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- From: Dmerrill@bnr.ca (Dana Merrill)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house
- Subject: Re: MIND IN THE GUTTER
- Message-ID: <Dmerrill-210193161517@47.140.3.220>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 21:17:40 GMT
- References: <144.169.uupcb@hardgood.com> <1ivakf$bd1@agate.berkeley.edu> <1993Jan14.071653.13940@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
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- In article <1993Jan14.071653.13940@marlin.jcu.edu.au>,
- eeltw@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Lloyd Walker) wrote:
- >
- > In <1ivakf$bd1@agate.berkeley.edu> cnrdean@toxic (Sam Scalise) writes:
- >
- > >Ok. Leaves in gutters are bad. What is a good way to keep them
- > >out? If you use screens, you still have to clean out the gutters
-
-
- >
- > Well this is a common problem in Tropical Aus and I've just replaced the
- > back gutter on my place due to a slack previous owner who let them
- > rust/corrode out. Electrolyte corrosion is big here ie if you have a
- > zinc alume roof you CAN'T have galvanised iron gutters or they corrode
- > (as mine did). Anyway apart from a lot of the inserts you can put in
- > the gutters Monier here in Aus have a "Leafless" gutter system that I
- > decided to fit. It works using surface tension to hold the flowing
- > water in as it passes over a gutter cover. The water is "dragged back
- > "into the gutter while leaves etc just drop over the edge sort of
- > ------
- > )
- > / /
- > --------/
- > Well we're into the wet season and it works absolutely brilliantly and
- > for a 20% premium is top stuff & I don't need to clean it out again.
- > Don't know if it's available in the States or Canada but I thought you
- > might be interested.
- > Lloyd.
- >
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- > ( Lloyd Walker, PhD : Internet: L_Walker@trout.jcu.edu.au )
- > ( Faculty of Engineering : or eeltw@marlin.jcu.edu.au )
- > ( James Cook University of North Qld: )
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-
- They are sold around here and are called "gutter helmet" or something like
- that. I understand that they work very well. I don't know their cost, but
- I will use them the next time I am buying gutters! No more cleaning
- gutters, no more clogged up, overflowing, freezing up gutters!
-
- dam
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- Dana Merrill Bell Northern Research
- DMerrill@BNR.CA Research Triangle Park, NC
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