How to add gutter guard to flat roof?

[greenleaf]

The neighbours silk oak tree fills this shed gutter weekly. The top of the gutter sits higher than the roof line (which is flat). 

Suggestions for a gutter guard that will encourage leaves to blow over, rather than settle on top, of a guard?

 

 

[EricL]

Hello @greenleaf 

Thank you for sharing your question about adding gutter guard to your flat roof. Due to the height of your current gutter, standard gutter guard will not be able to do what you have requested. The gutter needs to be changed to a lower one which will allow the leaves, branches and debris to blow over. As it is now, if the gutter guard were installed the debris would stop right on top of the gutter guard and not get blown over due to the height of the gutter.   

What if the gutter guard was installed on a 45degree angle? The leaves and branches would end up gathering at the start of the slope of the gutter guard. It would take a very, very strong wind to blow the leaves branches and debris over the gutter guard hill then over the lip of the gutter.

Let me call on our experienced members @Dave-1, @AlanM52, @Remarka6le and @Noyade for their recommendations.

If you have any other questions we can help with, please let us know.

Eric

[Dave-1]

Good Morning @greenleaf 

Im generally not a fan if gutter guards, I have gum trees and a few others in my backyard taht dump loads of leaves and seeds on my sunroof and yep they end up in the gutter. I get what @EricL was saying with the gutter itself needing to be dropped so as to give a chance for the laves to blow away. Your setup looks like a dam could form. 

As a work around I was thinking of a few long H3 pieces of timber taht sit in the chanels of teh tin roof, with shade cloth screwed to them (The timber is pretty much there to stop it wanting to blow/flap all over the place in wind) With the shade cloth right up to the edge of the gutter. That way the leaves will be able to be blown away and also you can roll the lot up for annual maitanence of cleaning out the gutters. I have to do my non gutter guard gutters maybe every 6 months or less.

Dave

[AlanM52]

Hi @greenleaf,

I would the shade mesh thing as @Dave-1 suggested.

Cheers