U Do It gutter cleaning quest is more than just a how to clean your gutters. Join me on this quest to see how I setup my Little Giant ladder and clean out my gutters. There’s some side quests awaiting you.
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The main questline began on Thursday morning I was awoken to the sound of a squirrel digging in our gutter. This is the second time I heard it and I rushed to my window and saw him pop his head out. I ran outside and saw him running away and then stopping and looking at me as if he know. I setup my small fiberglass ladder and got a peak of the gutter with my phone.
That evening I setup my cameras and began capturing “What would U Do It do?”. I try to maintain focus on the task at hand: inspecting the gutter and eves and then cleaning out the gutter.
Ladder Safety
Ladder safety training is invaluable. There’s a lot that can go wrong and it just doesn’t include falling from the ladder. Please consult a licensed handyman if you are uncomfortable with any part of this project.
The ladder that I use is the Little Giant, which is rated for 300lbs. This ladder is very strong. You can configure this ladder in a few different ways. It can even act as a trestle for holding a plank. I was able to configure it in a way to allow me to get close to the gutter.
Vacuum Hose
I have several 2 1/2 inch vacuum hoses that I use and join them together with a coupler. This works well, especially when you need to climb a ladder and you do not want to hold a vacuum.
Equipment Used
The following tools were used:
- Ultra-Tall Multi-Position Ladder for High Ceilings & Stairwells, Non-Slip Feet, Safety Straps, Type IAA 375 lbs. Rating
- REACH WHAT OTHERS CAN’T: Adjusts to reach high ceilings, stairwells, chandeliers, and skylights where lifts and scaffolding are bulky or impractical.
- SET UP IN SECONDS: Quickly adjust the ladder’s height and shape using the U Locks and Palm Buttons for fast, secure positioning.
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What’s Next
Later that evening I continued with the main questline and installed LED lights on the front of the house. That adventure is next.
Video Transcript: A squirrel was trying to get into our house
all right we got a squirrel that is uh determined to either get in our house or destroy our gutter I’m not sure what so now I got to go get our big ladder not a really big ladder I got a little giant goes up 17t in the air I’m talking about my next smaller model but I got so much stuff in the shed that now I have to I got to pull stuff out of the shed so I can get to that ladder the ladder is not something I commonly get so I leave it in the back I feel the pain though when I do have to get it I know I’m not alone uh but there’s things that I do need right now that I’ll use for this job and that is um these hoses for the vacuum cuz I need to vacuum out the gutter anyway so might as well get these out now and I have a adapter for it that lets me join the hoses together I think I only have one of them though but if I really need to I got Gorilla Tape
and of course I need the vacuum
itself yeah I’m really happy with this
vacuum I don’t know about you but I still got more stuff to do I got hooks like these that I bought that will let me organize things in here but then I got a bunch of other stuff that’s either higher priority or shiny object so then I go after them instead I know I’m not alone there
so these wheels still have a little bit of air in them from when I filled them up
last and I have saws from my cousin that I thought I could fix but it’s turning out to be something larger the one I’m able to handle right now and one of the things I wanted to do was 3D print a piece for
it but of course my 3D printer stopped working it’s not not that it stopped working it’s just that the uh bed I need to replace the Pei sheet and if you don’t know what that is that’s just the thingy on the bed that lets you uh that the print material actually actually sticks
too it’s a chilly day today colder than normal I mean it’s not cold but I work out in this weather
but it is a little
chilly oops put this up in this area up here so I know where it is put it up here yes
sir all right so not this lighter the next lighter and of course there’s another saw here in the way so do I have room to use the dolly to get it out I don’t think so
so we can slide it out of the way so I got to make room to where I’m going to slide it to of
course you know I bought these there was a store called Woodworkers Warehouse uh the closest one that we had at the time was in Delaware and then they opened up one in defford and it was really a candy store for me so that’s where I bought them
you know I wouldn’t mind setting up the plank but that means I got to get the really big ladder so yeah I’m not going to do that I’m not in the mood to move the big Li
o yeah here we go big letter
yes sir I want you to witness this
setup this the kind of stuff that we all have to do I know
all right so this here just extend this
up really should put some WD40 on these guys
all right let’s see
here maybe
here and this one this way try to make it stand up right all right
put him in I got them both locked
in best
way H interesting so let’s see if I come down another
let’s see let’s take it uh right
here all
right need to get my other camera CU I want you to see what I’m doing
above so I know when I go to shoot these videos I’m never fully prepared I always have to do something extra let’s see so like you saw I had to leave to go get my other camera I thought about it but then I’m like yeah you know what I’ll worry about later so in the middle of filming I have to leave and go get
it so I’m just set up my GoPro here not too tight I don’t want that to crack cuz if that cracks we’re
done all right so we’re just going to set up this camera up
here so no I’ll do it uh this way here
there we
go and then I’ll plug in my
power let’s see let’s reposition this guy
yep all right this is an articulating arm I love this
thing right now I could probably put this back here might need to angle it more
okay I’ll start
recording see we see the gutter yeah so right about there like so just want to capture a little bit about what I’m doing up here oh yeah
all right now I get to use the outlet that I just installed last
night one of the reasons why I installed the outlet I didn’t foresee this happening but I’m like you know there’s going to be I didn’t foresee this exact circumstance but I’m like you know what there’ll be a reason and last night I was like ah n I’ll never use it here we
are yeah buddy
sh
how’s there a whole branch in here
all right
come on
these were uh part of saw horses that I was
building hey now
here we go
come
on thought I would
stay get The Ridges stuck on there
all right
what are you
doing I’m going to get video of you doing that I’m getting video of you doing that
oh
so we heard a squirrel out here like digging in the gutter so I just vacuumed it out I don’t see any evidence of any squirrel scratchings or anything but he was doing a lot of scratching I don’t see anything and there’s my neighbor he’s up there cleaning out his chimney say hi to Joe hi Joe
I got you on video say hi to the say hi to my audience
Video Chapters
0:00 Squirrel in the Gutter
0:35 Quest 1: Getting the Ladder
0:58 Side Quest: Getting the Vacuum
1:50 Shiny Object Syndrome
2:40 Quest 1 Continued: Making a Path to the Ladder
4:40 Woodworkers Warehouse
5:40 Behold – The Little Giant Ladder
6:20 Quest 2: Setup of the Ladder
7:50 Positioning Ladder to Reach Gutter
8:23 Setup of 3rd GoPro Camera
11:15 Quest 3: Setup of Vacuum
11:48 The Main Quest: Vacuuming Gutter to Clean up Leaves
13:58 Moving the Ladder and Camera
16:16 Moving the Vacuum and Camera into Position
17:45 Cleaning out the end of the Gutter
19:42 My Neighbor Joe is Chimney Sweeping
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