Gutter Cleaning & Gutter Repairs In Market Harborough

Market Harborough 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 Market Harborough 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 Market Harborough, Little Bowden, Great Bowden, Lubenham and the rest of LE16.

Market Harborough's conservation area covers a medieval market town. Harborough District Council notes that almost every building facing the upper High Street is listed, in a mix of timber framing, red brick and stone, and that many gained full-height stone bow windows in the later 19th century. Around the church of St Dionysius, infilling has left narrow streets and lanes, notably Church Street.

For gutters, that means old roofs with awkward details and tight access. Downpipes on listed frontages often sit close to stonework, so an overflowing gutter stains and soaks the masonry. Where a gutter or downpipe on a listed building needs replacing rather than cleaning, check with the council's conservation team before changing the style or material.

An extension to the conservation area runs from St Mary's Road down to the River Welland and takes in mid and late 19th-century houses. Carefully placed street trees also shed into nearby gutters in autumn. The county's flood risk assessment says town-centre flooding is reported fairly regularly, so clear gutters help. We quote from £120 + VAT for a clean.