When you boil it right down, your house only has 8 things you REALLY need it to do for you. It might sound simplistic to boil it down like this, but I like to think of it as getting to the first principles of a house.
These dark gray stripes running down the front of gutters due to molecular bonding of pollutants to the aluminum. Here's what to do to get rid of them.
Technically, yes, you can lean an extension ladder directly against a gutter, but I generally wouldn't recommend it. Here's why...
If you don’t have to reach higher than 2 stories, you can hang your Christmas lights from the ground – no ladder needed. Here's what you need to konw.
Yes, you CAN hang holiday lights on gutters with every type of gutter guard. You just have to use slightly different equipment and strategies to hang them.
Hanging Christmas lights on a metal roof requires a different approach and materials when compared to hanging them on more common types of shingle roofs
You need to hang Christmas lights but you don’t have gutters along a portion of your roof. No worries. There are multiple options to hang lights on just about every roof type when you don’t have gutters to clip them onto.
There's no one best way to unclog gutter downspouts, but there are a number of easy options and most of them take MINUTES and cost NOTHING.
Unfortunately, there is no one answer and this one really depends on your specific roof and gutter situation. But here are some things to consider.
Frozen gutters won’t effectively guide water away from your foundation. Ice dams can cause water to back up and damage your house.
The steps you can take to make sure your underground downspouts don't freeze - what you can do when installing and after they're frozen.
If you have a leaking gutter end cap you’ll have to do one or more of three things to fix it: Apply a sealant, Repair it, Replace it. Here's what I did.
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