Never Clean Your Gutters AgainGutter Guard Installation in Clive, IA

Spring debris is harder than fall debris

Everyone plans for autumn leaves. The season that actually defeats gutter guards is spring. Trees drop an enormous volume of small material in a few weeks: seed pods, catkins, winged samaras, flower parts, and a fine dust of pollen that coats everything. All of it is small, much of it is sticky, and it arrives when rain is frequent. Small and wet is the hardest combination for any filter. Where a dry leaf sits on top of a mesh and blows away, a wet catkin conforms to the surface and stays, and a layer of them behaves like a felt mat. Pollen fills in whatever gaps remain. A guard that is judged on how it handles November may look excellent and still struggle in May. The characteristics that get you through spring are a surface that sheds rather than absorbs, enough pitch that rain runs off instead of pooling, and mesh openings that stay clear when the material landing on them is measured in millimetres.