For most of my adult life, my wife and I have owned our home. The house we are living in now is a two story but still has fairly low eves. Cleaning the spouting has been a job that made me get out the extension ladder and fiddle getting it up there and then climbing to the roof with the garden hose and spending half the day hosing out the spouting, pulling out the grim and leaves and crap. It's a long, messing, wet and time consuming period that I just hate dealing with.