Gutter Cleaning in Boldmere

Park leaf, roof moss and the forgotten bay gutter

Three separate things fill gutters in B73 and they arrive at different times. Leaf comes off the park boundary in a concentrated few weeks each autumn, heaviest on the streets closest to Boldmere Gate and around towards Powell’s Pool. Moss sheds off the tiled roofs of the 1930s semis all year, especially the north-facing slopes, and settles as a compacted bed underneath the leaf instead of washing through. And on the semis the small bay roof gutter at the front is a separate short run of its own, low, shallow and easy to forget, which overflows straight down the face of the bay and stains the render below it.

• Continuous runs shared between both halves of many semi pairs, where clearing one side alone may not stop the overflow
• Concentrated autumn leaf fall on the streets closest to Boldmere Gate and the Powell’s Pool side
• Moss shedding off north-facing 1930s tile slopes and compacting into a bed beneath the leaf
• Short bay roof gutters at the front of the semis, which overflow down the face of the bay and stain the render
• Back addition valleys and hidden lengths behind parapets on the post-railway villas, where debris packs out of sight

Bay gutters and villa valleys cleared from the ground

A pole-mounted vacuum worked from ground level to three storeys, with a camera on the head, so the state of the run before and after is something you can see for yourself. We lift the compacted moss bed as well as the loose leaf, since leaving it means the water still stands and the run reblocks by midwinter. Bay roof gutters are cleared as their own item, never assumed into the main length. Downpipes are then flushed through to the gully, because a spotless run above a plugged pipe still tips over the front edge and down the wall.

• Vacuumed from the ground, with nothing resting on villa fascia, old cast iron or a conservatory roof below the line
• The compacted moss bed taken out with the leaf, not just the loose material on top
• Bay roof gutters treated as a separate short run, since they block and overflow independently
• Cracks, sags and split joints photographed and put in front of you, since clearing is all we do and repairs are another trade

More detail on the equipment and the order of work: how we do gutter cleaning, step by step.

Doing both halves of a semi pair at once

Where a 1930s pair shares one gutter length across two houses and your neighbour agrees, we can do the whole run in one visit, because a blockage on their side can back water up onto yours. The same applies down a terraced row nearer the older roads. B73 clears go on scheduled autumn days, so neighbours on the streets by the park boundary can easily book the same one.

Bay, rear run and back addition: the real length of a semi’s gutter

How long the run is, how high it sits and what has packed into it. A 1930s semi with a front bay, a rear run and a back addition has more guttering than the frontage width suggests, and we quote on the actual length, whatever the house looks like from the pavement. Villas price above semis on height and on the awkward back addition valley. A run left five years, with compacted moss and water standing in it, runs longer than a maintained one, so a first visit here is nearly always dearer than the ones after it. Booking both halves of a pair together clears the shared length in one go.

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Annually at least, and never skipped near Boldmere Gate

Annually as an absolute minimum, and on the streets closest to Boldmere Gate the location settles it: one missed autumn there is normally what produces the overflow staining down the wall. Late autumn is the visit that matters, once the boundary canopy has dropped. A second clear in late spring is worth it where a property sits directly under the tree line. Out towards Wylde Green station, with less overhead, one clear a year is genuinely enough.