We look first
From the ground, along the whole run rather than the visible part. On a long farmhouse roofline that walk is the difference between clearing the blockage and clearing the bit you can see.
On a long farmhouse run the overflow tells you where the blockage is, not that the gutter is beaten. Water comes over at the lowest full point, and on the sort of houses around Adamstown that can be forty feet from where anybody ever looks.
The overflow goes when the run is emptied.
Not just the length by the front door.
It goes in the bag, not on your beds.
Priced from photos, before we come.
Longer runs, fewer eyes on them, and a fill that happens in two short bursts a year.
Farmhouses and one-off homes around Adamstown carry far more metres of gutter than a terrace does, and much of it is down the side or round the back. A section can be full for a season with nobody passing under it.
Inland farmland and hedgerow country fills a gutter with a mix: pollen and leaf off the ditches, fine soil off the fields at ploughing and harvest. The soil binds the leaf, and that is what stops it washing through.
A gutter carries far less water when it is half full. The first heavy shower after the run has packed is when it comes over the front, and it comes over in the same place every time after that.
Around Adamstown and out towards Clonroche, the sides and the back are almost always worse than the front. If yours came over in the last heavy shower, the useful photo is of the length above where the water appeared, not of the front of the house.
The run, all the way round.
Four steps, none of them rushed.
From the ground, along the whole run rather than the visible part. On a long farmhouse roofline that walk is the difference between clearing the blockage and clearing the bit you can see.
The mat comes out in sections and goes straight into the bag. Where it has set hard it is lifted rather than dragged, so nothing pulls against the brackets holding the run in place.
The full length is gone over, including the corners, so there is no section quietly holding water behind you. The runs are the work.
What came out is bagged and on the van. The ground under the run is put back the way it was, and you hear straight what we found.
We are through here regularly, so a gutter clear rarely means waiting for a special trip out.
The village and the farmland around it, with Clonroche and Bree on the same run and Barntown on the road towards town.
Wider out we cover Enniscorthy and Wexford Town, with Ballyhogue and Ballymurn in between. Show us the roofline in a photo and you will get a straight answer.
Every visit, not as extras.
If the roof is on your mind as well, say so when you book. Done together they share the one set-up, and the runs get cleared after whatever comes off the tiles rather than before it.
See roof cleaning in AdamstownMostly asked the day after a heavy shower.
Rarely. A run that has carried water for years and suddenly comes over the front is nearly always full rather than failed. Clearing it is the first thing to try and the cheaper answer by a distance.
Yes. The overflow shows you the lowest full point, not the only full point. Clearing the length either side of it is what stops it moving to the next low spot after the next shower.
Clearing the accessible gutter runs, bagging what comes out, taking it with us and checking the length end to end before we leave. The runs are the job — that is what the figure covers.
Gutter cleaning starts at €75. On a long farmhouse roofline the metreage is what moves it, so send a photo from the ground and you will get a figure rather than a range.
Send the essentials and we will come back with a day and a price. From €75, and no hidden extras.