Best Gutter Cleaning Tools

Positively, Karcher is one of those companies that work to make cleaning convenient and effective. Their products are made to last and please their users, and their gutter cleaning tool is no exception. This is a brass wand with a plastic handle and 90-degree angled nozzle. Its length is only 30”, so you need to attach it to the extension tube of the pressure washer and you are ready to start cleaning. And that’s it! If it doesn't impress you, wait until you attach the wand to the electric pressure washer by Karcher.

Thanks to the 90-degree nozzle, spraying off dirt is dead easy. You can clean a lot of hard-to-reach places inside and outside your house and gutters are by far not the only thing it is useful for. The Karcher gutter cleaning tool can help keep an awning and other parts of the roof neat. It can also wash away mud from the undercarriage of your car, tire wells, and behind the wheels. Also, the pressure on this washer is quite heavy, so it can easily push you back when in use. For this reason, the manufacturer recommends holding the wand with both hands. Positively, if you want to invest wisely and get a reliable tool for unclogging gutters in your home, wash your car, and other awkward places, Karcher is the right tool.

If you are looking for a simple device that will help you keep your gutters free from leaves and other debris, we suggest you take a good look at the GutterWhiz cleaning tool. Thanks to its lean and mean design, this tool is dead easy to use. It has claws that you place into the gutter to gather leaves, pine needles, and other debris, and the yellow rope which you tighten or loosen to move the claws. Or, rather one claw, as the right one doesn’t move, but instead provides a backstop. The clamps are 1.5” in width, so they fit all the standard drain systems. They are also quite long, letting you work with gutters up to 8” in depth. As most of the gutter cleaning tools, this one comes without an extension pole, so you can pick the right one for the height of the gutters on your house.

As for its performance, the GutterWhiz collects both wet and dry leaves well. However, considering its construction, the claws can’t hold too many leaves at a time. So, there will be a tax on your patience when you decide to clean very tough debris. In other words, if you are looking for a medium between paying a fortune for a professional gutter cleaning service and the need to mount a ladder, the GutterWhiz is a very decent alternative.

If safety is your priority and you don’t want your loved ones to climb a ladder and risk breaking their necks while unclogging gutters, then the Gutter Sense GSGT should be right up your alley. This is a spring-loaded device with “salad tongs” at the end. It may seem ineffective for collecting leaves and other stuff from a drain system, but it’s not.

The clamping mechanism is a fishing line attached to a rope with the spring on the tip. The rope is about 11” long, but if you need it longer, you can tie an extension. The spring holds the claws open while you raise up the tool and place it into the gutter. In order to grasp rubbish, you need to pull the string and it will squeeze the tongs with some of the debris in between. How strong the grip is, mostly depends on the tension you provide. Therefore, it may take some practice before you get up to speed with the process. As for the pole, you can attach this device to a standard broom pole if it suits you in length or buy a proper one in a household store.

The only inconvenience of such a device is that you can’t see whether the gutter is clean or not. However, this is an issue of all similar equipment. There is a solution though. You can always rely on your hearing. An empty gutter sounds different than a full one.

Summarizing all the above, we’d like to say that the Gutter Sense cleaning tool is a simple piece of equipment but no less effective. It will make you work hard but in the end, it will help save your health and money.

Do you agree that cleaning doesn’t have to be difficult, boring, or expensive? Well, this is definitely the motto of Orbit engineers. Take their telescopic gutter cleaning wand for example. This is a $20 tool that not only helps you clean the rain gutters on your house but also allows you to wash your car, undercarriage, behind the wheels, etc.

More precisely, this is a 40” aluminum wand that extends almost twice its length. It has a zink sweeper nozzle that rotates 180° and a 4-position ratcheting mechanism. All you need to do to start cleaning is attach it to the garden hose, turn on the tap, and let the water run freely. The cleaning process is similar to any other wand that uses water pressure - just guide the nozzle to the debris in the gutters to rinse them off. By the way, since the efficacy depends on the water pressure, the engineers from Orbit has added a shut-off valve on the wand for smooth flow control. As a result of all these engineering solutions, you get a lightweight tool adjustable for cleaning almost any hard-to-reach place on a house. Moreover, the water control option is a good chance to not just improve dirt removal on tough areas but also to save on water by reducing the flow when you don’t need it heavy.

Positively, the Orbit 58543 is a very good gutter cleaning tool that can help you keep your drain system neat every day at minimum expense. The only thing you may worry about with this device is on what to spend the hundreds of dollars that you save on a gutter cleaning service and a car wash. Does it sound like fun? Well, it is!

The WalterDrake telescopic gutter cleaning brush is a classic tool for a classic chore. This is the simplest product in our review, but simplicity is its virtue. Indeed, this device can become a very useful cleaning tool in the right hands by letting its user clean almost anything inside and outside a house.

This is a 36” aluminum telescopic wand that extends twice its length so that you can reach the gutters from the ground, if they are lower than 74” from your reach. Otherwise, you can try to clean the drain system from a window or while standing on a ladder. This product is equipped with a flexible brush head with an angled tip to fit the shape of a gutter. The other end of the tool has a non-slip handle for a more convenient and strong grip. In order to clean a drain system, you need to raise up the wand, place the brush into the gutter, and sweep out the dry leaves and needles that clog it. And that’s it! Dead simple.

However, if we had to point out a flaw of this product, that would probably be the brush bristles. The thing is, they are made soft which is okay for unclogging dry leaves and needles but may not always be as effective when you try to remove watery debris. So if you do not neglect the gutters on your home and clean them regularly, the WalterDrake telescopic gutter cleaning brush can become your reliable assistant and save you some money on a cleaning service.