Cowleys gutter cleaning in Cream Ridge, NJ

If you’ve ever had clogged gutters, you know the problem. Whenever there is a heavy rain, water will start pouring over the gutters’ sides. Your home looks like Niagara Falls, and your forced to navigate through a sheet of water whenever going to and from your home. 

But clogged gutters are far more than an inconvenience for this homeowner in Cream Ridge, NJ. Gutter blockage can lead to expensive home repairs. Water gushing over the gutter’s sides will pool around the foundation, saturating and weakening it. In severe cases, over time, standing gutter water can even cause foundation collapse! But that’s not all. Water from clogged gutters can saturate the fascia boards on which the gutter system is attached, and lead to wood rot. Time and time again, we see wildlife, especially raccoons and squirrels, ripping through water-damaged fascia boards to gain access inside the attic.

Pooling gutter water can lead to dangerous mold growth and also attract insects. During the summer, standing water around your home is a potential breeding ground for disease-carrying mosquitoes. Also, water spilling over the gutters’ sides can land on trees and shrubs causing landscape damage. During the winter, gutter water freezing on the roof can lead to the formation of destructive ice dams on the lower edge of the roof leading to roof damage and water seepage into the attic. 

In short, this relatively simply home maintenance task can avoid a long list of serious expensive problems. Cowleys realizes that many homeowners do not have the time, interest, or mobility to be climbing up and down ladders scooping debris out of their gutters, so we offer full gutter cleaning as part of your home protection services. We’ll come over to your home, remove the debris from your gutters, and run water through the drains to double-check that any damaging rainwater will properly flow away from your home’s foundation – and most important, you’ll have one less problem to worry about!