Gutter Repair & Drain Clearing in Dawlish

The Moore & Franks approach in Dawlish

Right on the exposed south Devon coast, Dawlish guttering works harder than most. Salt spray off the beach and the Warren rusts brackets and seams, and the tightly-packed Regency and Victorian terraces around The Strand and Brunswick Place share downpipes that overflow the moment a joint fails. Up on Barton Hill and around Holcombe the steep wooded slopes drop leaves straight into the gutters, blocking gullies through the wet winters. We reseal leaking joints, refit dropped runs and hoppers, swap out corroded downpipe sections, and rod the drains clear so the rainwater stops running down the walls. Local, fully insured to £5m, well used to coastal conditions — and a free quote before any work.

Salt does not fix a gutter once and leave it alone — on the exposed frontages here it keeps working at the metal, so a bracket that was refitted a few years back rusts again at the fixing. We fit corrosion-resistant fixings and coated or stainless brackets where the old ones have wasted away, not just a like-for-like part that will fail the same way. The aim on a Dawlish seafront property is a repair that actually lasts against the weather, not a quick reseal that lets go by the next winter.

A lot of Dawlish property is holiday accommodation — the terraces and flats near the beach and the Warren that take guests through the season. Owners tend to want the gutters sorted quietly out of season, before the overflow starts staining the render guests actually see. We are happy to work to that timing, quoting for absent owners and agents, resealing the joints and replacing tired downpipe sections while the place is empty.

Behind the town, on the wooded lanes towards Cockwood and the steep ground above, the gully drains take a heavy leaf load and choke from the bottom up. A gutter can be perfectly sound and still overflow because the drain beneath it is solid. We put the rods down the gullies, refit the shoes, and flush each run so the water drops away underground instead of sheeting down the wall through the wet winter.

Our Dawlish customers are typically within 25 minutes of our Exeter base. We cover the wider EX7 postcode area and the surrounding villages (Dawlish Warren, Dawlish Water (the Black Swans), Cockwood, Holcombe, Barton Hill, The Strand).