Gutters, fascias &
soffits in Kent.
The cheapest damp fix on this website. An overflowing gutter soaks the same stretch of wall every time it rains, and it looks exactly like something far more expensive from inside.
One blocked gutter, one damp wall.
A roof collects an enormous volume of water and funnels all of it into a channel a few inches wide. When that channel blocks, splits at a joint, or falls the wrong way, the water goes over the edge and down the wall — in exactly the same place, every single time it rains.
Do that for a couple of winters and you have a permanently saturated stretch of masonry, and a damp patch inside that no amount of replastering will fix. We've surveyed plenty of houses where somebody was quoted for a damp course and the actual problem was a gutter joint.
Fascias and soffits matter too — once they rot, the gutter loses its fixing and the roof edge is exposed. It tends to happen quietly until something falls off.
Signs your guttering needs work
- Water pouring over the edge in heavy rain
- A vertical stain or green algae streak down the wall
- Plants growing out of the gutter
- Sagging sections, or gaps at the joints
- Paint peeling off fascias, or timber going soft
- Damp inside on the wall directly below a gutter run
Send us a photo taken during or just after heavy rain if you can — it makes the diagnosis obvious.
Guttering replaced, re-fallen or cleared
New guttering, downpipes, fascias and soffits, or clearing and re-falling existing runs where they're sound. If we're on the roof anyway it's usually a small addition to the job.
Cheap to fix, expensive to ignore.
This is the job we most often recommend before anything else, because sorting it sometimes removes the need for the expensive work entirely.
If a gutter is your whole problem, we'd rather tell you that than sell you a damp course.
- 01
Inspect the runs
Falls, joints, brackets, downpipes and hoppers, plus the fascia and soffit condition behind them.
- 02
Check the wall below
Meter readings inside where the staining is, to confirm the gutter is genuinely the source.
- 03
Clear or replace
Sometimes it's a clean and a re-fall. Sometimes the run has had its day and replacement is the honest answer.
- 04
Fascias and soffits
Rotten timber replaced and capped, so the new guttering has something solid to fix to.
- 05
Test with water
Run it through and watch where it goes, rather than assuming.
Water coming over the gutter?
Photograph it mid-downpour if you can. It's often the cheapest job we quote and it fixes a damp problem people have been living with for years.