Just found this site a few days ago and have read hundreds of postings. I was more than a little surprised with the amount of interesting information here.
I wont make a claim of doing this professionally because I don’t, I just did my own home with a smaller unit from the borg.
My home was not particularly dirty, I have rinsed it several times with the hose where I could reach.
My white gutters are tiger striped, I used zep house wash again from the Borg and it did little to nothing. I have since learned of the pain they can be and just wondered if anyone has ever tried a protectant on them?
Just thought some nufinish, turtle wax ice or other flavor might keep the stuff away for a while.
Anyway, not going to bother you with diy stuff, I have just found the site VERY interesting…
There are plenty of products available that will remove the strips call a vendor for commercial stuff or order chomp from amazon for home owner stuff. Both will work. Be carful if your to aggressive with it you will remove it down to the metal. Then your screwed
I think he is talking about waxing and maintaining the paint like a car thus preventing oxidation instead repairing. Seems like a lot of work for gutters. I doubt many home owners would apply it. I doubt that it would be affective as the quality of paint on gutters aren’t near car paint
I have done significant searching here and have read a ton, removal is indeed talked about and it seems fairly simple. The right product and perhaps a bit of elbow grease does the job.
My comments were on the line of potential prevention with paint protectant such as car wax.
While there may be many causes, mine is fairly simple, dew collection on the outside attracting dirt onto/into the paint. I have 0 trees within 75 feet and my home roof line is perhaps 10 to 15 above them so very little debris gets into or onto them, just pollen and pollution in the air.
Since wax or silicone sealers like nufinish are supposed to fill in the pores in paint I thought at some point someone might have tried it since cleaning is such a pain.
I have perhaps 200 feet of gutter but most of them are so high you cant see anything on them. I have about 20 feet on the front and 20 on the back that I am going to clean when I get the right chemical. Since it is such a small amount I may just do half of each just to see if it makes any difference.
Probably will be hard to tell since they are 9 years old but I have time and it wont cost to fool around with it
I was just wondering the very same thing about the car wax. I also wondered about the car wash soap in regards to the “fallout” issue, id be inclined to believe most the higher end carwash soaps are excellent degreasers.
Please report back on your findings. One thing that keeps me from offering gutter oxidation removal is the fact of how quickly the stripes will come back. If that process could be delayed by a year or two, I’d be interested to try it. But I can see application of the wax being an issue
Some of the guys on here have used f13 gutter grenade from pressure tek, to get through or “remove” that tiger striping on the gutters. But like @florida_condo_cleani said, be careful. Those search terms offered are good ones for you to use, I’ve seen those threads. Theres good info in there. Good luck !
If you apply silicones or waxes to your house beware…
If you ever choose to paint any surfaces that had contact with them make sure you have removed 100%
of residue as it will cause cissing/fisheye and adhesion failures.
Btw it’s hard to determine if 100% of residue has been removed until you apply coatings and see the problem areas.
I would avoid it like the plague.
Yeah that is indeed a solid point. Many consumer available coatings are going to struggle a bit anyway.
From a practical view, a quick rattle can post cleaning each year is likely a less expensive solution.
My original thoughts actually surrounded the Turtle Wax ice which is spray on wipe off. The thought being that you would not need to wipe it off of a gutter like you do on a car. You are however a 100% correct you would have to strip the "wax " off before ever painting it or you would have significant adhesion problems.
I’m gonna give it a shot just because I’m curious about it and have no problem getting the right product to strip it should I need to paint .
As a long time window cleaner I get asked a lot to clean the outside of gutters. Over time I just decided it wasn’t worth the effort, however…when I did I used Dirtex, a ladder and good ol’ elbow grease. Gets those black marks right off.
Ok, I grabbed some purple power at walmart (THE ONE BY ME CARRIES 5 GALLONS AS WELL) and while a good cleaner it was not a spray, soak rinse on my soils.
Even with significant elbow grease it left a bit of stain behind.
At this point i am just going to lacquer them with a rattle can.
