Domestic Concrete Guttering

The concrete gutters on your property although very durable and strong will definitely after a period of time allow rainwater to seep into the structure of your brickwork. Do not wait for this to happen!
Often you will not notice the leak until a significant amount of rainwater has penetrated into your external walls. This causes staining and damage on the outside brickwork and often defaces the decoration on your inside walls.
Numerous home owners ave spent many fruitless hours trying DIY methods or have employed a local tradesman to attempt to stop the leak. The unsuccessful attempts to stop the gutters leaking have varied, some builders have tried lead, mastic, aqua seal. bitumen, aluminium foil, plastic liners, roof felt, fibreglass and one client even tried to cement plastic gutter inside the concrete gutter. Due to the expansion and contraction of these methods are always temporary.
The only permanent solution to the problem is to install a continuous impervious to the entire length of the gutter of your property. The lining is made of coated aluminium which is machine formed to the to the shape of your gutter.The first row of roof tiles must be removed and new felt installed wherever practical to the lower line to prevent rainwater getting behind the new lining. On a semi-detached property the lining can be sealed to the gutter at the boundary line of your property. this is the method the local councils use on their own houses and is the only permanent solution to the problem.

Finlock concrete gutters although very durable and strong will definitely after a period of time allow water to seep into the structure of your brickwork. Do not wait for this to happen!

When these houses were built they had metal windows and window frames which helped hold the guttering in place but most of these have been replaced with UPVC windows leading to them sagging above the windows this is where we find they leak most often.

With concrete gutters often you will not notice the leak until a significant amount of rainwater has penetrated into the external walls. This causes staining and damage on the outside brickwork and often defaces the decoration on the inside walls.

This picture show a existing soil pipe pertruding through the bottom of the concrete guttering, this 4" pipe blocks most of the guttering and restricts the flow of water, when we install a concrete gutter lining we remove this pipe to below the gutter and fill the hole left with concrete then we can line the gutter with no obstructions.

We have all our own aluminium boss scaffolding and all of our installers are trained and certificated in how to use them. They are also working at height and ladder association trained and certificated.

The unsuccessful attempts to stop the concrete gutters leaking have varied, some home owners have tried lead, mastic, aqua seal, Bitumen, aluminium foil,plastic liners, roof felt, fibre glass and cementing plastic guttering inside the concrete gutter. Due to the different expansion and contraction of the different materials used and the difficulties in sealing them to the concrete these measures are always temporary. We remove all existing linings with electric chisels down to the concrete.

We have a seamless aluminium guttering machine so we can run out a continuous length of guttering the whole length of your house without creases or bends that may fatigue the metal.

Dane and Glenn running out a length of seamless aluminium gutter lining to be fitted to two semi detached houses in Brentwood Essex in 2005. We can do four or more houses in a row without the need for a joint.

This is what a aluminium gutter lining looks like once fitted to the inside of a concrete gutter. We replace the felt and batten at the eves level and secure the liner in position with stainless steel screws and waterproof washers.

Once the liner has been installed the tiles are put back with any broken ones replaced. The only thing you can see of the installation is a 15mm aluminium lip on the front of the gutter.

This is a Finlock concrete gutter lining on a co-op store in Hutton Brentwood Essex in 2015

We can clad the square profile concrete guttering with upvc fascia and sofit board alternatively we can give them a fresh coat of paint.

There are various profiles of concrete guttering the OG shaped finlock concrete guttering pictured in photos one and two, the square profile concrete guttering pictured in this photo and there is another square profile concrete gutter which has separate concrete fascia pieces to the front all of which we can fit a continuous aluminium liner to.

We can clad the square profile concrete guttering with upvc fascia and sofit board alternatively we can give them a fresh coat of paint.