Gutter Cleaning & Clearance in Cullompton

The Moore & Franks approach in Cullompton

Cullompton sits in the Culm valley with the M5 running past, but it's farming country at heart — mature trees, hedgerows and open fields all around, dropping leaf and debris onto rooftops through autumn and winter. The town mixes its old wool-trade buildings and high-street frontages with sizeable modern estates, and every one of them sees gutters silt up with moss and washed-in grit. A blocked downpipe in a valley town means water sitting where it shouldn't. Moore & Franks vacuum the lot out from the ground, flush the pipes, and give you a straight account of anything that needs fixing. Family-run, 25 years, £5m insured.

The modern estates off Honiton Road and out toward Colebrook and Knightswood are render-heavy — K-Rend and silicone on deep plastic guttering — and they discolour within a few years of going up. Roof runoff drives that growth into the runs, and a blocked downpipe then streaks a pale gable badly. We clear the full length from the ground, flush the pipes, and hold the runoff clear of the render, which spares owners the far bigger job of soft-washing a stained elevation later.

In the historic core around Fore Street, St Andrew's and the Walronds the buildings are cob, lime render and old clay tile, much of it listed or in the conservation area. Harsh methods do real damage here, so we clear the gutters gently from ground level, drawing debris through the poles with nothing propped against fragile fabric. Overflowing runs are particularly bad on cob, which holds any damp, so keeping them empty and flushing the downpipes protects the older walls.

With farmland on every edge, Cullompton gutters cop pollen, dust and organic muck on top of the leaf washed down off the valley trees, so they clog faster than you might expect for an inland town. We bag the lot as we vacuum, check each downpipe is carrying, and flag anything that needs more than a clean. Plenty of owners here have us return yearly so the runs are cleared ahead of the wet Culm-valley winters rather than during them.

Our Cullompton customers are typically within 20 minutes of our Exeter base. We cover the wider EX15 postcode area and the surrounding villages (St Andrew's Church, Fore Street conservation area, The Walronds, Culm Valley, Knightswood estate, Colebrook).