8inch plastic guttering
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organicguy
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- Location
- North East of the south west
Dont ,use plastic, galvanised box steel. By the time you take into account the extra brackets for plastic steel will not be much more expensive.
Steevo
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- Location
- Gloucestershire
+1 on swapping to steel!
Every time I've used plastic gutter I've wished I'd gone with steel.
You can still get round steel gutter, it doesn't have to be box. I replaced some fibre cement gutter with it a while back and still used the same brackets.
Every time I've used plastic gutter I've wished I'd gone with steel.
You can still get round steel gutter, it doesn't have to be box. I replaced some fibre cement gutter with it a while back and still used the same brackets.
We always spec deep flow plastic gutters unless it's a valley gutter, as the bolts in the joins of galv gutters act as a dam and keep a slurry in the bottom that rots the gutters over time, deep flow with brackets at 800mm centres is a good gutter and cheap to replace when hit by a loader.
fermerboy
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- Location
- Banffshire
My dad work for you as well then??
Massey 6470
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- Location
- Co Antrim
Ive used this
http://www.hunterplastics.co.uk/products/rainwater/200mm-stormflo/
Although I'm told it doesn't like too much snow it's on 100 ft X 65 ft shed with only 1 outlet at each side at the end and haven't seen it run over yet and I'm in NI so plenty of the wet stuff 6" outlet
http://www.hunterplastics.co.uk/products/rainwater/200mm-stormflo/
Although I'm told it doesn't like too much snow it's on 100 ft X 65 ft shed with only 1 outlet at each side at the end and haven't seen it run over yet and I'm in NI so plenty of the wet stuff 6" outlet
- Location
- Near Colchester
I have used the deep flow plastic 8 inch ad am very happy with it.
On a new shed I specified steel, they put the gutter up dead level, about which I complained bitterly but was told that is now 'regulations'. Stupid double bolts (stainless) in the bottom of every joint (3m) means that there is always some water in there somewhere and the bolt heads hold back any solid matter meaning the whole gutter has 10mm of crap in it at any one time.
Who makes these 'regulations'?
On a new shed I specified steel, they put the gutter up dead level, about which I complained bitterly but was told that is now 'regulations'. Stupid double bolts (stainless) in the bottom of every joint (3m) means that there is always some water in there somewhere and the bolt heads hold back any solid matter meaning the whole gutter has 10mm of crap in it at any one time.
Who makes these 'regulations'?
- Location
- Near Colchester
I happened to be in the area today (in a cherry picker) and thought that I would take a picture.
Looks like this end is a couple of mm higher than the rest but the water and sludge are pretty even all the way down, I would have had the shed put up with full had I have been told at the beginning.
Looks like this end is a couple of mm higher than the rest but the water and sludge are pretty even all the way down, I would have had the shed put up with full had I have been told at the beginning.
foxbox
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- Location
- West Northants
Ours looks like this too; can't work out why it's not bolted with dome heads instead of standard bolts and from inside the gutter rather than having the nuts in there
- Location
- Newcastle upon Tyne
Try Gutter Supplies Industrial guttering. https://www.guttersupplies.co.uk/products/black-industrial-guttering/
Not a bad price and excellent service. Used them a couple of times.
Not a bad price and excellent service. Used them a couple of times.
Happy hillbily
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- Uwchaled, North Wales
Probably no regulations, just fobbing you off, save taking the gutter down and putting it up properly !
- Location
- Near Colchester
Is your building green too?Ours looks like this too; can't work out why it's not bolted with dome heads instead of standard bolts and from inside the gutter rather than having the nuts in there
foxbox
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- Location
- West Northants
It is indeed, it's been up for about 10 years now
- Location
- Near Colchester
Maybe it is just their silly idea then?
Goweresque
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- Location
- North Wilts
My father retrofitted some large plastic valley gutters to a series of adjoined sheds back in the late 70s/early 80s. He had some long (8m I think) 12" diameter heavy duty water pipes (10mm wall), cut them exactly in half and used each half as a length of gutter. They were so rigid he just rested them on the A frames where they joined the uprights, with one support point in the middle of each bay. As the pipes had socket joints, they could just be bolted together with plenty of bitumastic gutter sealant. They're still in place today, no leaks, massive capacity, never over flow even in torrential rain.
Dman2
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- Durham, UK
We use these
http://www.specialistproductsuk.co.uk
Just tell them what size and profile and they will bend galv sheet to match
Far better than plastic
http://www.specialistproductsuk.co.uk
Just tell them what size and profile and they will bend galv sheet to match
Far better than plastic