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Master Shield Gutter Protection - Anyone have them
Ken, in most places up here where leaves and or needles is an issue, they use a different approach altogether.
They don't use conventional gutters at all, but rather a type of louvers set horizontally and just a few inches wide, mounted just below the roof line on the fascia board.
On the ground below that they install a strip of clear gravel with drainage tile that carries the water away.
The big advantage in our area (likely not yours though) is the winter weather doesn't really affect it all. It is mounted low enough that snow and ice just slides right off over top of it and it can't fill up. Likewise, leaves coming down late in the fall can't clog it right before freeze up the way they can gutters.
They only use short pieces of gutters over doorways and such to give protection to people going in or out.
Best of luck.
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Ken, while we do have less rain than you, probably a lot less, we still get about 30" of rain a year, bear in mind however, we also get about 60" of snow on top of that, all of which eventually melts of course.
There really isn't an erosion problem as long as the entire thing is done as a whole 'package'. The louvers disperse the water into a small area instead of a narrow single line of drops. It then lands in a gravel area that is immune to erosion compared to soil. The water then runs down through the gravel into drainage tile where it's carried of to a discharge point.
A lot of people (especially those in the rain shadow of the Great Lakes) find they actually have less erosion since the gutters discharge at surface and this method uses buried drainage tile to carry the water away.
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Ken,
The norm around here is a zinc strip to keep the moss, etc., at bay. The roofers put a strip of zinc sheet metal over the peak before putting on the ridge cap. The sheet metal is about 4" - 6" wider than the ridge cap so that 2" - 3" of it is exposed on each slope of the roof. When it rains a minute amount of the zinc leaches out and runs down the roof keeping it coated.
This is more than enough to keep any growth at bay.
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I had a good laugh too, but it was a clip of an airplane towing a banner over the conference area, it read "Stop global warming now!". It was paid for by one of the big 'environmental' groups.
I wonder if anyone ever told them that one small airplane puts out about as much pollution as 20 or 25 cars? 
Maybe it's just another case of do as I say, not as I do?
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