On this spectacular day I was on the roof cleaning gutters. Never again. Who has a good system and a good price for gutter helmet type thingamabobs

Here's one man's system. web page

dave-
you can use a roll of screen sized to fit into the gutter or black landscaping perforation pipe cut in half to fit into the gutter.....both of those work ok and will save you money but take some time to install correctly

the systems that you buy do help but they need to be mantained as well, as often the leaves and debris will sit ontop of the gutter guard and still block it up to some extent......

to bad the home show just ended as you could of checked out about ten dozen different systems

the cheapest price to the most acceptable results are the screens....... if ya want the best results available i would recommend buying one of the gutter guardsystem and having a roofer come out to install it rather than having the company install it. i say this for two reasons: the first is price as many of these systems make their money off of the customer on the install more than the product itself... the second reason is that many eaves need extra attention when gutter guards are installed because the leaves sit higher on the roof instead of going into the gutter and this can push water up the roof further causing puddling on the roof itself......

hope this helps a bit....just pm me if ya have any other questions and i can do any installations as well if needed

Dave, I've been using a gas blower for years on the gutters, works great!

Dave, your gutters are pretty high. Was that a ladder job or lying on the roof with toenails clutching cedar shakes?

Snake: It's a ladder job for the most part. The part I hate is going up past my second story picture window. It would be really ugly to go through that.

Nofish: My gutters typically fill with cedar needles. They are usually wet and all stuck togehter. Even if I could somehow blow that mucky stuff out, it would sure make an ugly mess on the house.

Hmmm.....sounds like a clearcuttin' is in your near future..... SOL owes a favor to a logger buddy of ours witha scratch in his truck....