I finished installing the steel gutter guard on the house today. When it came to gutter guards there were quite a few options but since we are in a fire threat area, the choices were narrowed pretty much to steel or aluminium products. There are a couple of different brands out there. We got the gutta-arma which is a BP Colourbond steel product which is basically a sheet of metal which is perforated then stretched to produce the grid-like openings. This system is supposed to be better than the aluminum mesh... but who really knows? Any guttering system on this colourbaond verandah roof (which is actually quite flat) would collect leaves and will need a regular blow-vac.
Shopping around I found a good metal mesh-type gutter guard called Guttershield (John 0412415581) , from as little as $11.90 p/m supplied only and approx double that installed, up to the Gutta-arma which was originally quoted to me by The Leaf-Man for about $31 p/m installed and supply only at ~$23 p/m. However, I also found a wholesale building supplier on the net which was selling the same Gutta-arma for $16.58p/m (Gutta-Arma 96345509)! So, when I quizzed The Leaf-Man about this, he sold me the colour-matched Gutta-arma for $17 incl. GST delivered....hmmmm
Installation is pretty damn easy (but uncomfortable!!!) and the saving of $13.50 p/m was well worth the effort (for ~80 metres of guttering, thats $1080.00)! The actual installation took me about 8 hours (thats about 5~6 minutes per 1.2 metre sheet) but cleaning the gutters took about 6 hours (Annette did about 4 of those). It went through about 1100 little hex screws (which were spplied) and 6.5 tubes of clear gutter silicone tubes (about $7.50 each).
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