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Do you find your property needs gutter cleaning too often? Gutter guards are the solution!

We highly recommend you get a gutter protection system installed on either your existing or new gutters.  We offer multiple options to fit everyone’s budget.

Keep reading to learn more, ask us any questions you might have, and do your own-research if you are considering hiring a national company as they often monopolize sales and have lawsuits, shady tactics, and unethical representatives.

There are numerous options for material, design, brand, and colors.  We won’t lie – many of them will cause more damage than good… but as professionals, we only recommend durable materials and effective designs.

The gutter guards that we recommend help you protect your property and family by:

  • Keeping pests out
  • Preventing clogs due to leaves, roof grit, and other debris
  • Reducing the cleaning frequency and cost

Our Recommendations

Some micro-mesh guards come with a slotted frame underneath, but not the LeafBlaster Pro that we use.  In our experience, a few brands tend to clog with pollen, like it’s the case with Gutterglove.  We have been using LeafBlaster Pro brand for hundreds of clients over the years without any report of such problems.

Advantages:

  • Only design that protects against pine needles and roof grit
  • Stainless steel offers better corrosion resistance than aluminum
  • Durable

  • Secured with screws to the front lip of the gutter

  • Compatible with copper gutters

  • Most dry debris blows off with a slight breeze

Disadvantages:

  • Expensive
  • Does not properly collect water from roof valleys.  When installing these at a property, we often use Mesh gutter guards for the valleys

Aluminum screens with perforated holes.  We usually install the “wavy” type but there are flat ones as well.  Some brands are GutterRx, Shur Flo, Senox Eave N Flow or Smart Flow, LeafTek, PlyGem Leaf Relief

Advantages:

  • Durable
  • Made of rust-resistant aluminum
  • Slides under shingles
  • Secured with screws to the front lip of the gutter, and sometimes to the back
  • Almost invisible from the ground
  • Most dry debris blows off with a slight breeze
  • Available in different colors
  • Affordable

Disadvantages:

  • Does NOT protect against pine needles or roof grits

Some brands are Spectra Armour Lock, Amerimax, and Senox Roll Lock, Step Lock or Flat Lock


Advantages:

  • Made of rust-resistant steel, aluminum, or copper
  • “Lock-in” installation: slides under the first row of shingles and locks to the front lip of the gutter.  Sometimes we reinforce them with screws.
  • Affordable
  • Properly collects water from roof valleys (often paired with Micro-Mesh installed on rest of the property)
  • Best fit for Half-Round gutters
  • Compatible with copper gutters
  • Almost invisible from the ground

Disadvantages:

  • Does not protect against small leaves, sticks, pine needles, or roof grit

Also called gutter helmets.  They resemble caps that sit atop the gutters.  We use LeaFree brand.

Advantages:

  •  Only design that can be reused when upgrading from 5″ to 6″ gutters
  • Slides between starter shingles and standard shingles, eliminating the need for drip edge because it prevents water from going behind the gutter
  • Secured with screws to the front lip of the gutter
  • Available in different colors

Disadvantages:

  • Does not properly collect water from some roof designs
  • Visible from the ground
  • Expensive
  • Difficult installation
Stay Away From

GutterBrush: Trap debris, require frequent cleanings, have an unpleasing aesthetic look, and are not durable.

GutterFoam: Prone to growing vegetation, and deteriorates very quickly.

LeafFilter: Monopolized sales, unethically overprices, does not perform as advertised.

LeafGuard: Monopolized sales, unethically overpriced, one-piece system extremely difficult and costly to clean

Vinyl and Plastic: Weak and prone to cracking, warping, and bending.