Gutter Cleaning & Gutter Repairs In Spalding

Spalding 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 Spalding 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 Spalding town centre, Pinchbeck, Weston, Moulton and the rest of PE11 and PE12.

Two days before Christmas 2020, 52.8mm of rain fell on Spalding in a little under ten hours. A report to Lincolnshire County Council's Flood Scrutiny Committee called it an "unexpectedly severe surface water incident": Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue attended 70 incidents, and 40 of those involved water getting inside homes and businesses. On ground this flat, roof water has no slope to carry it away quickly, so a gutter that spills over in a storm simply dumps more water at the foot of the wall.

The town's older streets carry plenty of roof to look after. Spalding Civic Society notes that the conservation area, first designated in 1970, takes in the riverside either side of High Bridge, the medieval street pattern of the commercial centre, Church Street and Pinchbeck Road, with a wide range of Georgian and Victorian buildings and around 140 listed buildings in the town. The big houses south of High Bridge sit among riverside trees, and their gutters, valleys and hoppers fill with leaves and twigs every year.

Some Fen properties send roof water to a ditch or dyke rather than a drain. If you're adding an extension and want to discharge extra surface water into a watercourse, the Welland & Deepings Internal Drainage Board asks for an application for consent, and work within 9 metres of one of its watercourses needs separate permission. For an ordinary clean, we clear each run by hand, flush the outlets and can send before-and-after photos. Prices in Spalding start from £120 + VAT.