Most homeowners don’t pay attention to water dripping from the bottom of their gutters until they’ve invested in gutter guards. Truth be told, this also happens with wide open gutters without gutter guards. This is often identified by a channel across the ground and evidence of dirt and mulch spattered onto your foundation wall, brick, or siding. It drives some people nuts because if enough water drips from the base of their gutters, it can lead to dirt and mulch erosion. The more water that drips from the gutter guard surface onto the face of your gutters, the dirtier your gutters will become, and the more water you’ll see dripping from the underside of your gutters.īelieve it or not, water dripping from the bottom of gutters is a big concern we hear from homeowners. That could be dirt and organic matter from the roof or sky leaves, pine needles or anything else that will adhere to water. As water transitions from the gutter guard surface or the front lip of the gutter onto the face of the gutter, it will bring with it whatever is in its grasps. The criteria we were looking at for this challenge is how much of the water rolled over the top of the gutter guards, down the face of the gutter and onto the bottom of the gutter. We’re testing 6 popular micro mesh gutter guards from MasterShield, LeafFilter, LeafSolution, Gutter Glove and more. It was hard enough to illustrate how well the systems worked, but it was by no means a downpour. The weather the day we conducted the test was a steady rain. The gutters are positioned next to each other. You’d have to get a good running start to get to the peak of the roof without sliding off. In layman’s terms, the garage roof is a 45-degree angle. That means for every foot in towards the center of the garage, the garage roof rises 12 inches, hence 12/12. As you may have seen in our video series, Ultimate Gutter Guard Challenge 2021, we have installed 9 gutter guards in 12 individual gutters installed on the north and south side of my garage. In an ideal world, every gutter guard would absorb every drop of water that falls from the sky, but that’s simply not possible in most environments.įactors that determine how well a gutter guard will perform in the rain include the roof pitch and shape, how many levels your house has, and how and where upper gutters distribute water onto your roof and into your gutters.įor the purpose of this challenge, our environment is stable and predictable. Sometimes gutter guards do great in the rain, and other times, poorly. There are so many variables that determine how well a gutter guard will perform when it rains, it’s a difficult question to answer unless I’m standing in front of or looking at a picture of your home. I’ll stand under the gutters and observe the leading edge, face and bottom of the gutters to determine how much water moves across the face and onto the bottom of the gutter before it drips to the ground. I’m going to answer question #2, from a slightly different perspective and vantage point. How well will gutter guards keep out leaves and debris from my gutters?.What do you think the top 2 questions we are asked about gutter guards? This article accompanies Episode 5 in the Ultimate Gutter Guard Challenge 2021.
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