How To Clean Your Roof Gutters

This process can be pretty dangerous if you aren t experienced enough but fortunately there are many ways to clean your gutters without climbing on the roof.

How to clean your roof gutters.

Cleaning gutters is one of those tasks many homeowners hate doing mainly because they either have to climb on the roof or use a ladder to do it. Spray the gutters put on your safety glasses and don rubber gloves if your skin is particularly sensitive to cleaners. To remove the gunk from the gutters use a small plastic scoop. Flush out the gutter with water starting at the far end and moving toward the downspout.

Let it run for a minute and ensure that water is coming cleanly through the spout. Once you ve gotten rid of everything that you can collect with your hands and scoop you need to get rid of the finest debris. Fit your garden house with a spray nozzle. On a windy day some of the spray might fly back into your face and you don t want this stuff in your eyes.

If you have an old plastic kitchen spatula that works too and it won t damage the gutters. Turn the nozzle on the bottle to clean. Flush the gutter with a garden hose. Remove the strainers from the downspout and place a garden hose at the opposite end of the gutter.

Gutter scoops are available at the hardware store or a child s sandbox shovel also works just fine. When you ve cleaned as much as you safely can in one spot move the ladder on down and repeat the process with all your gutters.