South Wales Concrete Gutter Replacement

If your house has finlock gutters – also known as concrete gutters – then it’s one of only 70,000 built in the UK with this guttering solution installed. The reason for this relatively low number is that concrete gutter problems are incredibly common, and concrete guttering repair alone isn’t a viable solution.

Time and again, when concrete gutters start to fail, the solution offered is to apply or replace a concrete gutter lining. Sealing concrete guttering in this way is never going to solve the problem however, due to the nature of the gutters themselves. In simple terms, the lining in a concrete gutter is only intended to seal the joints where the different sections of concrete meet, and if the guttering itself is failing, the problems such as the concrete falling away externally are only going to get worse.

What this means is that options like concrete gutter lining or concrete guttering repair can never truly solve the problem of failing gutters.

The only way to completely deal with the impact of finlock gutters which are starting to fail is to replace them completely with uPVC guttering. The nature of this impact can be severe, and can include problems such as mould growth, damp patches on interior walls and water marks indicating moisture leaking from the guttering to the inside of the house.