It’s that time of year again when the leaves are starting to fall from trees and straight into your gutters. Perhaps you’ve had a problem previously with water damage resulting from blocked gutters or maybe you’ve just moved into your new home and want to keep it protected.
At times, it can be easy to take the DIY approach, especially when it comes to our homes. Cleaning your gutter may seem like one of the easier household jobs, but you’d be gravely mistaken.
In this guide, we’ll take you through some of the reasons why purchasing a DIY gutter cleaning kit may not be the best idea coming with potential challenges and getting a professional to do the job for you instead.
Top 5 Challenges with DIY Gutter Cleaning Kits
1. Residue
Like with most gutter cleaning tools that DIY homeowners can purchase, extended arms can be used so that you can clean out your gutter without getting the ladder out.
Unfortunately, with a gutter cleaning kit whether it be a blower or cleaning tool, it can be difficult to tell whether you’ve got all of the leaves and grime out. As for many of the larger leaves and heavier bits of debris, they can be difficult to dislodge and take much longer.
2. Heights
The likelihood of you never needing a ladder to clean your gutters is minimal. Indeed, many of the gutter cleaning kits out there will be marketed towards never having to need a ladder again. However, these tools may be great for cleaning now and then with noticeable debris, however, to truly tell if you’ve managed to clean your gutters completely, you’re going to need to get a ladder out and take a look yourself.
This can be extremely dangerous, especially if you’ve got a larger house. Professional gutter cleaners are expertly trained in using ladders safely – so with DIY kits, this can be a big problem.
3. Extension Poles
Some DIY gutter cleaning kits come with extended arms, but many still don’t seem to reach where you need to get to. For those DIY homeowners, you’d think that you could attach your gutter cleaning tool to a long pole, possibly a pool cleaner pole.
However, this method can once again prove dangerous. Not only will you have no idea whether you’re doing a good job or not, but the pole can wobbly considerably when at longer lengths. This makes cleaning hard and you’re setting yourself up for a snapped pole and a gutter cleaning tool falling from the rooftop.
4. Exhaustion
Cleaning your gutters is no easy task, especially if you’re lugging around heavy equipment like blowers or cleaning kits designed especially for gutters. That’s not to mention the actual hard work of using the machinery or your arms to clean out the gutters.
If you do find yourself using a ladder to get up onto your roof, the effort of physically cleaning the gutter is considerable and shouldn’t be taken lightly.
Our team of experts are trained to deal with the best equipment on the market so that they can safely clean your gutters for you without you having the hassle of breaking equipment or falling off of your ladders.
5. Poor Quality
Whilst there are loads of DIY Gutter Cleaning kits out there on the market, most of them are fit for purpose. With those smaller price tags, they can’t do the job as well as professional-grade products.
Investing in a cleaning kit may seem like a great idea at the time. However, you’ll probably find that they produce poor results, and ultimately, you’ll be getting what you paid for. Oftentimes, equipment will be flimsy, brittle, and likely to break in use, especially when dealing with heavier debris.
A Final Note
Your house should be your main priority. At the end of the day, it is where you live. It is where you might work but should always be the place that you can come home to and relax.
You shouldn’t have to think about things like your gutters and what equipment you’re going to need to make sure that you do a great job. The worst that can happen is putting in all that effort and for water to leak both externally and internally because of poorly cleaned gutters., or worse – getting injured in the process.
Enquire today with our professional gutter cleaning services, so that you can have peace of mind knowing that you’re protected both on the inside and outside.
