Milwaukee Gutter Protection: Gutterglove

Rated #1 by Consumer reports for gutter protection

Looking for quality leaf filter protection for your gutters in the Greater Milwaukee area? Call us at Gutterglove Milwaukee (414) 810-8833. We specialize in the installation of high quality gutter guards and ice dam protections.  Our gutter protection stacks up against any gutter protection on the market.

Why Gutter Guards Are a Good Investment

One of the most frustrating parts of preparing for autumn and winter is cleaning out your gutters. If you fail to do this, then you could end up with a serious problem, and even damage to your roof. Clogged up gutters can be dirty and disgusting – and cause problems with ice build up when the weather starts to get cold. If your gutter fills up and rain starts to spill out over the gutter, you could end up with a nasty damp problem.

You can prevent this problem quite easily using gutter guards. There are a lot of different types of Milwaukee gutter guards on the market, but the Gutterglove product is perhaps one of the most well known and the most popular since it can be fitted to a lot of different sizes of gutter.

Gutter guards free you from needing to clean your gutter. They fit over the top of the gutter, and act like a drain cover, filtering out debris so that all that can enter the guttering system is rainwater. These guards are quite unobtrusive, are barely visible from the ground, andwon’t  impair the look of your property at all. They just fit on top of your existing gutter requiring no modification.

Best Gutter Guard & Gutter Protection

You may have read about rainfall gutter guards, waterfall gutter guards, and metal gutter guards.  The stainless steel mesh is fine enough to filter out not just leaves, but also things like pine needles, grit running off the roof, seed pods, and other types of debris. The best gutter guards will be made of a lightweight material such as anodized aluminium – something strong enough to capture the debris but also light enough that it won’t put stress on the gutter system.

Some cheaper guards have a simple, thin support frame – the downside to this is that there is the risk of the frame collapsing, or even if it does hold up it might droop into the gutter, and collect debris itself. If your gutter guard is collecting debris, then it is barely better than the gutter itself collecting it. You need something that will hold its pitch well, that will not droop, and that can be shaped to fit any roof, holding its shape and ensuring that debris always sheds correctly.

Ideally, you want a thickness of around .03 to .1 of an inch, depending on how much debris you are expecting to encounter. Thicker frames are better in general, but are particularly important if you live in an area where you find that your gutters accumulate a lot of leaves, needles and debris throughout the year. You can expect thicker guards to last for a very long time.

The guards support a mesh, which is what will help to ensure that smaller pieces of debris flow away. Look for a high quality stainless steel mesh – something that will not rust over time, even in harsh conditions. Thinner meshes made of more fragile materials are liable to corrode and start pitting and decaying over time.

Are They Worth the Cost?

The experts at HGTV believe that gutter guards are most definitely worth the cost. With gutter guards, you will not need to climb up onto your roof to clean your gutters regularly throughout the year – this saves you time, and reduces the risk of you suffering injury. It also means that you don’t have to worry about the financial cost of repairing your roof if things go wrong. But you should know that gutter guards are not completely maintenance free – you will need to clean them occasionally. The good news is that if you choose the right type, thickness and pitch then you will find that you can go a long time between cleanings, so the maintenance burden will be minimal.

If you are going to buy them, make sure that you get them professionally fitted. This will ensure that you don’t end up with seeds and debris caught in your gutter, requiring more cleaning. A good professional fitting service will install your guards at the same pitch as your roof, ensuring maximum run-off, keeping your gutters clear and free.

If you opt for an ice-preventing gutter guard, choose one with just one cable – that is all you need to melt ice, and it will minimize the amount of power consumed throughout the year. Gutter guards can look expensive, but the total cost of ownership is minimal compared to the effort that they will save you  long term.

Stop Ice Dams As Well!

In addition to stopping a build-up of leaves and debris, a top leaf filter can also stop ice from forming in your gutter. There are high-end gutter guards that are equipped with a single, low energy usage heat cable that will stop ice from forming in the first place – or melt ice that is already there, stopping it from expanding and damaging your gutter.

Look for a gutter guard that has  a strong support frame that can be installed in the kind of gutter you have (not all gutter guards will fit a copper gutter well). An anodized aluminium channel frame will last for a long time and resist corrosion.

Choosing the Right Ice Dam Solution

While general purpose guards will do a decent job, the more specialist Leaf Blaster or Ice Breaker guards have a clear audience of homeowners, and it could be worth choosing one of those specialist models if you live in an area where ice is a problem or there are a lot of falling leaves at certain times of the year.

The LeafBlaster range in particular is interesting because of the unique design which slips under the roof shingles. The guard rests on the top of the roof deck or your tar paper, and clamps the gutter guard in place, keeping it stable. The guard is designed to match the pitch of the roof, ensuring that leaves flow over the top of it, not collecting and causing problems with your gutter.

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