This is one of Alex Higginbotham’s best teaching videos. It covers a strong gutter guard test with weight (Alex sits on the system) to show how strong MasterShield is once installed.

Alex goes on to explain what the memory of metal is and what it does to give a naturally thin metal lots of added strength in ways you do want while avoiding ways where strength, or more important, rigidity, become a disadvantage to both your gutter and, even more importantly, your roof.

MasterShield naturally has front to back flexibility and side to side rigidity.  Front to back flexibility gives the product the ability to adapt to the conditions a dealer may find at your home: wavy fascia boards, an uneven sub roof and the fact that your gutters will drop in the direction of the downspout so that water flows away from you home.  Side to side rigidity means that MasterShield will not collapse over time and buckle under the weight of snow or debris.

A gutter guard that sits flat or virtually flat over your gutter can create a shelf that will trap debris.  Trap debris can lead to its own problems and its why roof gutter slope should be addressed in the gutter guard itself.

Debris that sits on flat gutter guards becomes densely packed and water can’t get through it.  On top of that, it stays wet longer and can even cause water in the debris to get pulled up and into your roof shingles or sub roof where it can cause expensive problems.

Learn why gutter guard innovator and MasterShield inventor Alex Higginbotham doesn’t like products that sit flat and what he’s learned about flat systems from his original designs.

He also explains why a product that is pitched like the roof will do a better job of taking in water and shedding debris.

Alex Higginbotham, the Father of Microfiltration explains why MasterShield is the best gutter guard and why it should be your choice in gutter protection.

Leaf Filter vs MasterShield – which is inventor Alex Higginbotham’s latest technology?

After several product failures, in 2001, a struggling roofing and siding contractor invented the world’s first gutter guard to feature a microfilter. His name was Alex Higginbotham. Alex also taught himself to write patents.

In 2003 he was awarded a patent on his first invention.  It was a microfiltration gutter guard  His patent was US 6,598,352 and he named his invention LeafFilter®. It was the most innovative gutter guard anyone had ever seen.

No one could believe a gutter guard could work so well. Except Alex, who was getting input from the field, both from his installers and from homeowners who had the system installed.  Based on their feedback, and what he was learning about microfiltration, he felt there was room for improvment.

He continued his inventing.  His fourth patent was just as groundbreaking as his first: US7,191,564.

LeafFilter®+ US7,191,564 = MasterShield.

Alex Higginbotham tests MasterShield gutter guard strength by going back to a four year old system and “bounces” a 20lb dumbbell on it, showing that the memory of metal in the product causes it to spring back to its original shape. He then checks back on the same spot when it’s covered with almost 2 feet of snow. No issues on this home.

Let us give you a brief overview of MasterShield, the problems we prevent and why we’re different in just two minutes.

In this MasterShield Gutter Guard test, microfiltration inventor Alex Higginbotham took the microfilter and smothered it with oil, syrup and honey.  This has become Alex Higginbotham’s trademark gutter guard test.

Alex explains the rational for the test in the first few minutes of the video.  You can skip ahead to the actual test which begins at 6:51.  We’ve included a stopwatch right in the test to show how quickly the oil, syrup and honey washes away.

We challenge any other gutter guard to this test to self clean of all of these materials as efficiently and effectively.

This is one of Alex Higginbotham’s best teaching videos. It covers a strong gutter guard test with weight (Alex sits on the system) to show how strong MasterShield is once installed.

Alex goes on to explain what the memory of metal is and what it does to give a naturally thin metal lots of added strength in ways you do want while avoiding ways where strength, or more important, rigidity, become a disadvantage to both your gutter and, even more importantly, your roof.

MasterShield naturally has front to back flexibility and side to side rigidity.  Front to back flexibility gives the product the ability to adapt to the conditions a dealer may find at your home: wavy fascia boards, an uneven sub roof and the fact that your gutters will drop in the direction of the downspout so that water flows away from you home.  Side to side rigidity means that MasterShield will not collapse over time and buckle under the weight of snow or debris.

After debris, what is the number one cause of gutter guard failure?  It’s the oils that leach out of roof shingles.  Gutter guard innovator and MasterShield inventor explains why an oil test is one that should be done with all leaf guards reviews.

Alex Higginbotham tests MasterShield gutter guard strength by going back to a four year old system and “bounces” a 20lb dumbbell on it, showing that the memory of metal in the product causes it to spring back to its original shape. He then checks back on the same spot when it’s covered with almost 2 feet of snow. No issues on this home.

Alex Higginbotham’s microfiltration technology took top honors when Consumer Reports tested gutter guards for the first time in 2010.  But they missed the opportunity to test his most recent advancements in gutter guards, those found in MasterShield.

Lots of people claim to have invented microfiltration for gutter guards, but their stories don’t go back as far as MasterShield inventor Alex Higginbotham’s story.  Learn how struggling contractor came to invent self cleaning microfiltration.

You’ll see that he talked about and addressed roof oils as far back as 1999 because they were one of the main reasons gutter guards had failed for so long.  Learn about the start of micro mesh gutter guards from the Father of Microfiltration himself:  Alex Higginbotham.

Alex Higginbotham was interviewed for the launch of the MicroVortex filter.  Watch the Q&A session here.

He answers:

• What is MicroVortex cloth and how does it improve MasterShield?
• How does it work to increase water permeability?
• How does MicroVortex self clean?
• What does MicroVortex mean to a homeowner?

In this video, we cover common gutter guard problems related to tree limb damage. What happens to different systems when they are hit by a limb that has fallen?

In the case of one system, which is an all in one gutter and cover, the system must be completely replaced.

MasterShield was hit by a tree limb which crushed the gutter below.  While MasterShield’s front lip sustained some damage, the system bounded back into place from the memory of metal.  Note that even after the hit, the system doesn’t sag or become depressed over the gutter.

A gutter guard that sits flat or virtually flat over your gutter can create a shelf that will trap debris.  Trap debris can lead to its own problems and its why roof gutter slope should be addressed in the gutter guard itself.

Debris that sits on flat gutter guards becomes densely packed and water can’t get through it.  On top of that, it stays wet longer and can even cause water in the debris to get pulled up and into your roof shingles or sub roof where it can cause expensive problems.

Learn why gutter guard innovator and MasterShield inventor Alex Higginbotham doesn’t like products that sit flat and what he’s learned about flat systems from his original designs.

He also explains why a product that is pitched like the roof will do a better job of taking in water and shedding debris.

Alex Higginbotham, the Father of Microfiltration explains why MasterShield is the best gutter guard and why it should be your choice in gutter protection.

Alex Higginbotham was interviewed for the launch of the MicroVortex filter.  Watch the Q&A session here.

He answers:

• What is MicroVortex cloth and how does it improve MasterShield?
• How does it work to increase water permeability?
• How does MicroVortex self clean?
• What does MicroVortex mean to a homeowner?