Ellisville, MO's Trusted Team for Gutters and Retaining Walls
Cleaning gutters is something homeowners hate! That’s why we offer our professional gutter cleaning service. We handle the falling leaves wreak havoc with proper water flow, and enable you to stay safely off of roofs and ladders. Don’t let a backup in a gutter or downspout ruin your siding, roofing, or the foundation of your home—It only takes a few months for debris to build up.
Retaining Walls
Retaining walls can be useful for practical or aesthetic reasons. If water runoff is causing hillside erosion, walls are usually necessary to hold back a mound of soil, yet give you living space and a striking part of residential or commercial landscaping. A tiered design breaks up the amount of soil and divides the pressure among sections. As planters, retaining walls add architectural interest and create usable space in a yard. We can help you choose from:
- Interlocking blocks
- Stacked stone
- Brick or block
- Concrete
- Stacked timber
When and How to Clean Gutters
The best times for cleaning gutters are spring and fall. Improper drainage of the roof can lead to a winter ice dam, which can collapse your roof. If the water isn’t smoothly being diverted away from the house, it will freeze, which can crack and separate seams of your guttering system. In spring, clogged gutters make inviting nesting areas for birds and rodents. Even if you have screens, small debris will slip through and gutters will still get clogged without cleaning 1-2 times per year.
It is vital to ensure that water isn’t running down the siding of your house. When water gets into the seams and gets behind the exterior, you’re looking at wood rot, and the cost of replacing insulation. It can pass on through to drywall, and replacing rotted fascia is not cheap! Now you’re planning a major renovation, when you could simply have used our affordable service and avoided expensive damage.
Our Expertise
To clean gutters, we use high-powered blowers and our own two hands to get all leaves, debris, muck and sludge out. Then we flush the system to check that water is flowing smoothly. Sometimes a clog is so persistent that we may have to disassemble a section and re-assemble it once the clog is out.
Your retaining wall must be large and strong to stand up to the pressure of a slope, and to redistribute it (more engineering!). It’s normally includes drainage to allow ground water to escape and relieve pressure. Retaining walls are not a DIY project, because professionals need to engineer a study design that won’t bulge, lean, or collapse due to water weight, frost, or time. For customized designs, installations, and repairs, call the team that knows its stuff!