Step on up Miss May!
Gutter cleaning, spouting clearing, gutter flushing, hydroponic gardening. Call it what you will, it's a job that just needs to be done.
This run of spouting is justifiably our poster pic of the month. This isn't just seasonal leaves, this is decomposition leading to grass growing in a soil medium. In fairness, and by way of disclosure, this was tucked behind a wisteria and the elderly concrete tiles had contributed a lot of sandy grit to the rotting leaves.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: clearing your spouting is the most cost effective piece of building maintenance there is. It costs so little to achieve so much.
Some spouting profiles (this was one) have a lower back edge. That means any overflow will naturally go over the back of the spouting. If you have an incomplete fascia for whatever reason (generally rot), water runs over the back, through the fascia, across the soffit and into the wall. I've seen time and again and it's so easy to avoid. Just keep the spouting clear, let the water run where it's supposed to run and you'll have no problems at all.
At this time of year we're cleaning gutters, clearing spouting, flushing gutters literally by the kilometre. Give us a call and we'll take care of yours for you along with all the rest!

...but very often it is!
Architects currently LOVE black houses - fact.
There's a good reason for that; black and white houses look great. The contrast of black and white, or black and stone creates a real impact.
Unfortunately, black creates impact in another way - it shows every speck of dirt, spider silk, algae, or anything else that comes along and sticks to the exterior of your otherwise beautiful black house.
And it gets more challenging yet; a matt black linear clad home is about the toughest propositions when it comes to washing a house. Anyone can have a go at it but not anyone can do it well. 
Which is where we come in. The image above is of a house we washed recently that had been liberally coated in thick clay dust. It was hard work but the house responded really well to our tender care. And tender is the operative word here. While the challenge looked like it needed a firm hand, it in fact needed the utmost caution because matt black linear will lose its finish straight away if an unskilled operator gets anywhere near it. Less is most definitely more in this instance.
So if you have a black house and you're worried about the paint being marred; or if you're an architect and you've specified a black finish, give us a call here at Green Agenda and we'll take care of the finish better than the rest.