Gutter Cleaning & Gutter Repairs In Dronfield

Dronfield has seen its share of heavy-rain flooding, and blocked gutters make downpours worse: water spills down walls, soaks the ground beside your foundations and backs up into gullies and soakaways. That's why we check the drain each downpipe discharges into, not just the gutter.

Most homes in Dronfield need a gutter clean once or twice a year — usually late autumn after the leaves fall, and again in spring. Properties near mature trees may need more. While we're there we can reseal joints, refit brackets and replace damaged sections, and we cover Dronfield, Dronfield Woodhouse, Coal Aston, Gosforth Valley and the rest of S18.

Dronfield is mostly a post-war town. Its population grew from about 6,500 in 1945 to 21,261 at the 2011 Census, so much of the housing in Dronfield, Dronfield Woodhouse and Coal Aston is post-war. On houses of that age, the gutters are often plastic, in runs held together with clipped joints and rubber seals. Those seals harden with age and start to drip, often long before the gutter itself looks worn.

The older cores are different. Dronfield has four conservation areas: Dronfield (designated 1971), Coal Aston (1983), Dronfield Woodhouse (1990) and Moss Valley (1990). Its oldest buildings use coal measures sandstone for the walls and stone slate or graduated slate for the roofs. Rough stone roofs hold moss well, and every heavy shower washes some of it into the gutter.

The town sits in the valley of the River Drone, with the Peak District only three miles to the west. We clean Dronfield gutters from £120 + VAT, clearing the moss and flushing the downpipes, and point out any joints that need resealing.