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Yorkie · Premium Member Roof Cleaning Institute of America

A question of cleaning Gutters ( insides )

Roof Cleaning West Chester PA · Premium Member Roof Cleaning Institute of America

I just ordered a gutter rake, I know the guys were using them with success last season.

Maverick Contracting · Premium Member Roof Cleaning Institute of America

Check this out, a robot that does it for you and it only costs $299.00

http://store.irobot.com/product/index.jsp?productId=13081876

gutterdog · Oct 14, 2012

Pine needles are the hardest to blow out.

Roof Cleaning New Jersey · Oct 14, 2012

I use a zero tip w/ 8gpm. What a mess.

Maverick Contracting · Premium Member Roof Cleaning Institute of America

Like Ed, I usually powerwash them out but we also have a lot of pineneedles and they don't come out well even with a PW as Mike said, the stream after a few feet just lifts them up into a intertwined mesh filter and the water doesnt have enough surface area to push them out. I have tried with a little better success snaking a lenght of hose down the gutterline on full flow for hard to reach areas. finding flow works better than pressure with needles.

Would love to try the bot out or better yet have someone else try it before I buy smile

jcstomper · Oct 14, 2012

Roof Cleaning New Jersey wrote:
I use a zero tip w/ 8gpm. What a mess.

exactly. i use our PW with our soft wash tip.. start on one end and just blow them down towards the drain.. in about 2 ladder movements your clean.

Nick · Guest

have you tried the Robot and is their any downfalls to it?

sweetwaterfish · Guest

Check the reviews online about the robot, horrible horrible reviews. also look on eBay for them. you can get them much cheaper than the list price of 299.

Simon, those gutters that join the pool screen to the house are typically pretty sturdy, you can put some weight on them. For real impacted stuff that won't come out with a blower we will either use our 8 gallon a minute booster pump, or will take a toilet brush and tape it to the end of one of our push polls and push the stuff out.

It's a nasty job and Florida gutters get real funky, but hey that's why they pay us the big bucks

Eric SCHNAIBLE · Oct 15, 2012

Some of you may benefit from adding micro mesh gutter guards to your such stick.
It's big in the east, lucrative too. Pm if you'd like a short cut to making it work as an add on.

Yorkie · Premium Member Roof Cleaning Institute of America

Thanks for all the tips lads awesome

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