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Lehigh Valley's Safest Choice for Your Roofing and Seamless Gutter Needs |
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Eliminate Clogged Gutters Forever! |
| As a homeowner, you or someone you hire cleans out your gutters about twice a year. You do it because you know it's important to maintain efficient water flow and drainage off your roof and away from your home. Let Holencik Roofing, LLC install The LEAFPROOF™ Gutter Guard System onto your home and you'll eliminate clogged gutters forever. |
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Benefits of LEAFPROOF™ |
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How LEAFPROOF™ Works |
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| When rain hits your roof, no matter how steep it is, the water simply flows down off of the shingles, onto the drip edge (a metal strip installed under the shingles), and into the back of the gutter. The reason that the front of the gutter is approximately 4 inches from the back is to give water carrying capacity to the gutter and to allow space for the gutter to collect areas of concentrated water flow. LEAFPROOF™ was designed with this in mind. There is an "S” curve that runs the length of each 4-foot piece of LEAFPROOF™, giving the piece an "upper” and "lower” section. This "S” curve is a natural bending point, which allows the installer to custom fit the upper section of LEAFPROOF™ to match the pitch of your roof, enabling the lower section to remain relatively flat. Water flowing off the roof will follow the contour of the "S” curve slowing the speed of the water flow. The water adheres to the contour of the "nose” of LEAFPROOF™ allowing it to flow down and backwards into the water channel, falling into the gutter and out the downspouts. The scientific principle that allows the flow of water to "adhere” to the contour of LEAFPROOF™ and flow backwards is called surface tension. |
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Surface tension is best described as what happens when you begin to slowly
tip a full glass of water. The water will run down the side of the glass and
drip off of the bottom of it, rather than be poured out in a stream as if it
was coming from a pitcher's spout. Because the water will adhere to the
contour of LEAFPROOF'S™ nose and
flow down and backwards, surface tension allows the nose of
LEAFPROOF™ to extend over and
virtually cover the water channel from above, shielding it from debris.
Serving the Lehigh Valley and the Poconos since 1980 |
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