Bennington, Nebraska
Gutter protection for the metro's newest corner.
Bennington sits at the growing northwest edge of the metro, about a 10-minute drive from the Elkhorn plant where LeaFree® is made. New rooftops go up here every season, many of them big two-story homes with complex rooflines, and they land right next to the old farmsteads and windbreaks that came before the subdivisions.
LeaFree is about a 10-minute drive from the plant.
Why do Bennington gutters clog if the trees are young?
The landscaping in a new Bennington development can look too young to be a problem, but the debris rarely comes from the yard trees. It blows in. The area is still stitched with mature farmstead windbreaks and shelterbelts: rows of eastern red cedar, pine, and towering cottonwood planted decades ago to break the wind off open ground. Cedar and pine drop fine needles, cottonwood drops its June fluff, and all of it travels on that same wind straight into open gutters. A solid LeaFree hood sheds the fine stuff a mesh screen would trap.
Bennington has two kinds of homes that both suit LeaFree. The new-construction two-stories often have valleys, steep pitches, and second-story downspouts dumping onto first-story gutters: that is exactly what the High-Flow panel with its pill vents is designed to swallow. The acreage properties, with mature trees close to the house, get the most obvious payoff, because those are the gutters that fill fastest. Either way the plant is 10 minutes off, so scheduling and service stay simple.
Bennington gutter questions
Do you install on Bennington acreages, not just subdivisions?
Yes. Acreage homes with mature trees close to the roof are some of the best cases for a solid hood, because those are the gutters that clog fastest. We measure the same way whether it is a new subdivision two-story or an older place on land.
My lot has old cedar and pine windbreaks. Will a solid hood handle needles?
Yes, and this is where a solid hood beats mesh. Fine needles are exactly what mats into and blinds a micro-mesh screen over time. LeaFree has no mesh: needles land on the hood, dry out, and blow off the nose-forward edge.