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Does anyone have experience with any devices for cleaning (principally leaves) gutters on a two storey house from ground level i.e. without ladders. Recommendations?
I dunno bout ground level but you could try a small child on a rope dangled from the attic window?.
http://www.theguttervacman.co.uk/default.html
On the Wirral, but probably others around, also i recomend my customers ask their window cleaner, as theyre got ladders and used to working at heights, and a nice little side line for them, as blocked gutters do so much damage.
+1 somafunk. puts their climbing gear to good use.
Darling, would you do anything for me?
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Man and ladder best option. Plus install mesh/chicken wire if ladders is not your comfort zone (speaking from experience here)
Window cleaner here with a triple motor vacuum and long poles for gutter cleaning
Get wca round
A ladder and a hand.
do scouts still do bob-a job-week?
How about the iRobot Looj? The company also makes robots for the military
Get one of them rc quadrocopters and tape a trowel to it !
I use one of these:
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Not as easy to use as it looks though - think of trying to direct a jet engine on the end of a flexible 4m pole and you get the general idea. And the leaves inevitably land in your face as you look up, so those safety glasses aren't there to look cool.
I hear WCA has started his own sideline in gutter clearing, perhaps ask him? 🙂
*edit* Bugger. Beaten to it.
I've heard that window cleaners and gutter cleaning type folk have been known to drop tennis balls and drinks cans down gutter downpipes so they block not long after requiring a further visit. Can then be removed thus magically solving the problem.. told this by a telephone engineer whos pulled a few out over the years apparently.
Being a handyman I get to clean a good few gutters each year. The tennis balls get there via kids playing, er, tennis.
Only ever pulled cans out of gutters on the roads where a lot of yoofs walk back from getting tanked up down the park of a Friday night, could just be coincidence...