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Don’t Neglect Your Gutters!

My home is a white two-story one a wooded two acre lot.  Each year the leaves fall off the trees around October and the next month is spent feverishly cleaning out the gutters, removing the leaves, and preparing for the winter season.  The back of our home has a deck and I can barely reach the gutters with my extension ladder.  Unfortunately it doesn’t go high enough to allow me to get onto the roof and, consequently, the front gutters never get cleaned out.  Now I am in the market for some gutter cleaning tools because I just read an article that said my roof could suffer water damage by neglecting to clean out my gutters.  I would rather buy the tools than buy a new roof.