Repairing wooden guttering on Victorian terraced house

timefortea

Hi!

My wooden guttering is leaking down the front of my house (there's a drip coming through the guttering itself and a soffit looks like it might have rotted). I have a builder coming to give me a quote on Saturday (he was recommended by a family member), but can anyone give me a ballpark figure of what to expect?

I'm nervous as I bought the house six months ago and this is my first interaction with a builder or tradesperson of any kind. Lone young(ish) female and I'm completely out of my depth so I feel like an easy target.

I'm in Hull so would expect the work to be cheaper than other parts of the country.

Thanks for reading.

tacpot12

My experience is that there is little point trying to repair wooden guttering. My partner's house in South Yorkshire had them.

We replaced them with continuous aluminium gutters for about £900. The new gutters were supplied and fitted by a specialist guttering firm who also replaced the soffits. They firm was happy to work off ladders, so no scaffolding was needed.

The aluminium gutters have a much higher capacity than the wooden gutters and need no maintenance. Wooden gutters need painting every two years as a minimum, and perhaps more often as you are close to the coast.

timefortea

Thank you. I really want to keep the wooden guttering for now and the builder pointed out that the problem isn't my own guttering, it's a crack in next door's right where it meets mine. As the house next door is empty and in a bad state of repair he's going to patch it up for £70.