Gutter Cleaning & Gutter Repairs In Melton Mowbray

Melton Mowbray 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 Melton Mowbray 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 Melton town centre, Thorpe Arnold, Asfordby, Asfordby Hill and the rest of LE13 and LE14.

Melton Borough Council's conservation area appraisal covers 27.67 hectares, designated in January 1975 and extended in October 1986 to take in Sherrard Street and Egerton Park. It counts 97 listed buildings. Most of the town centre is Georgian or early Victorian, two or three storeys high, in red brick under Welsh slate or rosemary clay tiles. A few roofs are rarer, such as the Swithland slate on the former Three Tuns in King Street.

The same appraisal lists uPVC rainwater goods among the things that harm the area's character, so traditional gutters are worth looking after rather than replacing. Buildings stand in continuous frontages on narrow plots, so water spilling from one gutter soon reaches the wall next door. On tall, narrow-fronted town houses, a blocked hopper can go unnoticed until water stains the brickwork below. The council is now consulting on a refreshed appraisal for the town centre, a useful reminder that changes to historic frontages are watched closely.

Leaf fall here comes from the parkland. The appraisal describes a wealth of mature trees in the Play Close, Town Park and Egerton Park, an avenue along the line of the old Melton to Oakham canal, and more trees on St Mary's Way and in the churchyard. Properties around those green spaces fill their gutters fastest. We clear and flush each run, with before-and-after photos on request, starting from £120 + VAT in Melton.