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Gutter cleaning - preferred method?
« on: November 20, 2009, 03:29:18 pm »
Hi all

At the moment I am up a ladder scraping the crud towards me with a drainage rod gutter scraper then flushing out with clean water. I think this is time consuming. Investing in a gutter vac might be a bit uneconomical for the amount of gutter jobs I do. Upon saying that I wouldnt mind doing more in the Spring and Summer months!

I own a pressure washer and you can buy the gutter attachment and telescopic lance for gutter work but am a little worried about the high pressure and dirt flying everywhere!! Does anyone use one of these systems?

Many thanks for your input!

John

GWCS

Re: Gutter cleaning - preferred method?
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2009, 05:27:48 pm »
Hi all

At the moment I am up a ladder scraping the crud towards me with a drainage rod gutter scraper then flushing out with clean water. I think this is time consuming. Investing in a gutter vac might be a bit uneconomical for the amount of gutter jobs I do. Upon saying that I wouldnt mind doing more in the Spring and Summer months!

I own a pressure washer and you can buy the gutter attachment and telescopic lance for gutter work but am a little worried about the high pressure and dirt flying everywhere!! Does anyone use one of these systems?

Many thanks for your input!

John

done it once never again!

ended up having to spray the building to get the crud off the walls, had to sweep up all sort of crud that went on the floor and got totally covered in crud myself.

and clean the windows too  >:(

trevor perry

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Re: Gutter cleaning - preferred method?
« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2009, 06:45:01 pm »
Hi all

At the moment I am up a ladder scraping the crud towards me with a drainage rod gutter scraper then flushing out with clean water. I think this is time consuming. Investing in a gutter vac might be a bit uneconomical for the amount of gutter jobs I do. Upon saying that I wouldnt mind doing more in the Spring and Summer months!

I own a pressure washer and you can buy the gutter attachment and telescopic lance for gutter work but am a little worried about the high pressure and dirt flying everywhere!! Does anyone use one of these systems?

Many thanks for your input!

John
instead of using high pressure nozzle just use a rinse nozzle my machine is 21 litre a minute so with a rinse nozzle attached it blows everything to downspout without any mess, the only time i attach the high pressure nozzle is to unblock any downspouts.
better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove any doubt

drive surgeon

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Re: Gutter cleaning - preferred method?
« Reply #3 on: November 22, 2009, 09:01:29 pm »
gutter vac.

JSMC

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Re: Gutter cleaning - preferred method?
« Reply #4 on: November 23, 2009, 09:03:49 pm »
Hi all

At the moment I am up a ladder scraping the crud towards me with a drainage rod gutter scraper then flushing out with clean water. I think this is time consuming. Investing in a gutter vac might be a bit uneconomical for the amount of gutter jobs I do. Upon saying that I wouldnt mind doing more in the Spring and Summer months!

I own a pressure washer and you can buy the gutter attachment and telescopic lance for gutter work but am a little worried about the high pressure and dirt flying everywhere!! Does anyone use one of these systems?

Many thanks for your input!

John
instead of using high pressure nozzle just use a rinse nozzle my machine is 21 litre a minute so with a rinse nozzle attached it blows everything to downspout without any mess, the only time i attach the high pressure nozzle is to unblock any downspouts.

what size nozzle then? 45?