Common Types of "Gutter Protection"
(How the Competition Fails)

- HYBRIDS -

WATERFALL

Based on this writer’s experience, The Waterfall system (patent #5,010,696) is the grandest “gutter protection” fraud inflicted on the American homeowner.

My first experience with their “product” was with a retired person near Asheville, NC. She had recently bought the house in a retirement community and observed that in a rain, the water came over the gutters like they were not there.

She had found our product on the Internet and called me. I was in Charlotte at the time (about 2 hours away) and drove to see her early the next morning. She was rather distraught over the situation and signed a contract that morning with us to replace her Waterfall (no pun intended).

Two days later, I went back to Asheville to assist our installers with the installation and to get some hands-on experience with replacement of a product that was new to me at the time.

When we removed the first Waterfall panel, we realized that her gutters were full of debris and shingle grit (one or more inches deep in most places in the bottom of her gutters). It seems to me that anyone with a double digit IQ could see and understand that the previous owner(s) had been sold a dishonest bill of goods. The last I heard, the company is still selling their junk. 

WATERLOOV

Our take on the Waterloove system is that it is a modified reverse curve system. Our knowledge is limited with this system as it is not a major player, at least not in our part of the country. It is probably a slight improvement over the major reverse curve brands, but from pictures we've seen there seems to be three significant design deficiencies:

1. The double row of short slits instead on one long slit will tend to break the adhesion and create more over shoot.
2. Small debris that doesn't go into the gutter will still get snagged and block these slits creating even more overshoot as seen on the pictures above.
3. Where your gutters are high against the underside of your roof shingles (away from the downspouts), the design of this product requiring a taller front side (where the slits are located) will create a reverse water flow. We see fascia and soffitt rot as an increased risk with this product.