People mix up two different gutter jobs, so it is worth sorting them out. The first is clearing the inside, pulling the packed pine straw and leaf litter out of the trough and making sure the downspouts actually run. The second is brightening the outside, the black tiger stripes that streak down the face of the gutter. Those streaks are not dirt you can rinse off, they are a weathered oxidation that needs its own brightener wash, and clearing the clog does nothing for them. Out here the pine needles and hardwood litter come down hard on the established homes around Friarsgate and Seven Oaks. The inside fills up fast and the front streaks over. We hand-scoop the trough, flush every downspout until it runs clear, and if you want the gutters looking new again, we brighten the face as a separate step. We tell you straight which one your gutters need.
Irmo sits northwest of Columbia in the Dutch Fork, the old German-settled stretch of country between the Broad and Saluda rivers. The town took its name from two railroad men, Iredell and Moseley, and grew up around the Harbison corridor and Saint Andrews Road into a settled suburban place. The bones of it are the established 1970s and 1980s subdivisions, Friarsgate and Seven Oaks among them, sitting under a thick canopy of pine and hardwood, with newer growth still going up around the edges. The Okra Strut festival fills Irmo Community Park every fall, Harbison State Forest runs eighteen miles of trail down toward the Broad River, and out on the Ballentine side the town runs right up to Lake Murray. Dutch Fork schools anchor the place. Most of the homes are vinyl and brick on mature, tree-shaded lots, so the north-facing walls, the roofs tucked under the canopy, and the older concrete out front all green up fast in the Midlands humidity. The town straddles two counties, Lexington and Richland.
We bring our gutter cleaning to Ballentine Estates, Heatherstone, and Seven Oaks and the rest of Irmo, with the same crew and the same care.