07725 314415Gutter Repair & Drain Clearing in Ottery St Mary
Fix leaking joints, replace broken sections and unblock the drains and gullies underneath. We work all over Ottery St Mary and the surrounding Devon area — St Mary's Church and the Tumbling Weir, The Square and Silver Street, Cadhay Manor and the towns between.
The Moore & Franks approach in Ottery St Mary
Down on the River Otter floor, Ottery St Mary keeps its gutters busy. Mist lingers over the meadows below St Mary's Church well into the morning, and the mature trees lining the river and the lanes out to Cadhay drop leaf litter that blocks downpipes and backs up gullies fast. The older stone and cob homes around The Square and Silver Street run aged cast-iron that leaks at the joints, while the newer estates toward West Hill and Tip Hill tend to drop at the bracket and overflow at the hopper. We reseal and refit leaking runs, replace failed hoppers and downpipe sections, and clear the drains so the water moves again. Family-run, fully insured, free quote every time.
On the old cob and stone cottages around the town centre a leaking gutter is more than a nuisance — cob hates standing water, and a joint dripping onto an unprotected wall will soften and erode the render over a winter. That makes fixing the gutter properly a genuine bit of building care here, not just tidiness. We reseal or replace the failed joint quickly, match cast-iron and heavy profiles rather than patch with plastic, and get the water shedding well clear of walls that were never built to get wet.
The lanes out to Tipton St John and Newton Poppleford are heavily wooded, and the leaf fall off them is relentless from October on. It fills the downpipes and settles in the hoppers, and a run that seals perfectly well still overflows when the hopper below it is packed. We clear and refit the hoppers, swap any that have cracked, and re-fix the brackets on runs that have dropped under the weight of wet leaf sitting in them all winter.
Down near the Tumbling Weir and the meadows the ground stays wet, and the gully drains under the downpipes silt up fast with washed-down grit and leaf mulch. A sound gutter is only half the system — if the gully is blocked the water has nowhere to go and backs up over the top. We run the rods down the drains, reset the shoes to feed the gully cleanly, and flush the run through to make sure it all gets away.
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).
A clear, repeatable process.
No surprises, no upsells. The same method every job — that's how you get the same result every time.
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Find the fault
We check the full run in the wet if we can — leaks, sags, cracked sections and the gully below — so we fix the actual cause, not just the symptom.
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Repair the gutter
Joints re-sealed or replaced, brackets re-fixed for correct fall, broken sections and hoppers swapped to match the existing system.
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Clear the drain
The gully drain and gully under the downpipe cleared and rodded so the water runs away properly.
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Test & check
We flush the run through to confirm there are no remaining leaks and the drain takes the flow.
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers to the questions we get asked the most. If yours isn't here, drop us a line — we reply same day.
There is no set price — we quote each repair on what it needs. Careful matched work on a listed cob cottage near The Square costs more than reclipping a modern run up at West Hill, so we price on the building and the fault. The assessment and written quote are free.
The whole area — The Square and Silver Street in the town, out to Tipton St John, Newton Poppleford and West Hill, and the lanes towards Cadhay. It is about twenty minutes from our Topsham base, so Ottery and its surrounding villages are a comfortable run for us.
Yes — it is common on Ottery's cob cottages. Cob and lime-rendered walls will not tolerate rough handling or a mismatched plastic patch on a period frontage, so we match cast-iron and heavy profiles and keep everything sympathetic. Getting a leaking gutter fixed matters more on cob, because it erodes if it keeps getting wet.
Usually not long. We reply to every enquiry the same day, get out to assess it, and give you a free quote before any work is agreed. Our hours are weekdays, eight until five, and a leaking gutter is the sort of thing we try to look at promptly.
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