Gutter Repair & Drain Clearing in Cullompton

The Moore & Franks approach in Cullompton

Cullompton's guttering splits the same way its housing does. The listed cob-and-render frontages around Fore Street and St Andrew's run older cast-iron that leaks at aged joints and needs a careful touch on protected fabric, while the modern estates at Knightswood and Colebrook tend to suffer dropped brackets and overflowing hoppers. Sitting low in the Culm valley, the town traps damp, and the trees along the River Culm pack downpipes with leaf fall that backs the gullies up every autumn. We reseal and refit leaking runs, replace failed hoppers and downpipe sections, and rod the drains clear so the water stops finding the wall. Family-run, twenty-five years, fully insured to £5m — free quote before we start.

Half the overflow calls in Cullompton turn out to be the drain, not the gutter. Under the downpipe the gully silts up with leaf mulch and grit washed off the surrounding farmland, and once it is solid the water backs up the pipe and over the gutter no matter how well the run is sealed. We rod and clear the gully drains, reset the downpipe shoe so it sits over the gully, and send water through the whole system to prove it is getting away underground.

Around The Walronds and the older Fore Street frontages the guttering is cast-iron on protected, historic buildings, and a heavy-handed repair does lasting harm. We match the existing cast or heavy profile so a mended section is not an obvious plastic patch, reseal the ageing joints, and treat the soft lime render below with respect — a leaking gutter left running will erode it. Careful, matched work is what these listed frontages actually need.

The modern estates off the Honiton Road and out towards Colebrook run uPVC that moves in the heat, so the joint seals harden and the brackets clip loose over a few summers. We renew the seals, re-fix the brackets to bring the fall back, and swap any downpipe gone brittle in the sun. Being low in the Culm valley, these runs also collect the valley damp and leaf, so we will flag how often they are worth checking once they are sorted.

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).