This is a house near mine that was sold five or six years ago and is now rented out to students. I think five or six years ago was probably the last time the eavestroughs were cleaned. Click on the pic to make it bigger to see what I mean. I could have included this as one of my Gardening posts. Shocking!
But this week I also had to go clean out a neighbour’s eavestrough. This is what I found. Quite the blockage. You need to stay on top of these things. One of these days I’ll be too old to lug a ladder around. There is a service that cleans them out twice a year but that (clearly) isn’t enough. Plus they only clear the troughs and not the downspouts. Which is quite a scam, seeing as it’s the downspouts that get blocked. What a racket.
Alex Good 
Eavestrough = gutters? The student house ones look stuffed, they’ll come off eventually I suppose if they don’t get cleaned out.
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Yeah, I don’t know if eavestroughs is a word that gets used as much in the UK. But it means gutters.
Those troughs probably will be replaced. What always happens with absentee landlords renting out houses to students. They just let them fall apart until they tear them down and put in an office building. Pretty sure that’s what’s going to happen to this place. Unfortunate because it’s close by me and it’s annoying.
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You can also buy things like gutterguards that go over the top of the gutter to keep the leaves out. No idea how well they work though….
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We’ve been looking into them for years. Some people say they work great, other people say they just cause more problems. Plus they can be expensive. But it’s crazy how much any kind of home improvement or reno costs nowadays.
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Yep, makes me glad I live the condo life….
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I live in a condo! We still have to pay for eavestroughs. Just means we all have to chip in. But I have to foot all the bill for my basement.
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Communism at its best, comrade!
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Maybe if you got your mind out of the gutter, you’d have something more interesting to post. just sayin’
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Gutters are an important feature of any home. Somebody has to be thinking about these things.
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