Poor Maintenance and Gutter Problems , No. 1 cause of Damp Nottingham .: Most Vital , Gutters & Drains , they will look af...

Poor Maintenance and Gutter Problems , No. 1 cause of Damp Nottingham .: Most Vital , Gutters & Drains , they will look af...: Looking After the basics . Having properly functioning gutters and drains will save you bundles of money in the long run ,they are your ma...

Damp Problems the Potential Cost of Ignoring your Gutter Maintenance .

Gutters are your Homes most Critical and Vital Defence against Water .

Discovering Damp when Selling your Home could cost many Thousand.

 Gutter cleaning Nottingham is one of those maintenance routines your home or business can not do without , and I'll tell you why .
 I've worked in the building trade for too many years now from new build homes on an Industrial scale to domestic property maintenance in Nottingham and then there's the fast pace Multi Billion Pound Food Industry , this business has no respect for anyone , know matter how long in the business or how far you bend over for their benefit on Christmas Eve or even New Years Day , You idiots know who you are , and the very best to you all .

Getting back to the point , neglect your gutter maintenance in Nottingham entirely at your own sometimes very expensive cost , Damp Industry is where the very expensive cost comes in , ask anyone who may be a little short of money and is trying to sell their home , they may or may not realise their home has a damp problem , that is until the potential buyers surveyor comes to your home with his briefcase and fancy damp or moisture detector ,  http://www.nice-n-white.co.uk/damp/damp solutions Nottingham need not be expensive.

Apart from my Nottingham based customers , I also work for a very large by to rent property owner from Huddersfield who recently due to Yorkshire Bank no longer providing mortgages moved to a new mortgage provider and due to his no longer property manager totally neglecting maintenance requirements had many potential RISING DAMP issues on a few of his homes all down to poor gutter maintenance and general neglect , had I not been there to meet the surveyors I have not a single shred of doubt he would have had to pay many thousand of pounds to put a non existent problem to bed , http://www.nice-n-white.co.uk/damp/  

The Home that Spent Thousands to cure DAMP ,and n
Never fixed the cause .

Very recently acquired  new customer who was extremely worried about their new home on The Wells Road , Nottingham , this house had obviously had been plagued with damp for most of its life and this was entirely down to the massive trees on the hillside above this house , from new without maintenance , gutter cleaning it's gutters would have been blocked within years of building .
On an external inspection the house had already had 2 brick injected damp courses , each with a 20 year warranty , if you don't know water travels up through the cement not the bricks once damaged they will absorb water .
Along with this they had 3 or 4 extra air vents fitted into the brickwork , Aco drain installed by the front door , new storm water drain at the bottom of the gutters downpipe and the best of all new fascia and soffit boards , these only rot away when you do not clear out your gutters or you have leaking gutter joints onto the boards causing them to rot away over time , unfortunately these fascia fitters where lazy and run the gutters on both sides of the house through the top of the downpipe only drilling 3 small holes for the water to drain  ,one leaf and its game over overflowing gutters again almost instantly .
The obvious damage was 3 courses of bricks from the ground faceless , (broken) , and all around the downpipe and what used to be a window much the same .

Unfortunately due to lack of funds available by the customer , huge money was not necessary due to the simplicity of the problem  ,make roof watertight by replacing broken slates ,  gutter cleaning Nottingham  , remove gutter and cut so downpipe not covered the cause of all this homes problems , repair leaking joints and paint damaged bricks with a waterproof bituminous paint to prevent any more water penetration , most DAMP plagued homes have similar causes and it is NOT Rising Damp.
Most peoples damp is caused by lack of maintenance , your home never began with rising damp when first built so unless built on a bog and your membranes rotted away it's your lack of maintenance .
By Craig Slight
http://www.nice-n-white.co.uk

Gutter Cleaning Nottingham ,Derby , Mansfield and Hucknall the Importance of .

Gutter Cleaning , Clearing and Testing is Vital for your Nottinghamshire ,Derbyshire home .

These days there is a lot of properties in the country and Nottingham shire that are coming of a certain age where if the home-owner has never had them cleared out and tested will not be working effectively or in some cases at all .
This means every time we have a few hours of rain ,(often) the water has nowhere to go so it'll cascade over the top and run down your walls damaging your pointing and render ,over time even made easier with cracks and damaged brickwork due to water ,causing damp inside your home.

