Guttering & Fascias · Highworth · Swindon · Cotswolds
Replacement guttering, fascias and soffits fitted properly: right falls, sealed joints, boxed eaves that keep birds out and rain off the brickwork.
40 years' experience · Family-run · Free site visits · Fully insured
Overview
Guttering is the least glamorous part of a house and one of the most important. The whole point of a roof is to move water off the building; the whole point of guttering is to move it away. When either fails, everything downstream: brickwork, plaster, foundations: pays for it.
Full replacement guttering in uPVC and cast-iron-look profile. Downpipe replacement and re-routing. Fascia, soffit and bargeboard replacement. Roofline replacement where the timber underneath has rotted. Repairs to leaking joints and sagging runs. Gutter cleaning as part of a repair job.
Homeowners with sagging, leaking or overflowing gutters. Anyone whose fascia and soffit have gone soft, rotten or been pecked open by birds. Landlords tidying rental exteriors. Buyers with survey reports flagging roofline replacement.
Gutters overflowing in rain (usually a fall or joint problem, not always debris). Downpipes leaking or coming off the wall. Water staining down the brickwork below a gutter run. Fascia boards blistering, peeling or visibly rotten. Soffits open where birds are nesting or vents are missing. Full roofline replacement alongside a re-roof.
Leaking gutters wet the wall directly below them. Wet walls in winter freeze. Frozen walls spall bricks, blow render, and dampen plaster inside. A single failed gutter joint left for two winters can be a four-figure fix on the wall.
The cost of getting it wrong
The pattern is the same on every affected property.
Water pouring down brickwork in every heavy rain, freezing in winter, blowing brick faces off by the fourth or fifth cold snap.
The wet exterior wall shows up inside as a damp patch on plaster or wallpaper: often on an inside wall you'd never expect to relate to a gutter fault.
Water dumped at the base of the wall from a broken downpipe soaks the ground next to the foundation and overloads perimeter drainage.
Fascias that have rotted let the guttering droop, which makes falls wrong, which makes overflow worse: a feedback loop.
Common mistake, Common mistake: cleaning the gutters instead of checking the falls. Half the overflowing gutters we're called to don't have a debris problem: they have a falls problem or a hidden crack.
Our process
Four straightforward steps.
We look at the runs, downpipes, fascia and soffit condition, and whether roofline timbers need replacing under the boards.
Itemised: labour, materials, waste removal and scaffold or tower if needed: in 3–5 working days.
Old materials stripped and taken away. Fascia and soffit replaced with correct ventilation. New guttering fitted to correct falls, joints sealed properly.
Water tested on completion: we watch it drain to make sure the run works, not just that it looks right.
The benefits
Guttering set to a proper fall so water reaches the downpipe rather than sitting in the middle of a level run.
Joints properly clipped and sealed: no drip strips down the brickwork below.
Fascia and soffit replacement with proper ventilation strips so the roof space breathes.
Direct to gully, not dumping water at the base of the wall.
Where you're replacing part of a run, we match to the existing so the finished frontage reads clean.
For claims work following storm damage: insured, documented, done properly.
In detail
The technical bits and the honest edges.
Standard uPVC half-round and squareline profiles, deep-flow systems for high-rainfall or larger roof areas, ogee cast-iron-look uPVC for period properties, and hopper-and-downpipe systems on more decorative frontages. All fitted to correct falls (typically around 1:600) with proper bracket spacing.
Round and square downpipes routed to gullies rather than splashing at ground level. Where a downpipe currently discharges onto a patio or lawn we'll flag it and quote for connection to drainage properly.
uPVC fascia (18mm and 25mm) with over-fascia or soffit ventilation strips to modern regulations. Vented soffit boards to keep loft airflow correct. Bargeboards, gable-end trim and dry-verge integration where appropriate.
Where fascias have rotted, so has the timber underneath in many cases. We check the timbers as we go and quote timber replacement honestly rather than boarding over rot.
Where a run is largely sound and one joint has failed, a targeted repair is often the right call. Where fascias are visibly rotten, half-measures don't last: a proper roofline replacement is the honest recommendation.
Recent works
Where we work
Usually it's falls, a hidden crack, or a joint that's opened up. Debris is only about half the overflow calls we get.
Twenty years plus if fitted correctly. Cheap-fitted rooflines can fail in ten.
Yes: old guttering, fascia, soffit and any rotten timber removed at completion, priced into the estimate.
Yes: we'll match existing where you're replacing part of a run so the frontage looks like one job, not a patch.
As part of a repair or install, yes. Standalone one-off gutter cleaning isn't our main trade: a dedicated cleaner will usually be cheaper for that.
Depends on the property. Bungalows and single-storey rears often just need a proper tower; two- and three-storey work usually needs scaffold. We flag it in the estimate.
Yes: best time to replace guttering, fascia and soffit is when the scaffold is already up for a re-roof. We handle both together.
Yes: Highworth, Swindon, Lechlade, Fairford, Cirencester, Faringdon, Witney, Burford and Shrivenham.
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Free site visit at a time that suits. Written, itemised estimate in 3–5 working days. Staged payments, nothing due before we start.
