Les Jones

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I told my sad, misty-eyed tale of overflowing gutters here. While I was at Home Depot tonight I bought a couple of potential remedies.

The first is some non-perforated gutter guards. I bought just four, for the ends of the gutters. By using them in the ends of the gutters, I'm hoping to keep one side of the downspouts clear. I'm not sold on gutter guards, because in my experience (with the perforated ones that were on the house when I bought it) they don't keep all of the junk out of the gutters, but they do make the gutters harder to clean, and require taking both hands off the ladder.

The second item is the Gutter Pump ("As Seen on TV!"). One end goes into the downspout, and the rest floats, with the water going underneath and into the downspout. The theory being that leaves float to the surface and water flows underneath. I'll let you know how it works.