How To Whiten Gutters

Gutters should be cleaned at least twice a year to avoid clogged downspouts and mildew.

How to whiten gutters.

The gutters have a very thin coat of baked on paint. Gutters can become stained with unsightly dark lines which can be difficult to remove. These marks called tiger stripes are caused by a variety of reasons. Gutters are used to help catch the water running off of the roof along with other debris like leaves and sticks from surrounding trees.

The white ceiling and the white gutter lines perfectly complement the vibrant walls and roof of the home. Scrub the outside of your vinyl gutters with this solution but don t let it stand more than 10 minutes before stirring it in your bucket and rinse off with your hose and sprayer attachment. General purpose cleaning products like simple green work well. Use a soft bristled scrub brush with a pole attachment to gently remove the gunk from the outside of the gutters.

If you want to clean the insides of your gutters from the muck add some white vinegar and warm water to a bucket. Spray a gutter cleaner on a small section of the outside of the gutters. But it can ruin the whole exterior appearance of your house if the white gutter gets stained. Hold the bottle a few inches from the gutter and spray liberally.

If your gutters aren t too dirty you can probably skip this step and go straight on to the rinsing part. I used a product that was meant for cleaning plastic garden furniture because it also cleaned almost everything else that regular cleaners could not and after spraying it on the gutters and wiping it off it started to dissolve the baked on paint and i had to stop. White is the common color of gutters around the united states. But ours were really bad and needed a bit of elbow grease to scrub off the heavy buildup.

Roofing tar and asphalt can leach down on the gutter while dirt mold and pollutants can become electrostatically bonded to the gutter s paint.