We start at the ridge
If the roof is part of the visit it goes first, and everything loosened up there falls into the gutters. That is exactly why the gutters are not done first — it would be an hour's work undone.
Gutter Cleaning in Ballycanew, Co. Wexford
If you are already thinking about the roof, do the gutters on the same visit. Not because it is a package, but because half the cost of any visit is the getting ready — and that only has to happen once.
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One visit, one set-up
The part you pay for twice otherwise.
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Top down, in order
Roof first, gutters after. Never the reverse.
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Cleared and taken away
Whatever comes off ends up in our bag.
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From €75
Priced from photos, before we come.
Why a Ballycanew house is often a two-job house
Salt drift from the coast and dust off the tillage land, arriving on the roof and in the run at the same time.
The village sits between two influences
Ballycanew is in north Wexford where salt-laden air drifts in from the coast and settles alongside fine dust from the surrounding tillage land. Neither is dramatic on its own; together they coat a roof and fill a run at the same steady rate.
Hedgerow roads add the leaf
The hedgerow-lined roads around the village put a steady load of leaf and twig debris into the runs through autumn, on top of everything already there.
Which means both jobs come due together
Roofs here pick up growth at much the same pace the runs fill. If one needs doing, the other usually does too — and doing them on separate days means paying for the same half hour of setting up twice.
We run regular rounds through Ballycanew and the parishes around it. Where a house wants both, we do them in the right order on the one visit: the roof first, then the gutters, so nothing loosened up top is left sitting in a run we have already cleared.
What you get in Ballycanew
Every visit, not as extras.
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The whole accessible runBoth elevations, not just the worst one.
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Done in the right orderGutters after the roof, never before.
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One price for the visitQuoted together rather than twice.
Roof and gutters together
Every job starts with the same half hour of getting ready before anything is touched. Booked apart, you pay for that twice. Booked together, it happens once and the rest of the day goes on the house.
See roof cleaning in BallycanewEverything the visit covers in Ballycanew
The run, and how it fits with the rest.
How a combined Ballycanew visit runs
Four steps, and the second is the one that takes the time.
The runs are cleared
Leaf, tillage dust and whatever came off the roof are lifted out of the channel and bagged. Nothing is pushed along the run.
Checked before we pack up
The full run, ends and angles included. What the job covers is the channel itself, and none of it gets skipped because it is awkward.
Everything leaves with us
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.
The Ballycanew year, from the roofline down
Each season decides which of the two is the urgent one.
WinterSalt drift, and growth holding damp on the tiles
SpringCatch-up months, and our quietest diary
SummerTillage dust, and the dry weeks for roof work
AutumnHedgerow leaf into the runs
Covering Ballycanew and the roads around it
We are through here regularly, so a gutter clear rarely means waiting for a special trip out.
The village and the hedgerow roads around it, with Camolin and Gorey on the same run and Courtown over towards the coast.
Wider out we cover Ballymoney and Ferns, with Oulart and Boolavogue inland. A photo from below tells us most of what we need to know.
Questions about doing both at once
Mostly practical ones about the day itself.
Is it cheaper to book the roof and gutters together?
It usually comes to less than the same two jobs booked apart, because the getting-ready happens once instead of twice. Tell us what you are considering and we will price the visit as a whole.
Does the order matter?
It does, and it is not negotiable: tiles before runs. Anything else means paying to clear the same gutter twice in one afternoon.
Can I have just the gutters done?
Of course, and plenty of houses here only need that. It starts at €75, and if the roof genuinely does not need doing yet we will tell you so.
Which parts of the gutter do you do?
The runs — the channels themselves, every length we can reach. They are emptied rather than rinsed through, and what comes out leaves with us.
Book a gutter clear in Ballycanew
List whatever is on your mind — roof, runs, walls — and you will get one figure for the visit. Gutter work starts at €75.