Gutter Cleaning in Shard End

Tree line, roof moss and a rendered wall below

An overflowing gutter on a rendered house is a worse problem than it is on brick. Water running down a rendered elevation keeps the surface permanently wet, and on a north-facing valley-side wall that never dries anyway it turns into a green stripe within a season and eventually works behind the finish. So the gutter above a rendered wall matters more here, because a clear run is what lets the wall dry between showers. Add the country park tree line and the shaded roof slopes shedding moss, and the rear run on a valley-side house is doing far more work than it was ever designed for.

• Rear gutters on the country park side taking leaf, seed and grit off the tree line for most of the year
• Moss washing down shaded rear roof slopes and settling as silt in the run beneath
• Overflow soaking rendered elevations, which is what turns a wall green and then keeps it that way
• Downpipes discharging to a gully at the back, which silt up about as often as the gutters do
• Identical roof heights across the estate, so a figure can be given before we see the property

Pole vacuum with a camera, so you see the run cleared

Everything comes out from ground level with a pole vacuum and a camera on the end of it, so we can show you the run before and after and you do not have to take our word for it from the pavement. Silt and moss come out too, not only leaves, since it is silt that keeps water standing in a shallow run. Every downpipe is then flushed through to the gully so we know the length drains. Where a length has split, sagged or come loose from the fascia we photograph it and put it in front of you, and since we do no repairs there is nothing to be gained by overstating it.

• Pole vacuum and camera worked from the ground, with no ladder loaded against a rendered wall
• Silt and moss removed alongside the leaf, since silt is the part that keeps water sitting
• Downpipes and rear gullies flushed and checked, never assumed to be clear
• Rear runs on valley-side houses treated as the main event and priced as such

More detail on the equipment and the order of work: the full gutter cleaning process.

Quoting each side of a B34 street on its own terms

We quote a house on the Cole Valley side of a street differently from one facing the other way, because they are not the same job and averaging them would mean one customer subsidising the other. The valley-side rear run typically holds more, needs the downpipe rodding more often, and comes back sooner. Working the estate is otherwise a pleasure: park on the drive or the verge, set up in minutes, then move to the next house on foot. That is exactly why booking alongside your neighbours is worth doing here.

A known height and run, and what pushes the figure up

A standard two-storey house on a standard run can usually be quoted over the phone, because the stock repeats and the height is known. It goes up where a rear run carries several years of packed silt instead of a single autumn of leaf, or where a downpipe needs rodding as well as flushing. Gutter dates in Shard End follow the scheduled B34 days, and we will offer you the nearest one.

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Yearly facing away from the valley, twice on the country park side

Once a year is right for a house facing away from the valley, best done in late autumn after the leaf fall has finished. On the country park side, twice a year is justified: a clear in November and a lighter one in late spring, because moss and seed keep arriving off the tree line outside the leaf season entirely. If a rendered wall below the gutter has just been cleaned, keeping that run clear is what decides how long the wall stays clean.