Installing Guttering

A few weeks ago I fitted some white plastic guttering to a large set of out buildings we'd been working on. I was a little dubious as we'd normally fit black guttering to something like this but I think it really looks good and matches in with the house.

The white gutter looks good against the cladding

The front of the building

It took just over a day to get it all up. I tend to fit guttering level as it looks a lot better than having a heavy fall and so long as it's done right then it will run from the outlets as soon as the rain starts.

Making Box gutters

This week I had to make up two sections of large box gutters to waterproof an area of a barn we're converting.

The roof used to run down into a wall with vertical cladding that had normal guttering at the bottom. This was fine when it was just a barn as the water could run down onto the floor and not cause any problems.
As we're now doing them up it need to be water proof. We stripped off the cladding and the first four or five runs of slates so we could see what we were working with.
I then started at the lowest point and made the first step. A 1.4m run of ply that had a good fall on it. I then worked my way back to the other end of the roof creating each 1.4m run of gutter with a 50mm step between each level Each bit has to be fully supported and built in such a way to take the lead.


Working on the roof

 Bert the plumber then leaded these for me and we set about lapping the felt back over it to make it waterproof before we put the slates back on.

One stretch of leaded gutter

I've now got to reinstall the cladding and repair a section of oak frame that I exposed due to a high level of rot/woodworm on one joint.