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Smartflo's low maintenance gutter offers an integrated steel gutter and gutter guard.

The problem of decomposing organic matter in house gutters has been a perpetual problem for many years. Traditionally, solutions have relied on various kinds of screens fitted over the gutter to separate leaves and other organic matter from rainwater. These are often plagued with siltation, and can also catch and hold leaves on the roof.

Using intelligent design principles, Smartflo gutter has been manufactured to optimise rainwater catchment, while minimising gutter maintenance. The broad, shallow pre-gutter presents a smooth surface on which leaves land. The shallow profile promotes drying, and provides opportunity for moderate breezes to blow leaves off the top of the pre-gutter. Domed polymer filters inserted every 500mm in the pre-gutter, allow water to pass from the upper pre gutter into the running channel below. By keeping the organic matter separate from the collected water, the organic decay which is so common place in conventional quad gutter, is prevented, improving water quality and increasing the longevity of the gutter.