Hi,
A bit of a broad question, but I wondered if anyone knew a rough price guide for the below:
1975 2 bedroom house, replace existing gutters, one downpipe, fascia and sofit boards - about 5m front and 5m back.Also any of reputable firms or specifications I should be asking for ect..
Many thanks
Jim
Forgot to say with UPVC
Thanks
What sort of guttering (i.e. uPVC, cast Ali etc) Where in the country? DIY or have done?
UPVC , Worcestershire, have done by somebody else - dont like heights!
Close to Worcester ?. I am in Worcester and recently had my semi done. Total cost came to around £800 in upvc.
DAve
I suppose it depends on where you live and the style and size of your house. Two years ago we had our 3 bed semi in Leeds, with separate porch and gutters on three sides, in continuous aluminium done for £200.
It's a superb job, done in a few hours, coloured black so not noticeable, no creaking from expansion and contraction and a guarantee. Ladders can be put against it, it has a deep profile ... what more can you want? We're pretty fussy but we're also happy. There's no dripping, it copes with the heaviest downpour.
We wanted to do it ourselves but the company doesn'tallow that, although we did take down the existing wooden guttering and prepared the fittings.
The existing down pipes are cast iron and didn't need replacing.
Mary
Hello Mary
£200 for aluminium? 3 bed detached. No difficult access.Black UPVC facias and soffits to front. Gutters and two downpipes to front. Gutters and one downpipe to rear.
That'll be 1500 of your English pounds if you live in Sevenoaks. 4 years ago the same firm quoted £3000!!!!!
BTW Mary, my grandparents lived in Shipley and my uncle lives in Morley. Will that have any effect on what is put on my postal voting paper?
Richard ;-)
Blech!
Serves you right for living in Kent. We prefer to use our disposable income in other ways. >
My maternal great grandmother lived in Saltaire and worked in the mill. We buy brass rod and tube from Morley. I have a friend in Five Oak Green.
My crystal ball is in a safe place and therefore not to hand.
Mary
This will give you an idea. It is very cheap.
My neighbour had his gutters, replaced, and fascias and soffits clad in upvc, cost £1200, location Devon. The people who did it were sh*te though, they actually put the wrong slope ( I think they wanted to put *no* slope on at all but couldn't even do that right ) on the guttering so practically all the water from my neighbour's gutters came down my downpipes ( semi detached ). I put gutter dividers in at the junction of his and my guttering so now his gutters are a swimming pool and mine ( with a decent slope on them ) are dry.
Also, they had to handle a height difference in fascias because my fascias are the original wooden ones whereas they clad over his wooden fascias with new upvc, and instead of asking me if they could ease my gutters into alignment they just bust off a gutter clip at the front and back of my property and strained the gutters into alignment. They didn't even use the correct joining pieces or the gutters where his met mine, just laid one gtter overlapping another and quirted with silicone.
The motto is, make sure these people know that you expect the items I have mentioned to be done properly, and watch them, and get them to do a final commissioning test with water ( better still, get up the laddder and do it yourself before you pay them!
Andy.
Possibly true but not entirely out of character with the rest of the house.
But we can't all live in God's own county, unfortunately.
Ever travel on the 'toast rack' railway at Shipley Glen or visit the funfair?
Happy days long past.
Small world!
Richard :-)
You'll always have a welcome here if you come to visit.
Oh sixty years ago I loved that funfair, the rickety wooden thingy which always looked as though it was falling down. And the swing boats which always made me sickbut I insisted on going on them. The tramway was and still is a favourite. It was saved from destruction fairly recently by volunteers.
Indeed ...
Welcome to mine :-)
Mary
Thank you kindly
IIRC a trip on the suspended seats down the frightening aerial trackway cost a threppuny bit.
My grandparents actually lived in Baildon (sp?) Green - not that far from Shipley Glen. It was our treat to visit the funfair every time we were staying with the grandparents.
Ta much
Richard :-)
andrewpreece wrote: ( I think they wanted to put *no* slope on at
AIUI a slope is not mandatory. My gutters are perfectly level and drain very quickly.
Richard
Not mandatory no, but a good idea. Also, mine DO slope ( slightly ), so I would get the bulk of next doors' water. Another problem with having no slope is that it is easy to get a variation in guttering slope if the installer isn't diligent where he puts the clips: this has happened with my neighbours' gutters, and his gutters actually go uphill slightly at one clip location, when they should be going downhill ( or at least level ). Net result is a lake for the birdies to bathe in, and even more water coming my way. In fact I stopped getting any of his water by putting dividers in the guttering front and back, where mine met his: his gutters have about 3" of water in them front and back where they meet mine after a rain shower.
Think about paths and patios, they would drain eventually if there were no slope on them and they were dead flat, but in practice a 1:60 slope ( or thereabouts ), helps them drain efficiently and avoid little pools of water where the paving has irregularities in it. The slope on my gutters is less than that, maybe 1:200ish.
If I had a detached house and deep ogee gutters I wouldn't be too concerned if they were dead level , if done accurately, but that isn't my situation.
Andy.
I never paid for it, my parents did but if I knew it was of no lasting interest to me. It was part of the overall treat of going to Saltaire. I felt proprietorial about it, what with the family link and then Robert's Park - my brother ws Robert.Not the same one but in those innocent days a small child didn't understand that ... there was/is even a Mary Street.
We had very few treats in those days. My other favourite trip was to the cemetary where mymother's mother was buried. All I remember about it was playing in the enormous concrete tunnels which were, apparently, yet to be used drains but if asked where to go today I'd say the cemetary.
Spouse used to fly his planes on Baildon Moor ... it was always cold and windy, not suitable for a little woman :-)
Mary
Perfectly level gutters, as with perfectly level roofs, will drain. The problem arises when thery slope ever so slightly in the wrong direction or, with roofs, when they develop bumps and hollows. That's when there are potential nightmares.
Mary
Mary Fisher wrote: n.
I remember trying to fly there: unzipped anorak, hands in pockets holding it open like a V bomber, run down the hill into the wind and /almost/ become airborne.
Richard :-)
LOL!
We watched someone with a hang glider thingy take off from there. Daft I call it, a few seconds, minutes if you're lucky, flight and then the slog back to the top of the slope. Carrying the thingy.
Mary
I did my 1974 bungalow 7 metres by 7 metres in UVPVC from facia.com. Replaced all soffits- replaced horizontal facias-clad the front and back sloped facias-replaced crap cheapo nasty plastic gutters with very smart ogee-£100 including downpipes.Total cost £800 the lot including plastic edge protection-a must have item. Renewed the last metre of the horizontal roof deck in ply and covered with dpc-belt and braces total cost £200. Quotes varied all over the place all were incomplete especially not quoting for the pain in the ass soffits. I bought £300 of scaffold which has come in very handy--for all and sundry--since. I would say plastic replacement is well within your average d-i-yer-I am a fat unfit disabled 59 year old and the quality of finish I achieved is way above your travelling mans level-not biased of course.
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