As a Bellingham WA home inspector, I see this one a lot. I see both sides of the coin: Sellers who have done no maintenance on the home they are selling, to those who have gone all out in their efforts. In the Pacific Northwest we have many trees growing around our homes. Many of those trees shed their leaves about this time of year. When that occurs, the leaves end up in the gutters more often than not. When leaves block a gutter, obviously, not much drainage takes place. This is one, usually quite simple, maintenance problem that the seller could have resolved prior to the home inspection. Now, if the seller cannot get up on a ladder, there are affordable avenues available to get this problem resolved. Put simply: Hire someone. Thanks for stopping by, Steven L. Smith
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Steve,
This will be what my gutters look like soon, I am hoping those leaves stay on the trees for one more week, I'm not ready for the endless raking. Good timely post.
Linda Metallo, Re/max Impact, Lockport, Il
I saw on Facebook that Nutsy spends a lot of time in the gutter. heheh
I recommend metal gutter covers on most of my inspection reports. Problem solved!
I don't mind the leaves as much as the sand and pine needles. Amazing how many shingles shed sand through out the year.
Best thing to do is move to a house with no trees! I look back fondly on our new house when there were no trees around it and the landscaping was new and nice. Hubby thinks a house orta have trees! Now they're big and bothersome.
Hi Steve, we agree. In our old neighborhood this could be a several times a year chore, with the broad-leafed trees going at this time of the year, and the Doug firs going a bit later into winter. John