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- Harry C. Raleigh, NC My front yard is full of tall pin oak trees whose small slender leaves used to clog up the front porch gutter almost as soon as it was cleaned out! Some time back I had metal gutter guards installed on the gutters in an effort to keep leaves from building up. But the leaves just piled up on top of the cover instead of in the gutter, and they continued to back up on the roof as well. I still had to have the leaves cleaned off the guards and roof two to three times a year. John has done a lot of work inside and outside my house for years including cleaning the leaves from my roof and gutters.. The last time I called John to come by and clean the leaves off he said he had developed a way to flip and clean gutters from the ground, that I would be able to do myself. I was all ears. In a couple of hours one morning John converted the porch gutter with Guttercleaning123. Since then when I see the pesky pin oak leaves peeping over the gutter edge, I just flip and empty them easily in no time at all! 
John A: Prior to some prototype installations, Harry's front porch gutter was the first for hire gutter conversion I did in November of 2009. It was a 30 foot gutter with a downspout at each end that I split it into two 15 foot sections. The longest gutter section supported and tested in GC123 is 28 feet which is good fit with downspouts, as one is typically placed for every 20-25 feet of gutter. Since I continue to work at Harry's when new jobs come up I've watched how the converted gutters operate over time. The leaves that used to pile up against the fixed gutter cover no longer do and instead eventually make their way down into the gutters where they are easily emptied out. Recently I converted a 12' gutter on the side of Harry's house that was always filling up with pin oak leaves and pine needles. This gutter had a lot of plants growing in it before I converted it. And now Harry wants me to convert the two high gutters on the back of the house. 
- Nancy W. Raleigh, NC My husband and I run a business and have had John fix and install many things at our office and home. In visiting the Triangle Handyman web site at one point to see if a task we needed done was offered, I came across information about a system John had developed for cleaning out gutters. When he came by the house to do the work we needed, I asked about converting a gutter on one side of our screened in porch that always collected a lot of leaves, more so than any other gutter on our home. I asked if just that gutter could be converted and he said, sure you only need to convert the ones that give you trouble. The price was very reasonable and we told John to go ahead and convert the gutter. It isn't a high gutter and I can see it from a second floor window overlooking the porch. Now whenever it begins to fill up, I use the short pole and hook to flip it over and I'm done! 
John A: Nancy's converted gutter is about 16 feet long. It is the left hand part of a right angle gutter setup. The right hand portion is still fixed to the back of the house. The GC123 converted gutter section begins at the left side of the inside corner. I added the downspout at the far left to serve the GC123 gutter section.
- Jeff B. Raleigh, NC Over the years I have had John do many tasks at my home. One of the first was to replace a rotted piece of fascia board under my back gutter which constantly overflowed because of the leaves that clog it up. On a subsequent visit I had John install gutter guards over this gutter in an effort to keep the leaves out of it. Later on that same year I asked John to stop by and knock the leaves off the gutter guards as they weren't helping much. He said, I can but it would be highway robbery, instead let me convert your gutter with a new system I've come up with so you can clean them yourself from the ground. He installed it and I now can flip the gutter from a second story deck with a 3 foot pole and hook. 
John A: Jeff's gutter wasn't as easy to convert as some of the other installations. It is 18 feet high and the shingle overhang varied a lot along the roof line above the gutter. The full back gutter length is 53 feet and since Jeff only had trouble on the right side I split the gutter at midpoint leaving the left half fixed. The 27 foot right half is a GC123 section. Installing the V-ramp flashing insured that the roof runoff would go beyond the very short overhanging shingles near the span center and fall squarely in the gutter at all rain fall rates.
- Susan H. Raleigh, NC I am a realtor and a typical buyers inspection list often requires that gutters be cleaned out. My house is no exception and up until recently I have had my handyman, Rommel, clean out my gutters regularly as the tall trees nearby constantly dump leaves into them. The last time he came out he told me about a gutter flip system that another handyman had developed. I visited the Triangle Handyman web site and saw how they worked and wanted them installed. John and Rommel came by one day and converted the gutters on my house. They work very well and the longer gutter is pretty high. I use a 16 foot telescopic pole and hook to flip it. Hooking it over is easy while pushing it back up took a couple of times to get good at, but now I can do it easily and quickly. 
