The product I am reviewing is the WORX Gutterpro Universal Gutter Cleaning Kit WA4096 and I am using it with WG 543E (which is a 5* great bit of kit)The good news. It was delivered within 48 hours!A bit of looking around resulted in finding a code and getting £8 off the rather excessive price of £50 for the kit of a few pieces of extruded plastic!Each of the 4 extension tubes that come with it are identical meaning you can use any combination and don’t have to use the max configuration to do a first floor gutter.The not so good news:I think this must have been designed for the US market as the diameter of the end curved tube is too great to fit easily into a UK gutter without catching on the roof tiles and/or gutter clips. A small extension tube reducing the diameter would enable one to place the nozzle into the gutter and blast everything out.At maximum length, the kit is almost too long for a ground floor/ garage gutter but NOT long enough to reach the higher first floor gutters of the average UK home. At 6’3” I had to stand on a platform giving me an extra couple of feet reach to get the top tube near the gutter. At full extension there is a considerable amount of ‘wobble’ in the tubes. Others have described it as fragility but whilst the poles are sturdy the device can be difficult to guide around the gutter clips and roof tiles due to the waving about. This seems to be in part down to the fixture near the ‘wind’ source being able to rotate. The slack involved is exaggerated by both the air coming out of the top pipe at speed and the length of the kit. I am contemplating fixing something like glass fibre tent poles to give it a little extra rigidity and maybe taping some of the joints.Though the length of the kit seems to create some problems, it is a great shame that there doesn’t seem to be an extra tube available as it would then make it suitable for UK houses (if stability doesn’t get out of hand)The debris in my gutters was wet when I tried the device out. The contents were spread pretty far and wide when I ran it along my garage gutter and I would expect when dry, what parts can be reached will be fully removed even faster.All in all, with adaptions and platforms, I think it may do the job I’m hoping it will, but a few mods for the UK market would make it so much more effective and user friendly. WORX might consider selling single tubes (unless they have tried adding one on and found additional problems), it would help a lot of UK customers.
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