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Originally Posted by Chingyul
Legally, yeah, anything on your side of the property line, you can cut. That said, it is probably a good idea to let them know.
My turn. When do you guys clean your gutters?
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When they get plugged?
My house is a flat roof so I don't have gutters, but there are drains in all four corners of the house, and two on the garage/carport. I check them when I put up Christmas lights in the fall, and again in the spring, but they have never been plugged.
In my old house I never checked the gutters, until one day during a rain storm I realised that there was more water coming out of the side of the gutter than the drain. So, I bought these:
https://www.homedepot.ca/en/home/p.5...000685616.html and continued to never check the gutters.
As for raking. I don't have much raking in my current house. The leaves across the street fall and blow under a cedar bush in my front yard, and I try to pick it all up before the snow falls. I get no leaves in my backyard. Mostly pine trees in my area aside from two birch trees across the street from me.
My old house was a different story. I didn't have a backyard, and the neighbour behind me had the largest oak tree in the history of oak trees right at the edge of our yards. It covered much of my back yard, which was great for sun shade, but I gathered 20-30 bags of leaves (mulched) each fall. The first year I was at that house, I was raking leaves into a pile and the neighbour lady screamed into her house to her husband "They better not dump those leaves over the fence onto our yard". The thought hadn't crossed my mind, but for 10 years, whenever the leaves started to fall, it was all I could think about. My last fall at that house I wished I had known that we would decide to move the following summer. Also, after that first year, I bought a blower/vac that mulched the leaves because it was easier to deal with 1/3 of the garbage bags.