Guttering and Soffits

When it comes to your home improvements, guttering isn’t always the most exciting of subjects. It often gets forgotten about until it become blocked.

Your guttering has an important job to do when protecting your home. Diverting water away from your home and reducing the risk of expensive water damage as the water seeps into the plaster and brickwork.

The types of guttering to choose from

Guttering comes in a variety of different forms, the most common is PVC. However, you can also choose aluminium and stainless steel gutters too.

PVC is the most common because not only is it hard wearing and durable. But it is also easy to replace, and affordable too.

When choosing guttering for your home you will need to consider the size and make sure that the guttering is going to be up to the job.

How to maintain your guttering

Depending on the amount of trees and litter in your area during the autumn and winter months some properties may find once a week an inspection and clearout is needed, whilst others could get by with once a month. The important thing is that you take a look at your guttering and to see how blocked it is.