Residential gutter cleaning in Roswell, GA

Roswell sits in North Fulton on some of the oldest tree cover in the metro, and that shows up in the gutters. The Historic District around Canton Street and Roswell Square is shaded by hardwoods that stood here long before the subdivisions, and the antebellum properties near Bulloch Hall, Barrington Hall, and the Archibald Smith Plantation carry mature canopy right over the roofline. South and west of town the land drops toward Vickery Creek and the Chattahoochee, where the Roswell Mill and Willeo Road stay wooded and damp most of the year. Then you have the big planned communities. Martins Landing, off Holcomb Bridge Road and built in the 1970s around its lakes, and Horseshoe Bend, with its golf-course lots from the same era, have both had fifty years for their water oaks, willow oaks, hickories, sweet gums, and loblolly pines to grow tall. Mature trees drop a lot. Newer construction toward Crossville and the Alpharetta line has lighter cover, but the older Roswell ZIP codes, 30075 and 30076 in particular, are hardwood country. Sweet gum balls are the local headache. They punch through cheap mesh guards and wedge into downspout elbows in a way loose leaves never manage. HOA neighborhoods around Horseshoe Bend and Martins Landing usually want an insurance certificate before anyone works on the house, and we keep that paperwork ready to go.

Downspout clogs are a steady problem in Roswell, and they tend to show up at the worst time, during the hard summer thunderstorms or after a fall storm washes a season of leaves down into the system. When a downspout plugs, water backs up over the lip and pours down right next to the house. On Roswell's red clay that is exactly how you end up with a wet crawl space, a damp basement, or settling at the footing. We have pulled just about everything out of local downspouts over the years, from compressed leaf plugs and pine-needle mats to hickory-nut clusters, sweet gum balls, roofing granules, and the occasional bird nest that we move somewhere safe. The stubborn ones are almost always a wet mass jammed into an elbow. We start from the top with a snake and gutter tools to break the clog apart, and if that does not clear it we take the downspout apart at the seam and reach the blockage directly. Now and then a bad plug needs work from both ends at once. Once it runs, we flush the whole line with water to confirm it is flowing and to rinse out the small stuff, then we check that the extension at the bottom is actually carrying water away from the foundation instead of dumping it at the corner of the house.