Gutter Clearing in Leatherhead

Gutter Clearing for homes and businesses in Leatherhead

Moss is more often the problem than leaves in the gutter clearing Leatherhead houses need. The town sits low beside the river where the ground holds damp and the shaded pitches dry slowly between showers, so moss establishes on the tiles and then washes down into the gutter in lumps every time it rains hard. Houses with no tree anywhere near them still fill up, because the material is coming off the roof itself rather than out of the sky.

Roof moss is heavier than anything a tree drops

A wet moss mat holds a lot of water and it lands in the trough in dense clumps rather than in light drifts. It packs tight against the outlet, it does not break down the way leaf litter does, and it turns the bottom of the gutter into something closer to soil than debris.

It also keeps coming. Leaf fall has a season and then it stops, whereas a mossy roof sheds through every wet spell of the year, which is why a gutter here can refill months after the trees have gone quiet.

Why gutter cleaning Leatherhead comes after the roof

If the tiles are due a moss clean, that wants doing before the gutters rather than after. Everything taken off a roof ends up in the trough, so clearing the gutters first means clearing them twice. Taking moss off tiles is roof cleaning, a separate job on a separate visit, and it is not something that happens off a gutter ladder in passing.

Downpipes take the worst of it. Moss fragments are bulky and they wedge at the outlet and the first bend, so water is run through the full length afterwards and watched at the bottom, not poured in at the top and assumed to arrive.

Damp walls, soft ground and the sensible month

The tell here is usually a dark vertical stripe on the wall under a joint or an outlet, and on a damp low-lying site that stripe stays wet far longer than it would on higher, drier ground. It is worth acting on early, because a wall that never dries out is a slower problem to reverse than a blocked gutter is to clear.

Ground near the Leatherhead valley floor is often soft in winter, so ladder footing gets levelled and checked properly rather than assumed. Autumn is the main booking. We do not replace fascia or soffit, so where a gutter has kept the timber behind it wet for years and it has gone soft, that is a job for a carpenter and it gets reported as one.

How we work

1. 1
   Free quote and a look at the run

   We check the height, the gutter type and whether there is safe ladder access all the way round. Conservatory roofs, extensions and tight side returns are the ones that decide how a gutter job gets done.

2. 2
   Clear the gutters out

   Leaves, moss washed down off the roof, grit off the tiles and the odd tennis ball. It comes out instead of getting flushed along to the next blockage.

3. 3
   Check the downpipes actually flow

   A clear gutter that drains into a blocked downpipe still overflows. We run water through and watch where it goes before calling it done.

4. 4
   Take the debris away and report back

   Cleared material should leave with the job rather than going into your borders. Anything spotted while up there, a split joint, a sagging bracket, a slipped tile, is worth reporting back to you.

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