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Guttering gutters

It's been a dry summer, but that hasn't stopped my gutters from driving me mad. The patch job the guys did last February didn't hold at all and every time it's rained, the leaking of the gutters has driven me mad. I hear it, the dripping on the downstairs window flashing, the dripping on the oven vent.

So finally I called the Handyman of Choice, who I should have had work on the roof in the first place, except that I'd thought he'd retired. Turns out, he's planning to retire next year, at which point he'll cut back to working only forty hours a week.

He came last week and did something to the gutters. He scraped them out, lined them with Peel-N-Seal, and slapped more patching cement around. Then he collected his check and disappeared.

I've been wondering whether he did a good job, but it hasn't rained. I figure it's just as well. Any day I don't hear my gutters leak is a good day, rain or shine.

It finally started raining this evening, and I couldn't even tell till I went into the kitchen and could hear it pounding on the tin porch roof. Yay for the HoC!