Today we're gonna be showing you how we use this D-Leaf It gutter guard to cover up our gutter so we don't have this happening...
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Today, if you've been here before, you know that I had a crack in the foundation
in the room next door here, which I fixed and it's no longer leaking, but I'm still getting water come in and
The only place for it to be coming in now is up through the floor. So rather than pull these steps out here and
Fill those holes in the floor, what I want to do first is work on the drainage outside
So the first step to that is to get the gutters cleaned out and
Put the leaf guards over the top of them. So this is the problem spot here about our back door
We're not getting good drainage on the side here. So
I need to get up there make sure that's clean
and
put the guard above it to prevent leaves from falling in
See it's dropping down here in front of the door. It's causing flooding for the plant here
but even worse it's causing some water to get into the basement, so
Time to fix it
Okay, so that was pretty blocked now, I want to make sure the pipe is clear coming down to here
It looked like there was some leaves in it
So what I'm going to do is take these out, pull it off here and make sure we have good
drainage going down and out this spot. So we're gonna get the garden hose, run it down through and make sure we get drainage coming out here
So I did get a little bit of sludge come out hosing it down but it is flowing pretty freely
So I check that you can see draining out the other end so that's fine now I just need to reconnect this
Put those screws back in and then head up
to put the gutter guard in.
Ok, I've started putting the mesh in I
Started over there, I didn't...
I wanted to show you that but I also didn't want to fall off the ladder because that's a greater distance
and
A little bit more cumbersome then here on the deck
The instructions say to cut it into four foot lengths
But I I just tried it with the roll all together and I haven't really had any difficulty so far
So I got to there but I need to move the ladder again and
I'll show you there how I been working around these gutter nails
So whenever I get to a gutter nail, I just cut a little snip, about four diamonds up
And then pop the gutter guard in around it like that
Makes it pretty straightforward and seems to be going in place quite well
Since we're up here, it's also good time to show you our back yard, which needs a lot of work
Where we need to fix the drainage is along
Over there we're gonna use the same French drain area that they had, we're going to replace it with
pipe
but we also want to
Come down along here with the drain, and drain it over this way
And tie it into this over here. The reason we're coming back across is we don't want it...
Our driveway is over on that side and we don't want the water flow to come out on the driveway
Okay, so far so good. That's the first roll down. That got me pretty close.
I did cut the next strip to approximately the right length and
I'm gonna put that on now and finish it off. So there you have the gutter guard installed
It looks like it's gonna be helpful. We'll see. A true test will be if we get some
Leaves down the fall and some rain and see if it collects
If you want to follow along with that, we'll keep you updated in the comments and let you know how it does work
in the meantime
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