[recycled sixtie]

Spent the last couple of hours on roof and took off the inspection panels and found about a quarter to half inch of "soil" type substance under the leaf guard. Now being a split level the upper roof is pretty high. Access with open gutter/eavestrough is easy but with leaf guard you don't get the leaves in there.

So it is a trade off. With leaf guard you still have crud in there in the form of soil but no leaves. Clearing it need not be done so often with leaf guard but to do a good job they should be removed to make them squeaky clean.

With leaf bearing trees around an open eavestrough/gutter will collect lots of leaves.

With a double garage I think we will just go open gutter/eavestrough.