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I have never used any type of gutter guards on any house we have owned . I also am not a fan of trees being too close to the house for a variety of reasons . Having said that I was in Home Depot the other day and saw an interesting solution . They were pieces of a very open foam or like a furnace filter material . The pieces were about 5 ' long and we're extruded to the shape of the gutter .

It looks like you just set them in your gutter end to end and done . Rain would go right through it but debris would not . But I would think at some point enough debris would be caught in it and on it to restrict flow . Not sure how to clean them , my guess is pull them out and reverse flow with a garden hose .