Gutter Repair & Replacement

Thousands of litres a year, moved safely off your walls.

Gutters are the most underestimated part of the roof. A modest roof sheds tens of thousands of litres a year, and the gutter's job is to put every litre in the drain rather than down your walls — where it saturates brickwork, bridges cavities, rots fascias and paints those tell-tale green streaks. A large share of "rising damp" and "penetrating damp" investigations end at a failed gutter.

Gutters fail undramatically: joints perish and drip (the classic tapping you hear at night), brackets tire and the run loses its fall so water sits and overflows mid-run, downpipes block at the bends, and older cast iron rusts through along the back where nobody sees. Each is fixable — and each does slow, cumulative damage while ignored.

We clear, re-align, repair and replace in uPVC, deeper high-capacity profiles, and aluminium or cast-look systems for period frontages — sized to the actual roof area draining into them, which is where undersized original gutters have often struggled from day one.

Benefits

Why choose Gutter Repair & Replacement

Falls reset so water actually reaches the outlet
Capacity sized to your roof, ending chronic overflow
Leaking joints and tired brackets renewed
Cast-look aluminium options for period property
Damp-wall problems traced to gutters honestly

Features

What's included

uPVC half-round, square and deep-flow profiles
Aluminium and cast-effect systems
Downpipe replacement and re-routing
Gutter clearing and maintenance visits
Leaf guards where trees demand them

Typical lifespan

25–30 years (uPVC)

Repair options

Repair or replace

Rules of thumb: one dripping joint on a sound run — new union, minutes of work. A run that\'s lost its line — re-bracketing and re-levelling, no new gutter needed. Multiple failures on brittle, UV-faded plastic — replacement, because each repair stresses the next section. And before any of it: clearing, since half of all "failed" gutters are simply full. If your walls show damp patches or green staining below the gutter line, start with damp after heavy rain — the gutter is suspect number one.

Common questions

Frequently asked

Water pours over the gutter in heavy rain but it's not blocked — why? +

Either the fall is wrong (water can't reach the outlet fast enough), the outlet or downpipe is the real blockage, or the gutter is genuinely undersized for the roof feeding it — common where extensions added roof area to an unchanged gutter. Each has a distinct, permanent fix; more clearing isn't it.

How often should gutters be cleared? +

Annually as a rule, twice yearly under trees — autumn after leaf-fall being the key visit. Moss-shedding roofs fill gutters faster than leaves do, so a mossy roof upgrades the schedule. Grass visibly growing in the gutter means you're at least two years overdue.

Are leaf guards worth fitting? +

Under overhanging trees, good-quality guards genuinely reduce clearing frequency and are worth their cost. Cheap brush and foam inserts, however, can trap silt and make gutters harder to clean — we'll recommend guards where they help and say plainly where they won't.