Don #39;t neglect your gutters: Hire someone or do-it-yourself
Cleaning gutters isn #39;t a fun chore, but clearing them a regular basis can prolong the life of your gutters and downspouts. Skipping gutter cleaning can lead ...

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A clean gutter is designed to draw water away from a home's foundation, according to Do It Yourself.com. When a gutter overflows with debris, it may also cause roof damage.

A gutter cleaning service may be priced by the square footage of the home, or the linear foot of gutter.Typical costs:

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I had jimmoles cleaning clean out my gutter and power wash my house. Excellent work and very professional. They also offer window cleaning, carpet cleaning, and HOUSE cleaning. I heard from a neighbor who uses them to clean her house and windows that their house and window cleaning service is awesome as well.

This guy is my paralegals husband and he has fixed my whole house up from painting to fixing shingles on roof to the tile floors and wood floors.hes someone i have recommended to friends they can trust in their home.also great for women who dont have a man in the house. Hes worth every penny.all u have to do is call his wife and make an appointment.hes great.Their number is 804-519-7393

Jdh home improvement came and cleaned my gutters and repaired some rotted soffit.He was on time and very professional.I would recomend Jdh home improvement to anyone in rhode island for home improvement.

We have a two story colonial with a garage in Wrentham MA and pay $300.00 for gutter cleaning twice a year and have no gutter or water problems with a 20 year old house.

You get what you pay for. Lowest price is not always the best price.

I had 80 ft of gutters cleaned and a few brackets where it sagged before. Also had the guards put on even though the contractor told me nylon mesh were the worst. He recommended the slotted ones and now I know why. These cheap plastic ones break apart in the gutter but still worked for a year.

My wife and I called Steve from Junk Be Gone to clean our gutters 4 years ago. We will never have anyone else besides them do this. They clean our gutters twice a year because our house is under 2 large maple tree. They hand clean the gutters and place the muck in buckets. There is no mess on the ground after they are done. They flush our system with the garden hose, bang in loose nails, inspect our gutters and roof for leaks/missing shingles. They also sealed a leak we had a couple years ago and its still holds up. They charge us $85 the first year and discounted our price by $5 dollars each year. Our next service will cost $60. We also use them to power wash our house and deck, wash the windows, and snow plow our driveway when we leave for FL in the winter. Steve has a great business that does it all. He's a man of his word and does the work himself. Check out his website at http://www.JunkBEgoneNY.com (make sure you spell it just like this or you will be directed to another site) They are located in Orange County, NY (Chester) 845 313 8212 is Steve Direct phone.

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The City of Pismo Beach has an ample water supply; however, in response to the Governors declaration of a Drought State of Emergency for the State of California, the Pismo Beach City Council voted to declare Moderately Restricted Water Supply Conditions with modified restrictions.

The following restrictions are now in effect: Use of water which results in excessive gutter runoff is prohibited. Outdoor water use for washing vehicles, boats, buildings or other similar uses shall be attended and have hand-controlled watering devices, typically including spring-loaded shutoff nozzles. No water shall be used for cleaning driveways, patios, parking lots, sidewalks, streets, or other such uses except by the City contracted street sweeper, or as found necessary by the city to protect the public health or safety. Outdoor Irrigation. Outdoor irrigation is prohibited between the hours of ten a.m. and four p.m.; All customers are directed to use no more water than necessary to maintain landscaping. Restaurants shall serve drinking water only in response to a specific request by a customer. Use of potable water for compaction or dust control purposes in construction activities is prohibited. (Ord. 90-10 2 (part), 1990: prior code 13.06.040)

Further information can be obtained by calling the Public Works Department at (805) 773-4656.

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A life blighted: Andrew Johnson and an unidentified man inject in Caroline Lane. Photo: Julian Andrews

When a skinny fair-haired child was photographed in a Sydney lane being injected with heroin by an adult man, it broke every parent's heart and sparked a national outcry.

The image is so confronting, it scarcely seems real today. But then this was Sydney in the late 1990s - caught in the grip of a heroin epidemic and suffering from the sorts of policies that included handing free injecting kits to children on the streets.

