At Home In The Woods

[Obed]

After cleaning the gutters on the rental house, I was able to start cleaning the gutters on our residence in the woods. I really do love the ladder levelers (bottom of ladder) and the ladder stabilizer (top of ladder).



I still have more gutters on our house left to clean out.

 

[Coyote machine]

Coyote,
Here are pictures of the one of the gutter guards on the rental house. They did a reasonably good job of keeping leaves out of the gutters. However, they tended to keep the leaves from sliding off the roof. The leaves would get caught on top of the gutter guards and then pile up on the roof.

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Obed,
did you look at the link I provided as to actual gutter guards? What your rental has is leaf screens, which are about as effective as you described. Man, you may like cleaning all your house gutters on a 40' ladder, but if it were my house I'd want to eliminate that job forever. It's dangerous and gets old real fast. A small investment in a good product can and will save a lot of time, effort, and potential ladder mishaps. I try to choose acceptable/ manageable risk by factoring in what the consequences are to my family if I were to be hurt or worse. I'd personally prefer juggling running chainsaws than hanging off a 40' ladder to clean leaves out of a gutter. :2cents:

 

[Obed]

Coyote,
I'm not in the market for new gutter guards for the rental house. We get a lot of the oak "fuzz" in this area. I haven't talked to anyone near here with lots of oaks who never has to clean out their gutters, even with gutter guards. If you have clean out the gutters anyway, the gutter guards seem to make the cleaning job harder and slower.
Obed

 

[Obed]

O Happy Day!
We moved into the house 3 years ago this month. My wife has been able to park her car in the garage since day one. The other side of the garage has been filled with lumber left over from building the back porch and deck. So for 3 winters I have been scraping my car windows in the mornings. One morning this week, the latch of my car door was frozen which prevented me from being able to latch the door shut. So I ended up driving another vehicle.

Today my wife indicated she thought that she could arrange the lumber in the garage in such a way that we could fit my car inside the garage. So we rearranged and cleaned out the garage. Lo and behold my car is now in the garage!



Tonight an inch of snow is forcasted and temps close to 0F are expected this week. I can look forward to not scraping the windows and being able to get into a warm car now. Yay! I've never before had a garage where I could park my car.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Sure is nice getting them in out of the weather. I think today is the first time I have ever parked 2 vehicles in my 2 car garage. Had to park one on an angle to get past the radial arm saw and shelving, but got two in. Also over the holidays I got garage door openers working on both doors.

 

[Beltman60]

Obed

looks like you have enough room to get 3 cars in there
you should see my garage
I wish it was that clean and organized

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Obed

looks like you have enough room to get 3 cars in there
you should see my garage
I wish it was that clean and organized

Ditto.

 

[clemsonfor]

Wow your girl is big!! i see her playing in the car in one of those pics!

Bet you will ahve that fire cranking tonight and tomorrow.

 

[Obed]

Sure is nice getting them in out of the weather. I think today is the first time I have ever parked 2 vehicles in my 2 car garage. Had to park one on an angle to get past the radial arm saw and shelving, but got two in. Also over the holidays I got garage door openers working on both doors.

Yes it is! This morning I could see an extra car we had parked outside covered in snow. But I was able to get into my car sitting IN the garage and just drive to work. No scraping snow and ice. No warming up the car. I wasn't cold the first 5 minutes of the drive.

I will enjoy finally being able to park my car out of the weather.

Obed

 

[Obed]

Obed

looks like you have enough room to get 3 cars in there
you should see my garage
I wish it was that clean and organized

Beltman60,
Our garage wasn't "clean and organized" for the 3 years we've lived in the house until yesterday. For a 2 car garage it is oversized. But it is not quite large enough for 3 cars. It is unlikely we would ever park 3 cars in it anyway.
We like the extra space in the garage for freezer, 2nd fridge, lawn mower, wood splitter, wheel barrow, etc. Plus we have a closet in the garage for extra junk. Most spec homes have a garage just barely big enough to be called 2 car garage. Yes you might fit 2 Coopers in some of them. But practically speaking, often only one car really fits in them.

Obed