Leichhardt is a lively and character-filled inner west suburb with a vibrant street culture and a dense heritage streetscape, and its canopy of mature fig trees, plane trees, and established native plantings creates consistent and demanding gutter maintenance conditions for homeowners across the area. The suburb’s large fig trees are particularly unrelenting in their debris output, dropping leaves, fruit, and organic matter onto the rooftops of Leichhardt’s many terrace and Federation homes throughout the year in quantities that can block gutters and downpipes with remarkable speed. Heavy storm events rolling through the inner west hit these tightly packed terrace properties hard, and with complex shared roof lines and ageing guttering systems common across the suburb, blocked gutters in Leichhardt can cause water damage that spreads quickly and proves expensive to properly address.