GUTTER CLEANING & BRIGHTENING

TWO DIFFERENT PROBLEMS, ONE VISIT

Gutters fail in two ways at once, and most companies only address one. Inside, packed leaves, shingle grit and seed pods block the flow so water spills over the front edge, saturates the fascia and dumps against your foundation. Outside, a stubborn black striping — the tiger stripes you see on almost every house in the metro — bakes into the aluminum from oxidation and roof runoff, and ordinary house washing will not touch it.

We handle both on the same visit. First the troughs get cleared by hand, the debris gets bagged and hauled off rather than dropped in your beds, and every downspout gets flushed and checked until water runs free at the discharge point. We look for separated seams, loose hangers, sagging runs and missing extensions while we are up there and tell you what we find.

Then the faces get brightened. Tiger striping is electrostatically bonded carbon and pollution residue, not loose dirt, so it requires a dedicated gutter-brightening product scrubbed onto the aluminum panel by panel. It is hand work rather than spray-and-rinse, which is exactly why so few companies include it — and when the striping lifts, that horizontal line is the detail that makes an entire house look freshly washed.

All ladder work is done with standoff stabilizers so nothing dents the gutter or scuffs the fascia, and we sweep and rinse the walks and driveway before we leave.

Gutter service pairs naturally with roof soft washing and house washing, since all three are staged from the same access points and the same protective prep. Booked together, the roofline, gutter faces and siding finish as one continuous clean surface instead of a clean wall under a dirty stripe. Twice a year is realistic for Overland Park properties with mature trees; newer subdivisions can usually go once a year.