How to Air Clean Gutters - By: Tauqeer Hassan

Cleaning gutters is a part of regular home maintenance and upkeep. But unfortunately, this fact is ignored by majority of the homeowners. At times leaves or dirt block the passage of the gutters allowing water to overflow over the eaves or edges of the gutter causing water to penetrate into the foundation and eventually severe water damage is caused to your basement and walls. Gutters are installed to make a passage for rain water to flow away from the house and hence prevent your house from water damage. It is important to clean your gutters to keep your house safe from water damage. Many methods are used to clean gutters. Here in this article we will talk about air as a cleaning element for gutters.

Required Items

Cleaning gutters is important to prevent any leak. Certain tools and items are needed to clean the gutters with air. Following are given the list of tools and items required to clean gutter with air.

- Bucket
- Gloves
- Safety goggle
- Ladder
- Hardhat
- Garden hose
- Safety line
- Leaf blower

Steps

Some simple steps are given here to help the homeowners to clean their rain gutters with air.

1. Wear safety goggles, gloves and hardhat before starting your work.

2. Set up a ladder against the house reaching the top of the roof. You need a partner to hold the ladder firm while you work on the top. Ask your partner to wear hardhat, gloves and safety eyes goggles to prevent any injury.

3. You need a leaf blower. There are chances that it might slip from your hand, so to prevent it from falling down secure it with a ladder with a safety line. You also need a bucket secured to a ladder.

4. Now secure yourself with a safety harness to the chimney. Turn on the leaf blower while standing on the roof to blow the leaves, dirt and all sort of debris out of the gutter. After blowing, take the tiny leaves and dirt out with hand and put them in a bucket.

5. Take a garden hose and spray water into the gutter with some pressure to remove the rest of the dirt, leaves and other obstructive items. Make sure that the water is flowing through the gutter as well as downspout. If water is not flowing freely through downspout, clean them with drain snake. Again check the water flow.

Points to Remember

- Frequently clean the gutters in spring and fall season.
- You can install screen gutters to prevent the accumulation of leaves or other debris in the gutter.
- If air clean is not possible, use any other method to clean the gutters.

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