CBR Gutter Cleaning Canberra
Gutter Cleaners Canberra
How often do we really think about our gutters, and, more particularly, how often do we think about cleaning them? It’s probably a safe bet if the answer is ‘rarely’ to ‘never’. Usually, the only time we think about our them is when they aren’t working properly, because either they’re broken or loose, or there’s been a storm deluge and the gutters can’t handle the flow of the water.
However, thinking about them before they become a problem, and then cleaning them, is one of the best ways to ensure your gutters don’t have a problem.
Overall, gutters are very simple things. All they do is make sure water doesn’t hang around. That’s it – they move water from the roof to the drains. It’s when they don’t do that, that they begin to break down, fail and cause potential problems elsewhere on your property, too.
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The water from your roof is not supposed to pool around, but when your gutters are clogged and blocked with dirt, debris, mud, leaves and all manner of vegetation and other things, that is precisely what water will do. If the water can’t get to the drainage pipe, it will just pool, and pooling water can damage your roof.
Over time, water causes metal to rust and wood to rot. On your roof, this might cause your roof to leak, allowing water inside. Other than requiring an expensive roof repair, this leak can also allow in disease carrying insects, as pooling water attracts mosquitoes and other insects.
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Water-saturated mud, debris and vegetation is also heavy; this can cause problems on your roof, as well as your gutters, which aren’t designed to support the weight. Blocked gutters also might mean that water that fills up and flows over your gutter, cascades down your walls and pools at your foundations. This could lead to dirty water-streaked walls, but also mould and mildew at your foundations.
CBR Gutter Cleaning Canberra provides a gutter cleaning service that you can schedule regularly, even before your gutters become a problem.
However, between scheduled appointments, there are a few signs that can give you some hints that your gutters are becoming clogged:
- Check that your gutters are sitting right. If they are sagging, this could be because they are carrying a lot of weight, such as water-saturated mud and vegetation, that needs to be removed.
- Also, check for mildew, rust and mould near your roof and around your foundations. As specified before, a blocked gutter could be causing water to overflow, leading to cascading water down your walls. Over time, this may cause the issues mentioned; mildew, rust and mould.
- Can you see grass, plants or flowers growing from within your gutters? Like all other types of grass, plants and flowers, they need water and soil to grow. If they’re growing up there, that means there is enough water and soil in the blockage to support them.
- Are your gutters particularly popular to birds, insects or rodents? Birds, nesting birds in particular, will see a blocked up gutter full of leaves, twigs and vegetation as a home improvement store, a place where they can get nesting materials. Rodents see the dirt and vegetation as comforting and warm, and a safe place to shelter from predators. While insects like mosquitoes, are attracted to standing pools of water. If you are seeing these things flocking to your gutters, something is attracting them.
Gutter cleaning seems like a fairly simple job – perhaps not exactly a fun job, but a simple one. Go up a ladder, scoop out vegetation, dirt, mud and whatever else, clean the gutter, and come back down the ladder. But it’s deceptively risky. Unless you are experienced working on ladders, it can be a hazard. Unless you know precisely where to place a ladder, so that your contact point can support the weight, you are at risk. Placing a ladder against a gutter that we know to be blocked and therefore possibly structurally compromised, is a risk.
It only takes a fall from a few feet to be dangerous, and every year, 20 people in Australia, die from ladder related accidents. That doesn’t have to be you.
So give us a call today, and we’ll get you a free quote. Or, you can put your contact details in the form above, and our gutter cleaners Canberra contractors will be sure to reach out to you as soon as possible.
Please note: these services are available to commercial and corporate businesses also.
Water-saturated mud, debris and vegetation is also heavy; this can cause problems on your roof, as well as your gutters, which aren’t designed to support the weight. Blocked gutters also might mean that water that fills up and flows over your gutter, cascades down your walls and pools at your foundations. This could lead to dirty water-streaked walls, but also mould and mildew at your foundations.
CBR Gutter Cleaning Canberra provides a gutter cleaning service that you can schedule regularly, even before your gutters become a problem.
However, between scheduled appointments, there are a few signs that can give you some hints that your gutters are becoming clogged: