SLUGGER
Senior Member
Pros, cons? Are they worth doing? DIY or professional install?
Pretty sure mine is 9:12 pitch. I'd have to measure and calculate to be 100% sure.Thanks for the info. GoldDot 40, I was wondering about roof pitch being a problem, glad you included that information. Mine is a 9 12 on most of the house and 12 12 on the rest.
That has been my experience for sure. Now that I have a relatively shallow pitch roof, I found it was easier to just take them off permanently and clean out my gutters every year. The guards never caught everything and I always had to take them off to clean out the junk in the gutter that got by them anyway.
I bought and installed InvisaFlow guards all the way around my house. They fit "up to" a 6" gutter. Mine are 5" gutters.
The way they are designed, you're supposed to shove them under the edge of the shingles and the front snaps on the lip of the gutter. The only problem with that is if your roof has a high pitch....the guard follows the contour of the pitch. Water will run off the shingles and across the mesh surface of the guard and hardly any goes into the gutter.
I measured and folded over an inch of the back of each guard so that it fit flat on the gutter instead of at a slope. The water runs into the gutter like its supposed to. As far as keeping leaves, pine needles and twigs out of the gutter....they work as designed.