Cleaning your gutters and glass is an unfortunate must for every house: this time-consuming task ensures your home remains clean and well-maintained for a long time to come. However, there are some reasons one may want the experts to tackle this instead:
• Bugs – spiders, bees, wasps, and so much more can set up homes in gutters and window cervices.
• Loose debris – gutters can be full of all sorts of jagged, dirty debris, from branches to brambles to old pieces of the home itself.
• Nails and bolts in drain – gutter drains may be bolted onto surfaces, and with that can come nails or sharp screws should you be fishing around in them.
• Easily-broken glass – older windowpanes are renowned for being easily breakable, especially when repeated pressure is applied to them. The more windows you have to clean, the more chances you take of cracked glass.
• Damaging screens – likewise, window-mounted bug screens can get scraped, torn, bent or more when they’re removed or reinstalled improperly.
• Falling – windows or gutters, when you use a ladder you run risk of injury the higher up you have to reach to clean.
• Uneven terrain for ladders – if you’re climbing on a location where the ground is soft or the ground isn’t perfectly even, there’s a good chance of a tumble
• Scratching neighboring paint – falling isn’t the only risk with ladders, when you brace them on a surface there is a chance of scratching the paint on the outside of your home, one more thing to address.
• Denting or breaking gutter – additionally, leaning the ladder on a gutter to clean it can result in denting or even breaking it.
• Pools of dirty water in gutter – if the gutter is particularly stuffed, you’re risking infection with any stagnant pools of water still sitting within.
