Gutter Cleaning in Omaha, NE

Cleared by hand, then flushed

Debris comes out of the gutter by hand and goes in a bag rather than onto your beds and lawn, and the gutter is then wiped through so the trough is actually clear rather than merely emptied of the visible material.

Downspouts are flushed separately with water. This matters because a gutter can look perfectly clean from a ladder while the downspout below it is plugged solid. The blockage is almost always at the top elbow or where the spout turns at grade, and neither is visible from above.

Then we run water down the whole run and watch where it goes. If it does not come out the bottom, the job is not done, and if it comes out somewhere other than the bottom you have a joint problem that you need to know about.

Where the water goes after the downspout

A cleared gutter that discharges against the foundation has moved the problem four feet, not solved it.

Omaha sits on clay soils, and clay expands when it takes on water and contracts when it dries. Repeated saturation right at the foundation is the mechanism behind a lot of wet basements in this metro, and the source is very often a downspout emptying straight onto the apron beside the house.

So while we are there we check where each downspout actually discharges and whether the ground falls away from the house or back towards it. Extensions, splash blocks and buried drains all fail in ways that are invisible until you look. A buried drain line that has silted up will back water up the spout, and you will never see it from the ground.

We will tell you what we find. Adding a downspout extension is a twenty-dollar fix that occasionally prevents a five-figure one.