Tongs for Gutters

[darkoshi]

Metal tongs are also good for cleaning out gutters!

(They allowed me to finish the task even after being horrified to find tons of ants running around in the gutters after I'd pulled out a few handfuls of leaves. They must have built a nest within the decaying leaves and gunk in there. But the tongs would work well on ant-free gutters too. )

The tongs are narrow enough to easily pull crud out of the gutters with them, and they avoid me getting my hands/gloves dirty while doing it.

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[marahmarie]

I used pretty much this pair of tongs to pull hard-boiled eggs out of the Instant Pot tonight. I was kind of excited since I wasn't sure until Googling just now if they were eggs tongs or not (normally I just use them to flip meat, fish, etc, which they work well for only if the flesh in question is firm enough).

The last gutters I cleaned out on the reg (last done 13 years ago?) I stood on a mid-tall ladder, still could not see inside the gutters so used my gloved hands to scoop the leaves, debris and all the slime out. I'd have to "feel around" for when it was done enough. If it wasn't, rainwater poured up and out the sides and made a mess of everything with slimy dead leaves floating all over the place. I think I'd use the hose too but whatever hose we had didn't reach far enough.

Oh, and...

[marahmarie]

Have you ever had plants start growing in your gutter debris? We'd get scrub oak and other little seedlings coming up in ours all the time.