Enter Andrew Johnson. On January 31, 1999, The Sun-Herald published the shocking image of the 16-year-old shooting up in a syringe-littered gutter, at a taxpayer-funded mobile needle exchange in Caroline Lane, Redfern. The image gave rise to the NSW Drug Summit and 18 months later the first medically supervised injecting room in the English-speaking world was opened. But while Johnson's picture proved a game changer in cleaning up the streets and reducing fatal heroin-related overdoses, did it prove the turning point for him, as his family had hoped?

A fortnight ago, a gaunt, dishevelled seemingly middle-aged man of the same name sat fidgeting and mumbling to himself in Mount Druitt Court, where he faced charges of destroying or damaging property, and stalking or intimidating with intent to cause fear of physical harm. The offences relate to a recent heroin-fuelled episode at the home of his parents.

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This was the boy in the laneway, exactly 15 years on. Homeless and hooked on heroin, aged just 31.

''He's beyond help now,'' his mother, Roseanna, says. ''The police say we would be better off trying to forget we have a son.''

Andrew Johnson leaves Mount Druitt court. Photo: Kate Geraghty

His aunt, Alice Scott, says: ''It's a tragic tale to which, sadly, there is still no end. Like throwing a pebble into a pond, the ripples have just got bigger and bigger.''

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Gutter Cleaning - Polished Plastics

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At 10th and Ferry streets in Easton, Greg Joseph chipped and scraped at stubborn patches of ice on a sidewalk with a long-handled shovel. He dislodged a chunk of gray-brown ice along the mouth of his driveway and pitched it into a puddle of slush along the gutter.

Nearby, a Cadillac sat buried behind a heap of plowed snow along 10th Street, and beneath a thick blanket of snow that fell Monday. Joseph, in an unzipped jacket, Jerry Garcia T-shirt, rubber boots and mustard-color knit hat, lamented this winter's frequent frozen precipitation, but figured he'd carry on.

"What are you going to do?" Joseph said. "You do the best you can."

That was the overriding theme Tuesday in the Lehigh Valley's three cities.

Ol' Man Winter has tossed about 40 inches of snow at the Valley so far this season, about 9 inches more than the average winter and there is a lot more winter to come. In fact, winter's next pass was expected Tuesday night into Wednesday morning with at least several more inches of snow, then freezing rain to join the legion of snow mucking up side roads and back alleys.

Though compacted snow frozen to roads makes the plowing difficult and travel spotty, the main byways in Allentown, Bethlehem and Easton were mostly clear Tuesday. That isn't to say the roads couldn't be better. A good bit of Chew Street, for example, in the area of Muhlenberg College in Allentown, was still snow-covered late Tuesday afternoon.

The avenues in West Bethlehem are a snow-covered mess; parts of downtown Allentown remained ice-bound; and a lack of room to throw the snow made Lehigh Street in Easton into a series of snow bunkers with sawhorses guarding hard-fought parking spots.

Joseph said Easton's plows are doing what they can.

"They do good," Joseph said. "It's a tough, thankless job."

In Bethlehem, Public Works Director Michael Alkhal said this week's short turnaround between storms stresses the city's resources.

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Academy Roofing Does Gutter Cleaning and Broken Tile Replacement
Academy Roofing talks about gutter cleaning and broken roof tile replacement.

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Most Affordable Gutter Cleaning Service in Germantown Maryland!
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Regardless of what type of gutter system you choose, gutters and roofs need maintenance. If you have open rain gutters, they should be cleaned at least twice a year: in the Spring after trees bud, dropping flowers acorns, and seed pods; and in the fall after they drop their leaves. Depending on weather conditions where you live, an additional cleaning or two may also be necessary.

If you also have a low-sloped roof, even a leaf protection system cannot prevent debris from accumulating on your roof, so with or without a leaf protection system, roof maintenance is required. A simple cleaning with a broom or blower is all that is necessary. Plus, loose debris accumulating on the roof is a fire hazard and is extremely bad for the roof, accelerating wear and backing water up under the shingles.

However, cleaning out your gutters and brushing debris from your roof, though an important task, is not an easy one. Climbing and moving ladders and working several feet off the ground can be dangerous. It requires strength and agility to maintain your personal safety, as well as climbing protection systems or devices. If you cannot do this safely, call a contractor or install a system that offers leaf protection. (see our section on Gutter Guards, Gutter Covers and Gutter Screens).

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