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Water cascading off the roof edge, a downpipe that burps at the joints, grass sprouting above the bedroom window? We dig out the worst blockages on Littleton houses and get rainwater heading back down the pipe.
Think of a routine clean as a service and this as the repair after a breakdown. The calls behind it are familiar: a run so thick with soil that a little lawn has grown along it, an outlet plugged with black slurry, a downpipe gargling halfway down the wall, or one corner that drapes a curtain of rain over the back door. Gutter clearing in Littleton is about smashing through that compacted mass, lifting it out and then proving that water can leave the roof properly.
Solid blockages laugh at suction on its own, so the first job is usually by hand. From a footed, secured ladder we break up the packed silt and tease out roots, and then the high-reach vacuum, good for up to 12 metres or about 40ft, collects the loosened material along every length. Downpipes get the same treatment in reverse: we start at the shoe and push our way up until the pipe runs clear. Mesh, brush and aluminium gutter guards are no obstacle either. Ours is a lift-out, clean-under, put-back approach, so the guards keep working once we have gone. Success is measured in one way only: the next cloudburst should end up in the drain, not on your brickwork.
A gutter in Littleton that overflows has usually been quietly filling for years rather than months. Fine grit washes off the roof tiles and settles first, then leaves and blossom land on top, and moss binds the layers together. Before long, seeds blown across the flat, open ground around the Queen Mary Reservoir find that damp strip and germinate. Small buddleia and sycamore saplings are a regular find on homes near Littleton Lane, sometimes with roots long enough to wrap the outlet.
Local building styles add their own quirks. Interwar and post-war semis frequently share one downpipe between two houses, which means a plug at a single outlet floods both halves of the pair. Bungalows have short, shallow gutters at hedge height that swallow trimmings and windblown leaves. A few older cottages close to St Mary Magdalene church have narrow outlets of a style that a handful of oak leaves can jam completely.
Heavy rain is what exposes it all. A choked gutter dumps its water over the front lip, soaking brick, window sills and the soil against the foundations, and on the low-lying gravel land beside the River Ash that water drains away slowly. Wherever you are in TW17, whether in the village itself or on the fringes of Charlton and Shepperton, we can dig out the blockage and restore the flow.
Bad blockages take a little more effort than an annual visit, and this is how we tackle them.
Photograph the gutter that spills, any staining below it and the downpipes. Better still, film it during a downpour so we can see exactly where the water escapes.
From a secured ladder we break up packed outlets, pull out rooted plants and dig into thick silt. Gutter guards, if fitted, come out first and are set aside safely.
Our pole vacuum lifts the loosened muck along every run. Downpipes are then worked clear from the shoe upwards until there is nothing left to stop the water.
We fill a section of gutter to confirm it empties into the outlet, replace any guards, sweep around the house and send you a summary.
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You rarely need to climb up to know something is wrong. Here are the clues Littleton homeowners usually spot before they get in touch with us:
Clearing a blockage promptly is far less disruptive than dealing with damp walls, stained render or rotten fascia boards a year later.
A deeply blocked gutter takes more time than one that just needs emptying, so each job is priced individually. We take into account:
A picture or a quick clip filmed on your phone is usually enough for us to fix the price of your gutter clearing in Littleton before we arrive.
Standard cleans are upkeep for gutters that still function. Clearing is the remedy when the gutter has already stopped draining because of packed sludge, plants or a choked downpipe. It involves far more hand work at the outlets and repeated testing of each pipe until the water moves again.
That arrangement is common on Littleton’s older semis, and clearing the joint pipe normally cures the overflow on both sides. We only need safe access to it and to the gutters that feed it, so a quick word with your neighbour before we arrive helps the day go smoothly.
It may have. Roots can prise joints apart and the weight of wet soil can bow a gutter between brackets. After pulling the plant and clearing the run we look closely for leaks and dips, and small faults can often be fixed straight away with parts carried on the van.
They can. Guards keep out the bigger leaves, yet fine silt and seed husks slip underneath while a soggy mat forms on top. We take them out, empty the channel underneath, hose the guards down and slot them back, ready for the next leaf fall.
We clear the downpipe itself, working from the bottom up. If the gully still overflows with the pipe clear, the blockage lies in the buried drain, which a drainage engineer needs to deal with. We will explain what we found so they know where to start.
Yes. Sudden overflows after high winds and heavy rain make up a big share of our clearing work around Littleton and the reservoir villages. Message photos as soon as you spot the problem, and a price plus the first available slot will follow.
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Choked gutters turn up in every village around here, and the places listed below are all on our regular clearing routes.
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Film or photograph the gutter that keeps spilling, send it over, and expect a free fixed price back in most cases on the day you message.
