How to clean two-story gutters from the ground
Telescopic tools allow you to remove leaves and heavy "biogunk" without the danger of climbing a two-story roof. A reliable ground-level tool is essential for homes with mature trees that dump pounds of dirt into gutters between yearly professional cleanings.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Hiring professional cleaners yearly
- 2Installing gutter guards
- 3having someone come out to clean them
- 4replacing them entirely
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“My house is 2+ stories (partial walkout basement) so I'm not getting on the roof, but we have a lot of mature trees. We have the gutters cleaned yearly but they need it more often. Are there any GOOD telescopic tools to get the leaves out from the ground?”source ↗
Where this came up
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