Can you attach a rope to a Looj?
Can you attach a rope to a Looj?
I have one gutter that's scary and don't want a looj to get stuck in it. I normally pay a local business to clean my gutters every year but this time they said they would only clean the lower ones. So I ordered a Looj. I have dozens of trees around my house so my gutters are compost piles.
Someone on Amazon's reviews did that -- I copied it directly from there...
Great Machine!, November 28, 2007
By A. Wade Manning (Maryland) - See all my reviews
I had decided not to buy this product after reading poor reviews from 3 others. Then I got an estimate of $400 to clean my gutters. I figured for $99 I might as well try the robot. My house is on a steep hill and in many places my ladder will not reach to the gutters. The thought of it getting stuck in a place I could not reach led me to attach a kite string to the robot, 'just in case'. If you do that, make sure you tend the string so as not to back over it, or it will wind around the auger. (You can guess how I found that out).
I was shocked to find that the robot did everything it is advertised to do. Even though it had rained recently, it tossed everything out as it passed back and forth. The antenna never got stuck, I found no need for goggles for protection from flying debris. There were times when it started to ride up on particularly full areas. That's when you need to back down and inch forward slowly, and for me, it managed to clear all of them nicely.
I would suggest to Wiley, W., and Dogfather who each gave this device a one star rating, that if they had not let their gutters get in such bad shape in the first place this device would do a great job for them. I didn't even need the kite string to pull it back to me since it never got stuck. But I wouldn't send it out without the string anyway, just in case.
Great Machine!, November 28, 2007
By A. Wade Manning (Maryland) - See all my reviews
I had decided not to buy this product after reading poor reviews from 3 others. Then I got an estimate of $400 to clean my gutters. I figured for $99 I might as well try the robot. My house is on a steep hill and in many places my ladder will not reach to the gutters. The thought of it getting stuck in a place I could not reach led me to attach a kite string to the robot, 'just in case'. If you do that, make sure you tend the string so as not to back over it, or it will wind around the auger. (You can guess how I found that out).
I was shocked to find that the robot did everything it is advertised to do. Even though it had rained recently, it tossed everything out as it passed back and forth. The antenna never got stuck, I found no need for goggles for protection from flying debris. There were times when it started to ride up on particularly full areas. That's when you need to back down and inch forward slowly, and for me, it managed to clear all of them nicely.
I would suggest to Wiley, W., and Dogfather who each gave this device a one star rating, that if they had not let their gutters get in such bad shape in the first place this device would do a great job for them. I didn't even need the kite string to pull it back to me since it never got stuck. But I wouldn't send it out without the string anyway, just in case.