  Damp Caused by Blocked and Overflowing Gutters,Nottingham

 
Two jobs I've done this week on Sunday and Monday ,one in Mansfield ans the other in Carlton had serious damp issues cause by and only poor gutter maintenance ,£70 a year or even if times are really hard every two years could have avoided this ,if you have lots of big trees around you gutter clearing once or twice a year is definitely recommended .
Usually it is relatively easy to see from the ground exactly what area the water is coming over the side and it almost never fails , look up at your gutters and if there is parts that are black in some cases a whole side of the house ,now this is more often the case with houses detached or semi with gutters on 3 or 4 sides and maybe only one down pipe for the whole house or two on a large detached .
Blocked and overflowing gutters damage your bricks allow water to penetrate the mortar and in a little time cause damp , annual gutter cleaning for your Nottingham home will save thousands in the long run , unfortunately for most gutter are way up at the roof line   http://www.nice-n-white.co.uk

Water will Damage your House and Cost a lot more than a Gutter Clean.

If you have very little spare money for maintenance to your home clear and test all your drains yourself with a hose and rubbish bins of water to make sure and build up will be washed away , clear out first by hand ,and your gutter pay a professional to clear ,clean and test ,best money you will ever spend , try selling a house with a damp problem , potentially cost you thousands for a worthless piece of paper .

Black gutters usually mean they may be blocked .

Gutter cleaning Nottingham ,Damp Solutions Nottingham

Conservatory cleaning ,gutter cleaning in Nottingham.

Why routine gutter +conservatory maintenance is so important.
Gutters:The state of the inside of your gutters depends on quite a few different factors:
1)Trees and Mosses
2)Type of roof tiles
3)Condition of pointing in gulley's and ridges
4)Poorly fitted guttering,(extremely common)

1)Trees and Mosses: If your homes in a forest or surrounded by many large trees the likelihood of needing to have your gutters cleared out regularly is pretty certain,over time your gutters will get clogged up and eventually blocked.This will cause them to overflow during continual or heavy downpours,this can cause damp and mould to grow inside the house.

2)Type of Roof tiles: Older concrete type roof tiles will over time shed a lot of sand,which in 10 to 15 years of build up can amount to a good few buckets of sand and mosses being removed from your gutters,this will amount to quite some considerable weight,then add some frozen water to it in winter and poorly fitted gutters can just fall off the side of your house,(not very common though,but not unheard of). Clay tiles don't shed sand,but do sometimes start to break down and newer concrete tiles shed very little sand.

3)Pointing condition in gulley's and Ridge tiles: Generally a roofs weak spot is its pointing and broken tiles or slates,this is how the water starts to get in and this is when the damage starts.As far as your gutters go though ,small bits of pointing and broken roof tile will cause like a damming effect and cause leaves moss and sand to back up behind them,and on very long runs of guttering can cause them to overflow.Overflowing gutters will cause damp inside the rooms adjacent to the overflowing gutter.

4)Poorly fitted guttering: Now recently I have been doing a lot of gutter maintenance and re aligning work in an area called Harlow wood near Mansfield in Nottinghamshire,I will not mention the name of the house builder,but all you need to do is have a drive about after a few days of rain and examine the walls on the houses for wet patches nearly one on every street ,these gutters are fitted on adjustable gutter brackets so its easy to fix and I've done a few in that area,poorly fitted gutters can really ruin your life.
the cleanest gutters I've seen that haven't ever been cleared out had perfect pointing and had a perfectly straight fall with no dips,broken tiles pieces, or crumbling pointing in them,the worst were full of sand, moss and were up and down all over the place ,like I won't say what.I do have many images of what I'm talking about,but not sure how to get them from my phone to the right place on my lap top where I can use them,Yet.


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Most Vital , Gutters & Drains , they will look after you .

Looking After the basics .


Having properly functioning gutters and drains will save you bundles of money in the long run ,they are your main defences against the worst the British weather can throw at us , these two aspects channel the water away from your house .
All you need to do is stay on top of the basics ,keep your gutters and downpipes clean and free running , now you need to make sure the pipe running down the side of your house into a 4" underground drain is not blocked at ground level.
Blocked drains on older houses is extremely common ,this is mainly due to moss and sand from pointing etc over many years soon builds up ,this can even in real cold winters cause older clay drains to crack and break which often goes unnoticed causing potentially big problems.
Obviously your roof needs to be watertight and if you have wooden windows keep them treated or painted .

This will save you money .