Gutter Repair & Drain Clearing in Tiverton

The Moore & Franks approach in Tiverton

Tiverton sits low where the Exe meets the Lowman, ringed by woodland, and that's what keeps its gutters working. The rendered Victorian terraces packed tight in Westexe and Elmore run aged cast-iron that splits at the joints and leaks down party walls, while the stone-and-cob farmhouses out toward Chettiscombe and Bolham collect leaf and grit in long runs that overflow once a joint goes. Mature trees along the Grand Western Canal and the Lowman fill downpipes every autumn, backing up the gullies. No sea salt this far inland, but plenty of shade, leaf-fall and slow-drying damp. We reseal and refit leaking joints, replace failed hoppers and downpipes, and clear the drains. Twenty-five years, fully insured, free quote.

Away from the coast, Tiverton's enemy is not salt but slow-drying damp, and in the gutters it shows up as moss. Under the heavy shade off the surrounding woodland and the Knightshayes side, the runs grow a carpet of moss and silt that holds water against the joints and weighs the brackets down until they drop. Clearing it is only half the fix — once the run is empty we reseal the joints the moss kept wet and re-fix the brackets it pulled loose, so the gutter sheds properly instead of sagging under next season's growth.

Up on the higher ground at Blundell's Heights and the newer estates the guttering is modern uPVC, and the faults are the ordinary ones — hardened seals, slipped brackets and the odd cracked hopper. These runs catch more wind than the sheltered town centre but still sit under enough tree cover to collect leaf. We renew the seals, re-clip the brackets to restore the fall, and swap the failed sections, matching the profile so the repair blends in.

Down in Westexe and the tightly packed terraces the trouble runs below ground as often as above it. The gully drains silt up with leaf and grit off the canal-side trees, and a run that seals fine still floods when the shared downpipe and gully back up from below. We rod the gullies clear, flush each run to be sure, and on the party-wall terraces we check the shared outlet is not just passing the overflow next door.

Our Tiverton customers are typically within 25 minutes of our Exeter base. We cover the wider EX16 postcode area and the surrounding villages (Tiverton town centre & Westexe, Grand Western Canal, Blundell's School, Bolham & Knightshayes, Chettiscombe, Elmore).