Gutter Repair & Drain Clearing in Crediton

The Moore & Franks approach in Crediton

Down in the Creedy valley, Crediton's still, damp air keeps its guttering under pressure year-round. The red-sandstone cottages along the High Street and the older terraces off Bowden Hill and Park Road run aged cast-iron that leaks at the joints, while the post-war semis around Lords Meadow and the newer homes toward Forches Cross tend to drop at the bracket and overflow at the hopper. Heavy tree cover from the surrounding farmland packs downpipes with leaf fall, so gullies back up and water marks the walls. We reseal and refit leaking runs, replace failed hoppers and downpipe sections, and clear the drains so it all flows free again. Family-run, fully insured to £5m, clear pricing — free quote first.

Crediton's old cottages are built of the local soft red sandstone, and it does not cope well with a gutter that leaks onto it. Water tracking down from a split joint darkens and eventually pits the stone, so a failing gutter here is worth sorting before it starts marking the fabric. We match the cast-iron and heavier profiles these older properties carry rather than patching with plastic, reseal or replace the failed joint, and get the run shedding well clear of the wall below.

On the post-war and newer estates — around Pedlerspool and the roads climbing toward Forches Cross — the guttering is uPVC and the usual faults apply: seals that harden and weep, brackets that slip, hoppers cracked by a frozen downpipe. We renew the seals, re-fix the brackets to bring the fall back, and swap the failed sections to match. Straightforward runs, but the still valley damp works the joints harder here than on higher, breezier ground.

Out in the villages — Sandford, Newton St Cyres and Shobrooke — the tree cover is heavier still, and the gully drains under the downpipes clog with leaf mulch every autumn. A sound gutter overflows all the same when the drain below it is packed solid. We clear the gullies with the rods, reseat the downpipe shoes, and pour water through each run to check it gets away rather than backing up over the wall.

Our Crediton customers are typically within 20 minutes of our Exeter base. We cover the wider EX17 postcode area and the surrounding villages (Crediton Parish Church (Holy Cross), Lords Meadow Leisure Centre, Newcombes Meadow, Sandford, Newton St Cyres, Shobrooke).