John A: Susan's house has two sets of identical gutters in the front and in the back. The front gutters are shown in the photo. The one on the left is 14 feet long and one at the second story level is 27 feet long. Prior to GC123 conversion the gutters had curved metal-screen guards installed on them. This type of cover forms a small valley between the roof and the back of the arched guards where leaves always collect, requiring multiple cleanings per year. We removed the guards and installed rotating brackets on the gutters with a collector box at each downspout. It was straight forward install. About 10 months after the front gutters were converted Susan called and wanted the two back gutters converted as well which I was quite happy to do for her!
- Maggie N. Apex, NC John was at my home one day fixing some things inside and I asked if he worked on gutters. He said he did. I showed him the gutter pictured below and explained that it constantly overflowed causing the wood around the upper window under it to rot out. Whenever it rained water would leak from the ceiling and walls in the living room which caused damage inside as well. I had the window repaired, and since then have had two roofers, a contractor and a handyman come by to repair the gutter, yet it still overflowed, and now no one would clean it out! John set up his ladder and looked at the gutter. He said there were two pieces of flat hard plastic gutter guard installed on it. The right piece had collapsed near the center allowing leaves to get into the gutter. Over time they had all collected and decayed at the left side of the gutter where the drain is, completely clogging it. The left gutter guard, still in tact, completely blocked access to the drain area. To remove the gutter guard required loosening and partially removing the gutter, which is why no one wanted to clean it out. At this point John explained he had invented a system to empty the leaves in rain gutters from the ground. I said whatever you can do to stop the gutter from overflowing like Niagara Falls in heavy rains, go ahead and do it. John installed the system and there is no more overflow. I can sleep again at night when it rains, because I don't worry about water rotting the window frame and leaking into my house anymore! I don't get around as well as I used to these days, and my house mate Amy takes care of the gutter for me. Thank you John! Amy hooking gutter Gutter flipped over 
John A: Maggie had one of the shortest gutter conversions at just 7 1/2 feet long, but it caused a long list of serious problems. The gutter serves a large Y shaped roof area and a lot of water comes into it. Along with that another gutter above it to the right used to empty into it as well. When the drain was clogged, large amounts of rain water flowed over the front and back of this gutter. Besides converting it to GC123 Maggie wanted the upper gutter to feed directly to the ground which I did. On the day these photos were taken I had just brought over a new 16 foot extension pole to better reach this 18 foot high gutter and Amy was eager to try it out.
- Wayne W. Fuquay-Varina, NC I have a very high gutter at the back of my house that is right under a large tree. Every fall it fills up with leaves right after it is cleaned! When I heard about the GutterCleaning123 system I decided to give it a try. Now I can flip and empty this gutter as often as I like and don't have to worry about it overflowing every time it rains anymore. 
John A: Wayne's gutter is 26 feet long and about 22 feet off the ground. It is the highest gutter I've converted to date. It has 6 rotating brackets on it. With a 16 foot pole and a steady hand either Wayne or myself are able to pull, empty and push this gutter back up. About 6 months after converting Wayne's back gutter, he asked me to convert the much longer gutter that wraps around his front porch. 
- Ralph M. Raleigh, NC I got John's contact information from an old friend who highly recommended him for some work I needed done on my house. I have a long gutter running along the back of my house and every time we get a good rain water pours off the section of the gutter right onto my deck! This gutter has a single downspout at the other end which I recently had upgraded from a 2x3 to a 3x4 size in an effort stop the rain water overflow onto my deck. It helped but did not entirely fix the problem even after cleaning it out. From what I'd been told the next step was to add another downspout to the gutter and that is when I called John. 
John A: When Ralph I arrived at Ralph's to see about adding a downspout I saw that his gutter at 31 feet needed a second downspout as the rule of thumb for downspouts is one for every 20-25 feet gutter. Ralph wanted the second downspout near the center since the left end was over the deck and had no good path to get to the ground. In talking to Ralph about what the new downspout would cost I mentioned my GC123 system and showed him a small demo unit of it I carry in my truck. I explained what converting this gutter would cost and how he would recoup this in a relatively short time by no longer having to pay someone to clean it out often as was the case for him. Ralph said he wanted to think about it and I headed out to get the materials for the new downspout installation. When I returned Ralph said he had decided to go ahead with the conversion. I said with all the trees he had in back this was a good decision. I installed the downspout and then split the gutter into two sections 14-1/2' left and 16-1/2' right, with each emptying into it's own downspout. Adding the second downspout was a needed improvement which with or without the conversion, could quickly be offset if leaves were allowed to pile up and clog the gutter. Now Ralph no longer has to worry about leaves getting ahead of him since he can empty these gutters any time he likes without having to pay someone to do it! Ralph said if it works out well through the fall season he would have me back to convert another short gutter section on the side as well.
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