Gutter Cleaning in Bordesley Green

Slate grit, rubbish and nesting material in a B9 run

What fills gutters in Bordesley Green is mostly grit and moss shedding off ageing slate, wind-blown rubbish, pigeon nesting material and years of sediment that has packed-down into a bed holding standing water. None of it is visible from a pavement directly underneath, so the first anybody knows is water sheeting off the front edge in the first sustained rain of the winter, or a damp patch appearing on a bedroom wall. The blocks add long low runs above walkways, bin stores and entrance canopies that nobody looks at from one year to the next.

• Guttering running along a whole terrace, where each house’s length and downpipe still carries its own water
• Grit and moss coming off old slate roofs rather than the seasonal leaf fall that drives suburban gutter work
• Packed-down sediment forming a bed that holds standing water and cannot be seen from the ground
• Low communal runs over walkways, bin stores and entrance canopies on the post-war estates
• Vehicles parked tight under the frontage through the working day, which dictates when the job can be done at all

A carbon pole from the kerb, nothing dropped on the cars

Clearing is done from the ground with a vacuum head on a carbon pole, so nothing rests against a frontage that sits on the footway and nothing is dropped onto the cars underneath. A camera on the same pole shows you the inside of the run before we start and again when we finish, which is the only honest way to prove work on something nobody can see. We lift the packed sediment instead of skimming the loose debris off the top, then run water down each downpipe to confirm the whole length drains, including any discharging to a rear gully.

• Vacuum head on a carbon pole from ground level, with debris drawn into the machine rather than tipped over parked cars
• Pole camera footage of the run before and after, since you cannot inspect this from your own pavement
• The compacted bed taken out, not just the loose material sitting on top of it
• Water sent down every downpipe afterwards, and any cracked or dropped section photographed for you

More detail on the equipment and the order of work: gutter cleaning across Birmingham.

Timing a pole job around a full kerb

The household work sits on terraces threaded back from Bordesley Green Road and around the hospital, with block work on the post-war estates booked through freeholders and managing agents. Scheduling is the whole conversation. We ask which end of your street tends to free up and at what hour, and we take the slot that lets us stand the van somewhere sensible. Autumn is the natural season, though slate grit and moss arrive here regardless of the month. Booking ahead is the way to get the Bordesley Green date you want.

Compacted beds and shared runs in a Bordesley Green quote

One two-storey terrace booked by itself is a modest price. Two things change the number. A length carrying a compacted bed built up over many years takes considerably longer and the downpipe may need rodding as well as flushing, so the first visit costs more than every one after it. Neighbouring houses can be added to the same visit if they want it. Blocks are quoted as one job to the freeholder, covering the whole building including the low runs over the walkways.

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Once a year in late autumn on most B9 terraces

Once a year covers most terraces here, best booked in late autumn after the roof has shed what it is going to shed and before winter rain sets in properly. Where a run has never been touched, treat the first visit as the substantial one and the annual one afterwards as short. The blocks are better on twice a year, because the low runs above walkways and bin stores collect rubbish in every season.