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Properly working gutters and downpipes are an important part of your property's weather proofing and drainage systems. Rainwater overflowing from blocked gutters or downpipes can cause serious damage to a building's structure and can also result in expensive repair bills. Gutters can be blocked by a variety of objects - including leaves, twigs, grass, earth, moss, stones, bird droppings and slipped tiles or slates. These objects end up in your gutters by way of wind, overhanging trees or nesting birds. To prevent or minimise damage to your property, your gutters should be cleaned as soon as possible after a blockage or overflow is noticed. Here are the reasons why regular gutter cleaning is essential...
Gutter cleaning could prevent water damage to your property's outside walls. Over time, your property's brickwork gradually becomes more and more porous and absorbs some of the rainwater rather than repel it. This needn't be a big problem if rainwater hits your house's brickwork directly as it falls from the sky - even after heavy rainfall the bricks would normally dry out before the rainwater penetrates to the house's inner walls - but a potentially serious problem could arise if rainwater cascades out of the gutters directly onto the building's walls. Quite simply, the brickwork cannot cope with such a high volume of water hitting it time and time again, and it absorbs more and more water over time. Gutter cleaning could prevent damage to internal plasterwork, wall decoration & furnishings. It's just a matter of time before the inside of your property starts to show the consequences of water-logged brickwork. Basically, when an external wall is absorbing water that water will eventually find its way through to the inner wall surface and will show up as unsightly damp patches. Harmful-to-health black mould will also start to appear on internal walls and within a short time the plasterwork will become 'blown' and will need to be replaced. And this often means replastering an entire wall at the very least. In the meantime the unpleasant smell of damp walls and furnishings could be very noticeable in your home. Regular gutter cleaning and gutter maintenance would prevent all these problems occuring in the first place. If regular gutter cleaning is not carried out, these additional problems could arise...
These are the very real and unpleasant possible consequences of overflowing gutters. And, of course, all this water-related damage is likely to land you with expensive repair bills. All this hassle could be avoided if your gutters and downpipes are cleaned at the first sight of a blockage or overflow - or in order to prevent a blockage in the first place, cleaned on a regular basis. We recommend that your property's gutters and downpipes are cleaned at least twice a year. |
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