Author: Jeff

Early mornings are great for hearing birds chirping, but not when you haven’t slept through the night because of insistent pecking. Pecking alone is a noise that may or may not be tolerable and eventually, it’s just noise. However, if that bird is a woodpecker, it can bring cosmetic damage to your house. Sadly, they…

While underground downspouts are less of an eye-sore than other lawn draining options, it can be tricky tracing the pipe’s end if you weren’t there when it was installed. So, where do underground downspouts go? In most cases, buried downspouts systems resurface to drain up ground somewhere away (1-3 feet) from the house foundations. It…

Without gutters, your roof can get flooded with rainwater, which eventually damages your house foundations. Season after season, your gutters become clogged with leaves, dust, and any other objects that might get accidentally clogged in the guttering, which affects the way the guttering works. As a result, your gutters will no longer be able to…

Gutters are great for collecting rainwater to prevent it from flowing directly down your lawn or yard. This water flows down through a downspout and disperses on the ground. However, you may notice that the water pools in one area if you have a faulty downspout system. In other words, you may not have an…

Believe us when we say that we know how relaxing time in the yard isn’t so relaxing when wasps are buzzing around. They tell you to stay still when there’s a wasp nearby, but it always turns into a marathon when a wasp decides to show up! What’s even more inconvenient is discovering wasps nesting…

After it rains cats and dogs in your neighborhood, you may hear a distinct vibrating noise. So, you investigate a little further and find it’s coming from your downspout. But why is your downspout vibrating? There are a few different reasons your downspout may be vibrating. The most common cause is installation errors. These can…

It’s wonderful that we have downspouts to protect our homes from heavy rains. But why does it have to come at the expense of destroying the lawn? There are multiple stories about downspout killing grass. Which are all true, downspouts can damage your lawn, but only if the discharge is improperly managed. Generally speaking, maintaining…

Burnt clay brick gutters made guttering history as early as 3000 BC in the Indus Valley Civilization. Back then, rainwater was channeled and collected for domestic use. Today, with abundant water supply from modern plumbing, we no longer have to collect rainwater. Yet, we do have to protect our buildings from potential damage caused by…

Are Icicles on gutters bad? It’s too bad you’re reading this instead of enjoying the season’s snowfall like many others out there. But it’s still a good thing because we do need to talk about whether icicles on gutters are bad. Icicles hanging on the outside of your gutters are dangerous and should be removed…