Blocked gutters and downpipes cleared across Tunbridge Wells, Southborough and the surrounding villages. Tall properties reached from the ground.
On a large villa in the Pantiles, off Mount Ephraim or around Calverley Park, the guttering can sit thirty feet up. Traditionally that meant either a very long ladder or a scaffold tower, both of which are slow, expensive and awkward on a sloping site.
We work entirely from the ground with a high reach vacuum system. No scaffold, no ladders against original stonework or decorative bargeboards, and no long access negotiation with your neighbours over where the tower goes.
Gutter Cleaning
Tunbridge Wells is one of the greenest towns in the South East, and every one of those trees drops something.
The mature limes, beeches and horse chestnuts around Calverley Park, Hungershall Park and out towards Rusthall fill a gutter faster than almost anywhere we work. On a heavily shaded property it isn’t unusual to find the run completely matted by the end of a single autumn.
Shade brings a second problem. Gutters that never see direct sun stay damp, and damp gutters grow moss in the run itself rather than just catching what falls in. That holds water against the joints and is what starts cast iron corroding.
Out at Southborough, Bidborough and Speldhurst the tree cover is heavier again. Those properties genuinely want doing twice a year.
On a Victorian villa, gutter overflow doesn't stay a cosmetic problem for long.
Solid brick and sandstone walls with no cavity have nothing to stop water getting through once they’re saturated. Overflow runs down the same stretch every time it rains, and on the local sandstone it shows as staining and eventually spalling.
There’s also the detailing to think about. A lot of the housing here has decorative bargeboards, finials and moulded fascias, and those are the first things to rot when a gutter has been overflowing behind them. Replacing a moulded bargeboard on a listed or conservation-area property is not a cheap job.
Once a year is the minimum here. Under heavy tree cover, twice.
A good deal of central Tunbridge Wells is either listed or inside a conservation area.
Because we work from the ground rather than putting ladders or scaffold against the building, there’s no contact with the fabric of the property at all. No pressure on original guttering, no weight on decorative detailing, and nothing propped against stonework.
Worth mentioning when you call if your property is listed, so we can talk through any access restrictions before we come out. The same applies if you’re in a flat or a converted villa where the guttering is shared, since it’s usually worth clearing the whole run rather than one section.
Where we cover
The Pantiles, Mount Ephraim, Calverley Park, Hungershall Park, Rusthall, St John’s, Sherwood, High Brooms and Southborough, plus Bidborough, Speldhurst, Langton Green, Pembury, Frant and Groombridge.
We also work right across the rest of Kent, including Tonbridge, Sevenoaks, Maidstone, Medway, Ashford, Canterbury, Dartford and Gravesend.
Not sure if we come out your way? Give us a call and we’ll tell you straight away.
We also cover Tonbridge, Dover, Deal and everywhere in between.
Gutter Cleaning
The things people ask most before booking.
Tell us what needs cleaning and we’ll come and look at it. No charge, no obligation, and a fixed price in writing before anything starts.
Yes. The high reach vacuum works from ground level and comfortably reaches three storeys, so there's no scaffold to hire and no ladders against the building.
It depends on the size of the property and how much guttering there is. The larger Victorian villas take longer than a standard semi, so we come out and quote first. There's no charge for that and no obligation.
Because we work from the ground rather than putting anything against the building, there's no contact with the fabric of the property. Do mention it when you call so we can talk through any access restrictions beforehand.
Once a year for most properties, but twice if you're under heavy tree cover. Around Calverley Park, Hungershall Park, Rusthall and out towards Southborough and Speldhurst, twice a year is usually more realistic.
Yes. We're regularly out at Southborough, Bidborough, Speldhurst, Langton Green, Pembury, Frant and Groombridge, along with the smaller villages in between.
