The Valor gutter guard from The Gutter Boys features a raised S-curve micro-mesh which allows the wind to flow under debris and blow it away
By Mitch Allen
As beautiful as the colorful fall leaves are, they’re also a nuisance, collecting in your gutters and clogging them, causing dangerous overflows that can damage your home’s foundation and allow water into your basement.
Keeping your gutters clean is an absolute necessity, but it doesn’t have to require regularly scaling a ladder and reaching your hand into the primordial muck.
Instead, here’s how to let the wind simply blow it all away.
The Top-Rated Gutter Cover
In 2017, NCR Consumer Advocacy Group—the nation’s largest publisher of independent third-party testing, ratings and reviews for the gutter cover and home improvement industry—ranked the Valor gutter guard number one in all categories it measured: value, effectiveness, industry reputation, strength, water throughput, durability and “overall.”
Why? Because the design is ingenious.
Valor’s elevated S-curve micro-mesh design provides natural water flow resistance, capturing and directing a lot more water into the gutter compared to other micro-mesh systems—with virtually no overflowing. Valor is installed on the gutter and pitched at a slight angle. This—and the superior “elevation and trough” design—allows the wind to get under debris and blow it off the guard better than a flat screen design which allows debris to dry and clog it.
Plus, Valor is made from strong, lightweight aluminum, rather than heavy galvanized steel (you don’t want that added weight on your gutters) and it features a fully-transferrable, lifetime warranty.
And, here in Northeast Ohio, The Gutter Boys are the exclusive installer of the Valor system.
A Different Selling Approach
“We’ve been cleaning gutters and installing gutter cover systems since 2001 and we stopped hiring ‘salespeople’ long ago,” Ken says. “Instead, we hire kind, smart, competent people and train them to be gutter specialists.”
The Gutter Boys team of specialists aren’t your typical 1950s-style aluminum siding salespeople. They are folks like Seth Witt, a paramedic, Jim Wilson, a hospice nurse, and Ryan Thompson, a communications major.
“Once these guys demonstrate our system and compare it to the competition, it’s a clear choice for the homeowner,” Ken says.
In addition, The Gutter Boys doesn’t offer its staff an additional incentive for a one-call close.
“We want you to shop around,” he adds. “We want you to compare. The more you know about our industry, the more likely you are to choose us.”
The Gutter Boys is headquartered at 1090 West Bagley Road, in Berea. They have an A+ rating with the BBB, and are bonded and insured. Call 440-454-7040 to schedule a free on-site consultation and estimate, or visit TheGutterBoys.com for more information. They also offer 12 months same-as-cash financing.