If you have many trees in your garden it can be profitable to put a system in to prevent the leaves from accumulating in your gutter.
How to block gutter downpipe.
A simple tip to block your downpipe.
Insert the hose into the.
If you have trees overhanging your house they would likely cause blockages.
Leaves the most common of all gutter blocking materials homes that are surrounded by numerous trees are at an increased risk of leaves blocking their downpipe gutters.
Then attach the 15mm 20mm nipple.
Attach the second elbow on to the protruding end of the nipple so that the elbows make a hook shape on the end of the riser.
Attach a high pressure nozzle onto your garden hose.
Using water pressure 1.
To avoid the gutter from getting blocked too often you can use a grating or brush leaf guard to ensure leaves don t block the channel.
In such cases get a galvanised chicken wire or a mesh of similar size and fix it over the top of the hopper while securing it with a thin galvanised wire.
This is the business end of the unit and is intended to hook over the edge of the gutter to be left dandling.
So cut them back.
At the other end of the riser attach the ball valve.
Remove the downspout from the pipe.
The hose s normal pressure probably won t be enough to dislodge.
The gutter in some older houses is designed to feed into a hopper at the top of a downpipe.