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Gutter Canes

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good share ryan

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How do you guys use the gutter canes and water the plants all at the same time??

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Clyde, my guys hook a shorter hose (50 ft) to the house then split with a Y it and use longer hoses to get the canes to where they need to be. there is still a guy watering all the time also. 2 canes per truck seems to work good.

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Treasure Coast Roof Cleaning wrote:
Clyde, my guys hook a shorter hose (50 ft) to the house then split with a Y it and use longer hoses to get the canes to where they need to be. there is still a guy watering all the time also. 2 canes per truck seems to work good.

And their is plenty of water pressure to go around??

Thanks Ryan

-- Edited by Roof Cleaning Lanoka Harbor NJ 609-971-6553 on Sunday 24th of April 2011 06:41:08 PM

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Roof Cleaning Lanoka Harbor NJ 609-971-6553 wrote:
Treasure Coast Roof Cleaning wrote:
Clyde, my guys hook a shorter hose (50 ft) to the house then split with a Y it and use longer hoses to get the canes to where they need to be. there is still a guy watering all the time also. 2 canes per truck seems to work good.
And their is plenty of water pressure to go around??
Thanks Ryan

-- Edited by Roof Cleaning Lanoka Harbor NJ 609-971-6553 on Sunday 24th of April 2011 06:41:08 PM

Sometimes the pressure can get a little low but 99% of the time they are fine. if a home has low pressure they just slow down a bit or just use one of the canes

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Treasure Coast Roof Cleaning wrote:
Roof Cleaning Lanoka Harbor NJ 609-971-6553 wrote:

Treasure Coast Roof Cleaning wrote:
Clyde, my guys hook a shorter hose (50 ft) to the house then split with a Y it and use longer hoses to get the canes to where they need to be. there is still a guy watering all the time also. 2 canes per truck seems to work good.
And their is plenty of water pressure to go around??
Thanks Ryan

-- Edited by Roof Cleaning Lanoka Harbor NJ 609-971-6553 on Sunday 24th of April 2011 06:41:08 PM

Sometimes the pressure can get a little low but 99% of the time they are fine. if a home has low pressure they just slow down a bit or just use one of the canes

Ryan so if you use the cane, you don't have to worry about bagging the gutters

-- Edited by Roof Cleaning Lanoka Harbor NJ 609-971-6553 on Sunday 24th of April 2011 06:56:53 PM

gutterdog · Apr 24, 2011

I was a lil lost reading, I started thinking diluting the roof mix at downspouts. What I could use it for. How sloppy is your sprayer? Nick is getting better, and Jeff is back.

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We have not bagged gutters in years. As for spraying? Why would you think the guys are sloppy? Any over spray is watered down by the ground guy. We use the canes to eliminate bagging. I have 2 trucks doing 3+ roofs a day. Bags and or buckets of run off SH add up and and take room up in the trucks. I think everyone does things different but I know plenty of guys that use the cans and dont bag. Maybe they will chime in.

Roof Cleaning Severna Park MD · guest

So you guys just constantly have the gutter cane running and just diluting run off? I'd love to stop bagging, but what if a downspout runs right into a plant bed? Same deal?

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never thought to make my own thanks for sharing

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gutterdog wrote:
I was a lil lost reading, I started thinking diluting the roof mix at downspouts. What I could use it for. How sloppy is your sprayer? Nick is getting better, and Jeff is back.

your lost? Not as lost as I am. Nick is getting better, and Jeff is back, and how sloppy is your sprayer????

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It has been said to have a good look at water pressure. I was working alone once and did not realize my gutter water hose was kinked!

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my guys are not sloppy at all and this method has worked for us for a few years. Everyone does things different as we all know. I posted these pics to show the guys who have talked and asked about the gutter canes not to talk about how sloppy guys spray. Most of the gutters around us go underground and to the front curb. I guess when they were building all of these fancy homes 10-15 years ago they thought it would look better. The cane dilutes it down and keeps it flushed out. It's tough for the ground guys to be watering plants etc. and keep an eye on the run off at the curb.

-- Edited by Treasure Coast Roof Cleaning on Monday 25th of April 2011 02:55:45 PM

Roof Cleaning Severna Park MD · guest

Hey Ryan,

I was asking because I had been dealing with a ton of run off, I was being sloppy. I slowed things down and switched my method for spraying the bottom part of the roof and tried using the method you mentioned here. It was pretty nice NOT having to empty bags and find a spot for them. Then again, we had virtually no run off, so I wasn't too worried.

Thanks for the tip.

gutterdog · Apr 26, 2011

The canes are a good insurance policy. I might try it out. By sloppy I meant spraying too much soap.

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Here's another version if you don't have a heat gun.

Gutter device

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Phil, YES the bags of useless sh suck to load and unload over and over.@Mike, Try them out, they are cheap and may work for ya. @ted, I learned it from a nasa engineer who had a squirrel building nests in his gutters every few weeks so he made one of these and ran it for a few min every night... awesome post though!

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NASA engineer huh? Sooo...it actually took a ROCKET SCIENTIST to design that!!!

Sorry, I had to say it. LOL Jon

Roof Cleaning Raleigh NC · Apr 27, 2011

Treasure Coast Roof Cleaning wrote:
I learned it from a nasa engineer who had a squirrel building nests in his gutters every few weeks so he made one of these and ran it for a few min every night... awesome post though!

WOWZER! In your ads you can truthfully say your equipment is "Space Age Engineering" or "Engineered by NASA!" biggrin

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