Gutter Cleaning & Clearance in Ottery St Mary

The Moore & Franks approach in Ottery St Mary

Ottery St Mary is a proper old market town set in the Otter valley, surrounded by farmland and big mature trees — which means more leaf, twig and seed dropping onto roofs than most coastal spots ever see. The cob-and-thatch and stone properties around the church, plus the newer estates on the edges, all suffer blocked gutters come autumn. With the river close and damp already in the ground, an overflowing downpipe against an old wall is real trouble. Moore & Franks vacuum every gutter clear from the ground, flush the pipes, and handle older buildings carefully. Devon family firm, 25 years, £5m public liability, no fuss.

The newer estates climbing toward West Hill and up Tip Hill are render-heavy modern builds — K-Rend and silicone on deep plastic guttering — and they streak black within a few years in this valley air. Roof runoff carries that growth into the runs, and a blocked downpipe then marks the whole gable. We clear each length from the ground, put the pipes through a flush, and keep the water off the render, which is far cheaper than the soft-wash a stained wall eventually needs.

Out along the lanes toward Cadhay, Tipton St John and Newton Poppleford the properties are more scattered — farmhouses, barn conversions and village cottages with big roof spans under heavy tree cover. The leaf load off those lanes fills gutters fast, and on the exposed ground up toward Aylesbeare wind-driven rain drives grime into the runs. We reach the lot from ground level with the vacuum poles, whatever the roof span, and bag every bit rather than leaving it in the yard.

Sitting on the valley floor, Ottery holds mist over the meadows well into the morning, so gutters and downpipes stay damp and slow to dry once they block. Clearing them before the autumn leaf really comes down keeps water moving through the winter. We flush every pipe as part of the job and flag any bracket that has worked loose. A good number of local owners have us back yearly so it is handled ahead of the wet, not after.

Our Ottery St Mary customers are typically within 20 minutes of our Exeter base. We cover the wider EX11, EX10, EX5 postcode area and the surrounding villages (St Mary's Church and the Tumbling Weir, The Square and Silver Street, Cadhay Manor, West Hill, Tipton St John, Newton Poppleford).