Scaffold Towers Help Cleaning Gutters

If there was ever a job that needed a scaffold tower, this is it!What Are Soffits and Fascias?OK, firstly poke your head out of your window and turn your head skyward. Do you see the box your guttering is attached to going around the bottom of the roof? The bottom of the box is the soffit and the sides are the fascias. Attached to the soffits and fascias is your guttering. Guttering catches rainwater from the roof and takes it down to the ground and drains, so you don't get soaking wet whenever you walk out of your home.Scaffold towers make what could be one heck of a job into something far more manageable.

Make sure you hire a scaffold tower for a week or so. If you have a two-storey house, you should hire a 5.2-metre tower. With colour-coded braces that click in, wheels and stabilisers, and toe-boards that all magic together within an hour you can be having a face-off with your fascias before you can say 'Ladders are rubbish'.

Take Care of Your Gutters

Cleaning your guttering regularly from a scaffold tower will give your roof a fighting chance of holding off the rot, your house dry and your walls clear of the evils of water. Once a year get up there and rake away the debris of the year's seasons. Always rake away from your downpipe, so you don't block it with more nests and leaves. You can buy rakes that fit your gutters perfectly, making cleaning them easier.

Have a bit of fun and fix a pulley bucket to your scaffold tower so you can get the rubbish to the ground without throwing it all over the place ... your scaffold tower negates the need for a bucket dangling on the top rung.

Check your guttering carefully for breaks or deformities, lock in place any slipped guttering or brackets, make sure your downpipe joins are all in order. When there is more than a couple of things to fix, it's better to just replace everything - especially if you have to replace the soffits and fascias: the little champions of the guttering world.

Fascias and Soffits

The fascias' job is to secure the guttering to make sure that the rainwater drains properly from the roof. Overhanging the walls are the soffits, which should have ventilation holes according to modern building standards. The holes keep the roof aired so the wood isn't damaged by damp.

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