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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEFvXq15eGE – First video about this in Fall 2021 showing the build… SO simple anyone can do this if they want.
Consider this video and the original one introducing the idea as a VERY basic place to start. Take it as a basic idea and evolve it into something much better and share notes with us! Feels like 1/4″ would be better, 1/8″ might be too much and too flimsy to hold up to snow and ice. Hope the initial ideas shared here help some folks have less work in their life!!!
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Good idea 👍
I had gutter guards professionally installed because I had a large pine dropping needles every year above my garage. The holes in my gutter guards are very small, more of a true mesh. The leaves and needles sheet off of it very nicely now, but I do have to use a broom on it before the snow comes to make sure the funky corner is clear. Your system seems wonderful for leaves and very accessible!
Ragamuffin and lumpadoo! 🤣 Love it! Thanks for the new video. Sounded like those birds really wanted you to bring them some treats! 😁
I made the mistake of putting the expensive leaf guards on the west side of my home where my water catchment system is located. It filled with maple seeds, which of course wanted to sprout. I took them all down and now have gutters full of leaves to clean out. I think I'll reinstall them after cleaning this month, and then plan to clean out in the spring after the maples put off their seeds.
Such a good idea I’m too scared to be getting on my roof. I m 67 I’ve always cleaned my gutters.
Brilliant ! You should write a book on low tech homestead ideas 👏👏👏
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i have polycarbonate on my green house and live in Maine i noticed the snow dose not stay on the polycarbonate thinking somehow incorporating them on my metal roof maybe with a water gutter rain chain. maybe laying the polycarbonate with small holes then metal fencing on top for your house. just a thought. and thank you for sharing your ideas.
What are the gutters made of? If they are aluminum and the hardware cloth is steel, galvanic corrosion will be a problem.
Brilliant! And taking a wild guess from how much they advertise, I think you have saved a bundle over getting "professional" gutter guards (that don't seem to work that well, from what I've read).
Thanks for affordable ideas!