Lee Wallender is a home improvement writer of nearly 20 years and specializes in home remodeling, repair and maintenance. Kristin is a lead editor at Forbes Home and has nearly a decade of ...

While trees add to your home’s curb appeal, they can also wreak havoc on your gutters, filling them with leaves, pine cones, and seed pods year-round. To prevent this debris from clogging your gutters ...

Rebecca Brill is a writer whose essays have appeared in The Paris Review Daily, VICE, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She runs the Susan Sontag's Diary and the Sylvia Plath's Food Diary accounts on ...

Gutters and downspouts collect water from the roof and distribute it away from a house's foundation. But unless you live in an area without any tall trees, you know that leaves, needles and seed pods ...

Dear Jim: I know clogged, overflowing gutters can damage my house structure, but I also heard they can increase my utility bills. Do the gutter guards that rely on the surface tension of water really ...

For some homeowners, summer rainstorms may have provided notice that their gutters were filled with unwelcome materials or were precariously attached and that it was time to investigate the options ...