nothing is bagged at the curb or tipped into the tree line at the back of the lot. What comes out of the gutters goes on the truck.
None of this shows up the day the gutter blocks. It shows up a season later.
Water going over the edge runs down the board the gutter is hung on. Held there through a wet season, that is how fascia and soffit start to go soft.
Overflow carries grit and tannin from rotting leaves down the wall, and it leaves a stain that a quick rinse will not lift.
When a cold snap lands on a gutter packed with wet debris, meltwater has nowhere to run and backs up at the roof edge instead of draining away.
Gutter clearing for the wooded lake communities and towns around Fairfield Bay.
Christian Olson has been working roofs and exteriors around this lake for seven years, and the standard on a gutter visit is the same as every other job: your property gets protected before the work starts, not apologised for afterwards. Debris comes down with us rather than being raked onto the roof or dropped into the planting beds below, and anything we would normally mask on a house wash — outlets, fixtures, and vents — still gets masked if we are working near it. Every property is different, so we look at yours and adjust rather than running the same routine everywhere.
Most wooded lots here do well on two visits a year. One after the oak and hickory have finished dropping in late autumn, and one in spring once the pines and sweetgums have had their turn. A lot with little tree cover over it can often go longer. Send a couple of photos and we will tell you honestly what yours needs rather than sell you a schedule.
Watch them in the next hard rain. If water runs over the front edge instead of out the downspout, they are blocked. The other giveaways are plants growing out of the trough, a gutter that sags between its hangers, and a dirty streak down the siding under one particular spot.
Yes, and it matters more than the trough does. Clearing the gutter and leaving a packed downspout just moves the problem along a few feet, so we check that the water actually runs through and out.
Yes, and that is the cheapest way to have it done. If we are already on the roof for a roof clean, or working the exterior for a house wash, the gutters are right there. Mention it when you send your photos and we will price it as part of the same trip.
It leaves with us. Nothing is left bagged at the curb, and nothing is tipped over the back of the lot into the trees.
Send a couple of photos of the house and we will come back with a fair price to clear the gutters and downspouts and haul the debris off — no appointment, and no truck rolled just to look at it.
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