Gutter cleaning on Sanibel Island.

Sanibel's conservation-minded landscaping keeps the island densely vegetated, and that vegetation drops onto roofs that are already higher off the ground than mainland ones because the homes are on pilings. So the gutters fill steadily and are further out of reach than usual, while the salt that coats everything else on the island sits in the trough working on the aluminum from the inside.

Our gutter cleaning hand-clears each trough, flushes the downspouts until they run clear, and flow-tests the full run before we leave. We check hangers, seams, and end caps at the same time, because salt-driven corrosion on a coastal gutter shows up there first and it is far easier to catch a separating seam than to deal with what it does over a wet season.

The timing that matters on a barrier island is before the season, not after. Sanibel takes tropical rain with nothing in the way, and a system that has been flow-tested is a system you know will handle it. The roof is roof washing and the cage is lanai cleaning. More on the island in Sanibel.