Gutter Repair & Drain Clearing in Torquay

The Moore & Franks approach in Torquay

Torquay climbs in tiers above its harbour, and the gutters change as you go up. The grand Victorian and Edwardian villas around the Warberries, Lincombe and Wellswood run long, high cast-iron runs that sag and leak at the joints, often three storeys up, while the rendered semis of Chelston and Shiphay overflow at the hopper. Salt off Tor Bay corrodes the fixings, and the steep wooded hillsides drop leaves that block downpipes and overflow down walls all winter. We reseal and refit leaking joints, replace failed hoppers and downpipe sections, and clear silted gullies — properly equipped for the tall, awkward access these hillside homes demand. Twenty-five years across the bay, fully insured to £5m, free quote every time.

On Torquay's steep hillsides a house can sit a full storey lower at the back than the front, so a gutter that looks reachable from the road is actually hanging over a drop into the garden below. Getting to a leaking joint safely on the Babbacombe and Lincombe slopes is a real part of the job, and we come equipped for it rather than improvising. Once we are up there we reseal the joint, refit the dropped run or swap the corroded section, and leave the tricky access no worse than we found it.

Round St Marychurch the rendered semis catch the salt that drifts up off Babbacombe Bay, and it settles on the brackets and in the joints where it holds damp and speeds the corrosion. A galvanised bracket that would last decades inland wastes away here in a fraction of the time. We replace the corroded fixings with coated or stainless alternatives, renew the perished seals, and swap any hopper that has rusted through, so the repair actually stands up to the sea air.

The steep wooded combes above the town — the Cockington side especially — drop a heavy leaf load, and it ends up in the gully drains as much as the gutters. In the tightly terraced streets of Ellacombe and Upton the downpipes and gullies are often shared, so one blocked outlet floods two houses. We rod the gullies through, reseat the shoes, flush the runs, and on the shared systems make sure we are clearing the real blockage rather than nudging it next door.

Our Torquay customers are typically within 45 minutes of our Exeter base. We cover the wider TQ1, TQ2 postcode area and the surrounding villages (Babbacombe & Oddicombe Beach, Cockington Village, St Marychurch, Wellswood, Torre Abbey, Kents Cavern).