Has anyone ever used a hedgehog in a gutter?
A quick google shows an amazon link... and amazon's always worth a look because people leave reviews. See for example:
I sometimes wonder what we all did before cable-ties were invented.
Google also showed (inevitably) competing products eg "porcupipe".
I would suspect they would sludge up
Maybe you ought to ask the hedgehog if it minds being used as a gutter brush. It might get very prickly at the thought.
GMM pretended :
I cannot see it being really any more effective than the GutterGuard mesh which clips over your gutter to keep the leaves out. Its a 3/8" plastic mesh in several metres long rolls and now sells for a £1 in the pound shops.
I used this in the US, and it was great. There, it came in 2-foot long sections that slid under the flexible roof tiles, and snapped onto the gutter front edge. We had lots of trees that dropped helicopter seeds, and it worked against them.
--=20 Davey.
In fact of all the 14 posted reviews there are none which says it doesn't work (though a large number of them just say it 'looks like it will work OK" or words to that effect). I'm tempted too, actually.
David
Installed the first long runs (close to trees) three years ago then the remainder of the property last year. Splendid stuff, I have not had to remove it and give it a shake yet - that is the way to clear it should the wind and rain not do it for you. Just stick a hose in each run every couple of years to flush the grit away. Comes in 4 metres lengths which are very easy to install. The only 'problem' is that lumps of moss tend to roll down the roof, hit the hedgehog and bounce off on to the pathways and drive.
If you are not convinced you may want to do what I did - pick a run or two of guttering that is the most prone to blockage, fit a couple of lengths and see what it looks like a year or so later.
-- rbel
Davey used his keyboard to write :
Lidl or Aldi sold it in rolls, packed in a box, with several plastic clips to keep it in place. The pound shops then started to sell it without the box - not sure whether they included and clips though. It is just a flexible plastic mesh.
The ones I used in the US were basically solid stiff pieces.
--=20 Davey.
It isn't going to stop the sandy residue from entering the gutters, and will in my opinion then make things worse as it will reduce the flow. Brushes like this are used in pond filters to trap suspended solids...
Besides which, who has masses of baby tomatoes rolling down their roof.
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