Gutter Cleaning Fairfield Connecticut
The gutter covers have openings large enough for some spruce needles to get into the gutters over time. They run down the roof and some go of the screens and some find there way into the gutters. With the water flow being relativley slow and no pressure, the needles get pushed towards the downspouts but some stops and starts to dam up the outlet. With the size of the screens and spruce trees above the house some needles invariably get into the gutters requiring periodic gutter cleaning.
Clogged Downspouts
To show what is happening here is a picture showing the needles that have flowed with the water down to the down spout opening but does not get flushed out of the system. As this material dries it sticks to the gutter and next time when it rains more material floats to the end and some builds up. Over time with a lot of needles I often find the down spouts completly opening blocked causing overflowing and customers thinking that there gutters are the wrong size for the house. With removing the clog and cleaning the gutters the system will work fine.
Gutter cleaning progress pictures
Here is a slideshow presentation of the gutter cleaning in fairfield. The covers were removed and then the needles leaves and any other deebris was swept out by hand. To make sure the down spouts were clear air from a blower was used to see clear flow of air out the other end of the down spouts. The blower helps to clean what we do not get by hand and then the gutter covers are replaced over the cleaned gutters.