Cleaning Gutters Can Be Fun (No, Really)
Posted in House on April 8th, 2010 by srhuston – Be the first to commentA couple weeks ago, Stephanie and I attempted to clean the gutters. The way I’ve done this the past few years is with a long (but not quite long enough) wand with a hook on the end and a nozzle that directs water to the side in a wide fan. The idea is that the water spray will get under the cruft and just blow it out of the gutters. The truth is that it kinda pushes it whatever direction you want it to go, and then you scoop it out by hand from there. While this wasn’t terrible – you only need the ladder in 1-2 places – it’s horribly time consuming (you have to do small sections at a time), tremendously water wasting, and unbelievably tiresome to hold your arms up over your head for a few hours. Plus it requires that you go up and down the ladder a lot, or have someone stand on the ladder to do the “catching” – difficult to do when someone’s got to watch the kids too. So Sunday night I bought a Looj, and got to play with it Wednesday and Thursday after work for the first time. This could be the start of a beautiful friendship.
