Guttering rectification... pricing?

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We have 3 gutters in our new place, front and rear roof, and front extension roof.

They ALL have a leak at the connector piece mid length.

The birds use the rear one for bathing, so thats obvs not running right.

The front roof to lower extension flows ontot he roof, then falls of the edge, as the lower gutter isnt long enough.

I really want to sort all the gutters out as its pissing me off when it rains. Which is happening a LOT of late.

Im being told its £600 plus vat to rectify by "tradesmen".....

Is this really the ballpark for this park ?

A: In no way am I doing it, cannot do heights work and not taking the risk
B: Ideas to help mitigate this cost ?

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Square Leg said:

Perhaps those ‘tradesmen’ put more of a price on the risk than you do?

Yes, I understand that, but the price didn’t seem right to me….

Have another guy here Saturday to quote as well…

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Aluminati said:

sgrimshaw said:

Get some more quotes ... sounds like they are extracting the urine.

Says someone who

A) Doesn’t know the spec of the gutter.

B) Doesn’t know the amount.

C) Doesn’t know the access requirements.

But hey, they’re’Taking the urine’ …..

Valid, but is this your field ?

If so, what to do you think ?

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bennno said:

Depends on what they are quoting for, remove and redid existing, all new guttering or just repairing a joint?

Purely repair, anyone thats want to replace wants to do soffits etc and I have no need for that as already PVC.

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bennno said:

Turn7 said:

Purely repair, anyone thats want to replace wants to do soffits etc and I have no need for that as already PVC.

How will repairing the joints resolve all the issues you described?

The joints are all leaking, this guy says the rear gutter is bowing and he could solve that......

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Douglas Quaid said:

You need 3 gutter unions which costs less than a tenner. But then you also need the existing guttering removing and the brackets moved up or down to fix the fall then the guttering clipping back in. One bloke could probably do it off a ladder in a day but it’s dirty and awkward work. Not tough on a bungalow but not nice the higher you go. If you don’t want to do it then pay the money.

Quite happy to pay a professional to do the job, buts as I have never had to have this done before, I was taken aback at the initial quote.

The guy that was suppposed to come yesterday blew out

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bennno said:

Turn7 said:

Quite happy to pay a professional to do the job, buts as I have never had to have this done before, I was taken aback at the initial quote.

The guy that was suppposed to come yesterday blew out

If you can hire an electric cherry picker then it might be quite straightforward, note that a lot of guttering looks a similar profile but you must get the exact same brand / profile to be fully watertight.

Though of that, but not sure I’d get ir down the side passage….

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Douglas Quaid said:

Turn7 said:

Douglas Quaid said:

You need 3 gutter unions which costs less than a tenner. But then you also need the existing guttering removing and the brackets moved up or down to fix the fall then the guttering clipping back in. One bloke could probably do it off a ladder in a day but it’s dirty and awkward work. Not tough on a bungalow but not nice the higher you go. If you don’t want to do it then pay the money.

Quite happy to pay a professional to do the job, buts as I have never had to have this done before, I was taken aback at the initial quote.

The guy that was suppposed to come yesterday blew out

My post came across a bit abrupt, I didn’t mean it to be that way. Just saying that it is technically pretty easy but you run a risk of falling off a ladder which is not nice which is why people want to charge hundreds. If it was fully scaffolded you could do the whole job in half an hour but that would cost a lot more.

Oh I absolutely agree....no offence taken btw

The thing is this job is the sort of job the "handyman" type guys promote themselves to do, but they often do as st a job as I would do.......

Finding a decent guy is tricky.