The Gutter Cleaner Georgia Blog

A foundation is the one part of a house you can least afford to get wrong, and water is its greatest enemy. In Georgia, a surprising amount of foundation trouble traces back to a simple, fixable mistake: rainwater that drains too close to the base of the home. The...

Ask anyone in the North Georgia foothills what clogs their gutters and the answer comes back in two words: pine needles. The region's tall pines are everywhere, and their needles have a well-earned reputation for finding their way into every trough and downspout. That...

You can spray the yard, empty the birdbath, and still find yourself swatting mosquitoes every evening on the porch. For a lot of Georgia homeowners, the reason the problem never quite goes away is sitting in a place they never think to check. The gutters along the...

Stand in the driveway, look up at the gutters, and if nothing is sprouting or spilling, it is natural to assume all is well. This quick visual check is how most Georgia homeowners decide their gutters are fine, often for years at a stretch. Unfortunately, it is also...

When a Georgia thunderstorm opens up, most homeowners watching water pour over the edge of their gutters blame the gutters. It is an understandable reaction, since the gutters are the part you can see filling and spilling. The real culprit, more often than not, is...

Most gutter problems announce themselves long before they cause real damage, but only if you know what you are looking at. Three signs in particular tell the story of what is happening inside a Georgia gutter system: a layer of sludge, a scattering of dark grit, and...

Savannah's beauty comes wrapped in moisture. The same warm, heavy air that drapes Spanish moss over the live oaks and keeps the squares lush year-round also settles into every gutter on every home in the city. Most homeowners think about humidity in terms of comfort,...

For a few weeks every spring, Georgia turns yellow. Pollen coats cars, porches, and sidewalks so thoroughly that most homeowners are simply relieved when the haze finally lifts. The trouble is that the end of pollen season is not the end of the pollen, at least not...

Plenty of Georgia homeowners assume a roof with no branches hanging over it is a roof that will never need gutter work. It is one of the most common beliefs we run into, and it usually surfaces right after a heavy rain sends water sheeting over the front porch. A...