LeafTek Gutter Guards for Leaves 5" x 100' Black – Heavy-Duty Premium Aluminum Gutter Cover System with Vented Raised Ridge – DIY-Friendly Leaf Guard – USA Made – Lifetime Protection

I have been doing gutters for 20+ years these are some of the best leaf guards that I have come across, yet easy enough for home owners to install.

These perform higher than my expectations. I've tried the big box stores off the shelf gutter guards and they all were terrible. I did a lot of research into different gutter leaf guards, reviews, cost, installation instructions and techniques. These Leafetek gutter guards are a solid, legit, high performing gutter guard. I live I'm Chicagoland, installed these this past fall. Easy install once you dry-fit a few pieces in order to format a plan. Installing left to right or right to left made no difference to me. Some of my gutters, rather new ones, were not exactly even far as width. This challenged install by needing to maneuver and negotiate the gutter and guard to ensure fit prior to screwing guards in place. This was a fun and rewarding project. I installed on my house and separate 4 car garage.Far as performance... wow, no complaints. At all! Fall leaves, not a problem, did not collect, did not block. Bitter cold, snow and ice, yes a few icicles, less than prior to Leaftek gutter guards. Only a few. The design allowed melting to take place pretty quickly. No clogs or blockages. Spring downpours, and I mean heavy deluge of rain, not a problem. The Leaftek gutter guards kept up with demand, never overflowed, never was there more rain than these could handle. I am very impressed and super glad I ordered and installed them. I recommend angled aluminum cutting shears, cordless drill, tape measure, straight edge to ensure you are cutting correctly and a marker or similar for marking cut lines and corner points. I was intimidated by the measuring, cutting and screwing these to my gutters. After initial first few, it became pretty simple. A home DYIer can definitely install these on a single story home. Multiple stories I can not speak to installation, only to performance.I am very pleased. Wish I did this years ago.

Install was easy. Fit was good. Sleek and unnoticeable from ground level. Really helps with keeping the gutters cleaner. Haven't seen how long they will last. Did not like how the screws to attach on the backside were not accessible when installed.

I only qualify this with “in my estimation” because since installing these LeafTek gutter guards, they have not yet had the chance to perform their function. Though from my inspection of the product I have no reason to believe they will not when the time comes.They are very sturdy and seem to be produced to acceptable tolerances, consistent among themselves such that they came together quite easily when installing them.One thing I would deduct a couple of points for is that I was not provided with enough screws to follow the 5 screws/panel rubric as set forth in the instructions. I was only 2 short, but of course didn’t notice until I was nearing the installation of the last panel. I had 3 screws for the last panel so I was going to install what I had and just hope that was adequate. As I was installing the first screw into my final panel, a gust of wind blew the little baggie with the other 2 screws in it down and out into the alley behind my house. For as much as 3 might have been adequate, 1 was clearly not going to be. I climbed down off of my roof and went in search of the little baggie in my alley and was fortunate enough to find it. I climbed back up on my roof and finished installing the last panel.It has always been a puzzlement to me why companies that sell products that require some double or triple digit numbers of fasteners in order to assemble whatever the product is, don’t just as a standard practice throw in a single extra just for good measure. There have been times where I’ve dropped a screw down into a place where it couldn’t be retrieved, and it has happened with both scenarios, where I was supplied an extra, and when I wasn’t, and it made a world of difference in terms of the ease in which I completed them both.I gave this product 5 stars all the way, because I really do believe it is a quality product, and I was surprised at how well it fit onto my gutters and how easy it was to install. I’m just hoping the last of the panels truly is secure enough with only three screws.

I have had these installed for a year now. They work excellently in fall for leaves and maple helicopters in the spring are no problem. I have noted that spring oak tassels and ash seeds do sometimes get caught. No problems with ice in the winter (I got black in the hopes of melting quicker with the sun).If you do not have a ladder with feet and it's too dangerous to work from the roof you can bend slightly to get them installed. Corners on my house took a little bit because the gutters weren't as wide as in the straight runs. Don't be in a hurry and install will go fine. Set of snips, measuring tape, speed square, marker are a few extra items that you will probably find useful.They save me 16+ hours each year of gutter cleaning at heights. Very happy with them.