These things are the bane of my existence.
I have them in one of my rental houses and they cause me all kinds of greif. It happens basically like this: A single leaf falls into the gutter there by clogging it 100%. A light rain falls, all the water now overflows the gutter, saturates my back yard, and floods my basement.
Yes I might be a little over-dramatic here. If these were on a house I lived in cleaning them would be much less of an issue, but it is a rental. I try to stay on top of them as much as I can but cleaning them 2x a month just does not feel worth it.
So what can I do?
1. Add More downspouts? - This will help, but they will still get clogged
2. Cut back the tree? - This would help more, but there are other trees and this is not cheap at all. ($1000?)
3. Gutter guards?
Do they make anything for the old style box gutters? Could I Macgyver something up to sit on top of the box gutter to keep the tree junk out? Issue here is I am not exactly sure what I would attach them too. I can use screws with rubber gaskets but those are going to leak at some point.
What say you MMM community?!