Wooden Gutters

[alan8376]

Can anyone tell me how these old Victorian Wooden Gutters were made?

My sister has a cottage in Yorkshire, where it appears the wooden gutters are rotted at the end blanking cap. The gutter length is fine, solid as a rock! Are this form of guttering actually secured to the building, or do they just sit on the posts ?

Fitting plastic or extruded aluminium is not preferred to correct the leak.

Can anyone advise what the normal practise is to overcome the problem? How were these wooden gutters originally capped at the time of manufacture?

Is there anyone out there who specialises in this type of work in the Brighouse/Huddersfield area?

Thanks Alan

 

[SASroofer]

Pictures may help mate, any way of lining the gutter in lead sheet?

 

[alan8376]

Sorry, no pictures possible as I am a few hundred miles away in Yorkshire!

When I went up the ladders a few months ago, it was the gutter end stop that was rotted. Unfortunately, the cottage is in a row of 4 , so I can't work on the end due to it butting up to the neighbours gutter.

Another problem is how the roof slats hang quite a distance over the gutter, thus making it even harder to investigate or enable a repair!

Thanks

 

[masona]

Don't know if this will help but they do gutter lining system for gutter problems.

http://www.slecladding.co.uk/gutlinefix.htm

 

[alan8376]

Thanks for the link. That gives me some ideas.

Thanks

 

[lorreal]

Typical choices include aluminum, steel and copper. Plastic is available, but often not a good choice due to shorter lifespan. Wood, once the staple of gutters, is now becoming popular again, as properly installed and maintained wooden gutters can last for decades, sometimes longer than their metal counterparts.
Thanks.

 

[lorreal]

Common choice of aluminum, steel and copper, are included. For decades to install correctly, and sometimes may last longer and maintain a wooden wood gutters, drains a share of the now popular again and their response than metal.

 

[lorreal]

Roofers and then the C-channel bar rubber trees, rotting slums recipe allow moisture to penetrate deep into the back of this part has failed due to collect.

 

[SASroofer]

What????

 

[ReggieStrant]

What????

lorreal claims to be from India, so maybe he just has a very poor grasp of english, but looking at the content, it reads more like a poorly edited wikipedia page than a conversation...

... which is tempting me to suggest "he" might actually be an "it".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatterbot

 

[SASroofer]

Thats what i thought. Look at all of his posts, its got spambot written all over it.

 

[Vegeta]

Fibre glass it .