Old House Handyman: It's the season for gutter and drainpipe cleaning

• Clogged gutters can lead to basement flooding and foundation damage. • A large, old maple tree overhanging the house was removed due to safety concerns. • Despite the tree's removal, debris still clogs the gutters, requiring regular cleaning. I figured that after the monster in my daughter’s front yard was gone, I would be free of gutter-cleaning duty. But all of the recent wind and rain managed to find little sticks, bits of leaves and those maple-seed helicopters from elsewhere and fly them right into her second-story rain gutters....