Here's the mistake we see all over town. Somebody leans a leaf blower over the roof edge, blasts the loose stuff out, and calls it clean. The packed layer at the bottom stays put, and so does the plug down in the elbow. Come the next hard rain, water sheets over the edge and lands right at the house. On these low, flat lots, that water sits instead of draining off. It soaks in along your slab or crawlspace, and that costs real money to undo. We do this job the slow way. We scoop by hand, flush every downspout, and prove the flow before we go.
Cayce sits on the west bank of the Congaree River, straight across from downtown Columbia, on some of the lowest, flattest ground in the Midlands. The heart of it is the Avenues, a grid of bungalows and brick ranches built in the 1940s and 50s when veterans came home and the Blossom Street bridge tied Cayce to Columbia. This is old brick country in the most literal way: the Guignard family dug clay out of these river bottoms for two centuries, and the beehive kilns of the Guignard Brick Works still stand near the river. The Cayce Riverwalk and the wooded Timmerman Trail run along the Congaree, and the river bottom keeps the ground and the air damp, so shaded lots in Riverland Park and the Avenues hold moisture long after the rain stops. Newer subdivisions like Hunter's Mill and Moss Creek fill in toward the south end of town.
From Pinewood, Hunter's Mill, and Edenwood, Cayce homeowners count on us for gutter cleaning done right.