Clean Those Gutters, SoCal!

Having gutters is wonderful! It means you saved yourself hundreds, possibly thousands, of dollars in repair costs associated with water damage! But you can’t just stick your gutters up on the house and forget about them… You have to maintain them so that they continue to work properly.
Gutters catch water that falls off your roof. Unfortunately, they catch other things that happen to fall off your roof as well, such as trash, leaves, twigs, etc. This debris can clog up your gutters and then when water rolls off your roof into the gutters, it can’t drain down the downspouts the way it’s supposed to. The water then overflows and cascades off the house. This can cause as much damage as it would if there were no gutters to begin with! And if there is enough debris, it can get soaked and heavy, and your gutters can begin sagging. This can throw off the slope of the gutters and even when you remove the debris, they can be bent out of shape and not work properly. In worst-case scenarios, the gutters can rip of the house and fall – which causes damage to anyone or anything underneath them, as well as ruining the fascia boards they were attached to, and clearly the gutters themselves.
For these reasons, you need to be sure your gutters are cleaned at LEAST once a year. If you have many trees around your home that shed a greater amount of leaves and twigs and berries and what-not, you might have to clean them more frequently. If this is the case, you might want to consider getting gutter screens installed as well. Screens easily pop into place over the top of the gutters and allow water in, but block most other debris from getting inside the gutters and backing them up. Screens will not be a magical get-out-of-cleaning-your-gutters-free card. You will still need to pay attention and clear out debris that makes its way past the screening and also anything that might settle on top of and block the screens themselves. It’s a far easier task, but still must be done.
At Prestigious Raingutters, we’ve been working on rain gutters all over the Los Angeles and Ventura Counties for over 25 years. We can help you install screens on your gutters in LA and the Valley. We can also help you clean them! We are fully licensed and insured and we give free estimates. Give us a call today! 1-800-993-1193