What is the name of the wooden wedge blocks that hold up guttering on older houses?

[mightyquinn]

Hi,

My house has wooden wedges rather than plastic brackets to hold up the guttering. Do you know what these wedges are called and where I can buy them?

 

[big-all]

Hi,

My house has wooden wedges rather than plastic brackets to hold up the guttering. Do you know what these wedges are called and where I can buy them?

no expert here
but wedges can only ever follow the cement lines between bricks and as guttering needs a fall so not following the brick course at all so a bodge
also guttering needs lateral support as well as vertical so again not good

 

[mightyquinn]

Here are photos of examples of what I'm referring to

 

[mightyquinn]

They look like carpented / wooden wedge-shaped blocks, but I don't know what they're called.

 

[big-all]

ahh ok not what i thought
extension off floor/roof timbers perhaps ??

 

[catlad]

Corbals

 

[catlad]

Type into google images you'll find plenty of sellers.

 

[big-all]

Corbals

funny enough without even thinking corbel came to mind then i though oo thats bricks but iff you think about it it just means stepped or under support

 

[Alastairreid]

A joiner can make them up for you or take one into a joiners workshop and ask them to make copies.

 

[mightyquinn]

I had two corbels fall off, but don't remember this happening. I believe the guttering was good when I first moved into our home. I need to get scaffolding up and get a bracket put up to hoist the guttering where it sags ever so slightly. A roofer added one bracket already, but couldn't get to the sag because of sloping ground. The guttering has a square (not round) profile when you look along its length. What sort of bracket would be best to use for this? Also, do corbels have a mechanism where they screw into the guttering as well as the wall/facias to stop the guttering from sliding away from the roof/wall?

 

[Alastairreid]

The gutters are screwd onto a facia board with coach bolts at the back of the gutter.