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Pine needles defeat guards that stop leaves

Debris is not one problem. A leaf is broad and flat and lands across an opening, which is easy to design for. A pine needle is thin, stiff, and lands point first. Given a screen with holes big enough to pass water freely, needles find those holes and thread through them, and then they collect underneath where nothing can dislodge them. Worse, they interlock into a mat on top of a coarse screen, and that mat holds every smaller thing that lands on it afterwards. This is why a guard that performs perfectly on one house is a failure two streets away. If there are conifers within reach of the roof, a coarse screen is the wrong product regardless of price, and the choice narrows to a fine mesh where the openings are smaller than the needle diameter. Any honest assessment starts by looking at what is actually going to land on the roof, because the debris decides the product. Choosing the guard first and hoping is how people end up buying twice.