gutters

Hi In my back yard, the concrete is heavily cracked and it slopes towards the house - in particular it seems that around the drains etc there is enough damage to get thorugh to the void space & who knows where else - which I think is getting damp (need to confirm) Internally, I know there is...

I’m really struggling to understand our home’s gutters. We are end-of-terrace, with one downspout in the front. It’s the single pipe that goes into the grey bricks in front of the fence. I pulled it out yesterday and discovered that it just goes about 12 inches into sandy soil under the brick...

We have a 1950s semi detached house that was built originally with 1 downpipe at the front of the property (my side at the end) and 1 downpipe at the back of the property (in the middle, my side), the front drains into the main sewer, the back drains into my garden (no soak away just literally...

Hi All we just discovered that our shower and bathtub waste is going to a small pipe that does not appear to be connected to the main sewer... this was all discovered by chance as we recently moved into the property and I was working on the front garden, it looks like the previous owners have...

I have identified two patches of damp in my house that could be caused by water from the guttering getting into the walls - they are high up at the join between the wall and ceiling on outside walls that have guttering/drain pipes located exactly where I am seeing the damp patch. I also have a...

Hi all, I am in the process of replacing my gutters due to the rusting and leaking. My roof has exposed rafter tails and the corner tails have rotted due to the water damage from the leaking gutters. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can repair the rotted sections? I seen a few...

I currently having an issue with rats in my loft space. I believe they are coming though my soil pipe and climbing that until they are on the roof guttering. I can stop that partially by blocking the soil pipe with a rat stop product. However, I also have a downspout that goes from the roof into...

I have just bought a small shop and we have shared pedestrian access to the drive outside the property with an easement on the drainage, we have had plans passed to install a new shop front and cladd the exterior walls with a thin 10mil insulation polystyrene to get rid of any imperfections and...

Hi guys, I recently noticed that some of the gutters need to re-aligned, also pieces of wood comming down of them. I called a roofer to get a quotation , the guy told me its £2500 to replace soffit/fascia/guttering with new ones. (semi-detached/3bed house) He told me current are too old (UPVC...

I replaced my old cast iron guttering in February 2015 on my semi detached house. The guy next told me we had damaged his guttering while replacing ours, so I rang an independent builder to come up and give his opinion. He stated that the guys guttering was the original guttering from when the...