Gutter Run
Autumn's coming down. The damp is waiting.
You're up on the eave with a scoop. Every leaf you don't catch lands in the gutter, every section that fills overflows when the rain comes, and everything that overflows goes down the brickwork. Nobody makes it out of November dry.
Score
0
Caught
0
Best
0
Month
September
Playing on a computer
A and D work too. Or use the buttons above — they work with a mouse as well as a thumb.
How to play
- 1Catch the leaves before they land. Walk the eave and get the scoop under them. They flutter — the spot they're over isn't the spot they'll land, and the wind gets worse as the season turns.
- 2Scoop out what gets past you. Missed leaves pile up in the gutter, section by section. Stand over a run and scoop — one load per dig, so a blocked section takes deliberate seconds to clear. Choose which runs get them.
- 3When the rain warning sounds, you're on the clock. Any section that's full when the rain lands overflows straight down the wall, and the damp meter only goes one way.
- 4Survive the months. September is a stroll. Every month the leaves come faster, the wind swings harder and the rain comes sooner. A month where the wall doesn't get worse pays a dry-month bonus — that's the real score.
Catch streaks stack — consecutive catches climb the multiplier up to ×8, and one leaf hitting the gutter resets it.
Right — the bit that isn't a game
A gutter clear is one of the cheapest visits we do. A blocked gutter is one of the dearest things on a house to ignore — the water that can't get to the downpipe goes over the back edge and down the brickwork, wet brick pulls the water inwards, and by the time damp shows on a bedroom wall you're into plaster, skirting and decorating, not a morning's ladder work.
In the game the damp meter fills in minutes. On a real house it takes one autumn of not looking up.
Free, no obligation, written quote. WeatherTech Roofing Mansfield Ltd — NFRC member, covering Mansfield and the East Midlands.
Reckon you can keep a wall dry?
Send it to whoever hasn't looked at their gutters since spring. weather-tech.co.uk/gutter-run