Gutter Cleaning & Clearing that suits Looe

What we see on Looe properties

If the gutter cleaning & clearing at your Looe property has started looking tired, you're not alone. Houses overlooking the harbour cop salt, diesel and gull droppings in one continuous coat. Looe sits in Cornwall at PL13, close enough to liskeard that we regularly share visits.

Working harbour town facing the open Channel, which shapes how gutter cleaning & clearing on painted lime render and stone and Cornish slate actually plays out around PL13. Working out of PL13 we're rarely more than 19.4 miles from a Looe job.

Most enquiries we take are from owners who've been thinking about it for a while and finally caught the right week for the weather. Working-at-height planning is done before the visit, so the right access equipment arrives with the crew. The single biggest cause of re-growth is skipping the biocide dwell, and we don't skip it. Access photos help more than measurements when you're getting a first quote back from us. Boundary walls, garage doors and bin stores usually get added to bigger visits at cost, not full rates. Small jobs get done in the gap between larger jobs, which is why one-off cleans aren't more expensive here. We keep a small stock of common ridge and hip tiles so minor replacements don't hold a job up. Wall softwash finishes with a plinth rinse in every case, which is where the streaks would otherwise settle. Windows include the frames, the sills, the trickle vents and the cill drain holes, always. Two-storey work is the same price as single-storey where the pole reaches — height alone doesn't drive the cost. We priority-book care-home and rental customers because their timelines are usually tightest. We photograph at three points during a wall softwash — plinth, mid-elevation and eaves — for the record. Winter drive seals are cured under a tarp and a heater for the last two hours so overnight rain doesn't spoil the finish. Conservatory glass roofs get a two-pass rinse because the profile holds pooled water otherwise. The photo pack we send at completion doubles as a maintenance record for your property file.

Materials & methods we'd use here

Most Looe properties we treat have painted lime render and stone walls and a Cornish slate roof. That changes a few of the choices we'd make.

• Method

  40-ft carbon-fibre vacuum pole with HD camera - suits the gutter profile on fishermen's cottages and Victorian terraces - noted across Cornish slate - the difference between a two-year finish and a five-year one.

• Method

  Downpipe inlets cleared and water-tested - matters more on harbour town stock with hidden internal runs - noted on fishermen's cottages stock - the elevation that always dictates the price.

• Method

  Joints checked for daylight - any failures photographed for Looe customers - noted at very exposed exposure - the reason our reviews mention 'no surprises' more than anything.

• Method

  Annual reminder set if you're on a busy stretch of A387 - noted in the Cornwall Council patch - and it's exactly the sort of job the fleet was set up for.

Where it usually starts in Looe

• Overflowing front gutters on every heavy shower - typical of harbour town properties along A387 - in the Cornwall Council patch - a job we tend to batch with neighbouring runs.
• Damp patches behind gutter at the rear, almost always wet after a very-exposed week in Looe - 19.4 miles from PL3 - the reason we keep this round on a tight schedule.
• Saplings literally growing in front gutters of older fishermen's cottages and Victorian terraces - at roughly 50.353,-4.452 - the sort of thing owners notice from the road first.
• Hopper heads packed with leaves from mature trees across Looe - on painted lime render and stone - quoted from photos in most cases, no doorstep survey.
• Outlet boxes overflowing during Looe's heaviest very-exposed winter showers - across Cornish slate - the difference between a two-year finish and a five-year one.

Nearby areas we also cover

Things Looe customers ask us first