We look first
A walk round the house first, before anything is touched. On an exposed roadside house the two elevations are usually in very different condition, and that difference is what decides where we start.
Gutter Cleaning in Oilgate, Co. Wexford
Water coming over the front of the gutter in a downpour is not a sign the gutter is too small. It is a sign it is carrying less than it was built to, and on this stretch of road what fills it is grit rather than leaf.
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You will see it stop
The overflow goes when the run is emptied.
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Grit as well as leaf
The heavy part is what causes it.
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The whole run
Road side and the sheltered one.
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From €75
Quoted from a photo, not on the day.
Why Oilgate gutters come over so readily
An exposed roadside site fills a run differently to a sheltered one, and it does it all year.
Road film and grit, continuously
Oilgate sits on a main route, so through-traffic lifts fine dust and grit onto the roofline every day of the year. There is no quiet season here the way there is in a sheltered village.
Wind-driven rain packs it in
Properties along this corridor face the prevailing south-westerlies with little shelter. Rain arrives at an angle rather than straight down, which pushes leaf and grit further into the run instead of rinsing it along.
A part-full gutter has no reserve
Once the channel is half occupied, an ordinary Irish downpour delivers more water than what is left can carry. That is the moment it comes over the front, and it will do it in the same place every time after.
Along the main road through Oilgate and out towards Glenbrien and Killurin, the road-facing run is nearly always the heavy one. If yours came over in the last downpour, the useful photo is of the length above where the water appeared.
Everything the visit covers in Oilgate
The run, on both elevations.
How an Oilgate gutter visit runs
Four steps, and most of the time goes on the second.
The run is cleared
Road grit and packed leaf come out of the channel in sections and go into the bag. Grit that has been wet and dried a few times sets hard, so it is lifted rather than dragged.
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.
Cleared away, not left
Nothing is stacked at the side of the house. The ground goes back as we found it and you are told plainly how it looked.
Where we work around Oilgate
This is on our regular run, which usually means a date inside a week or two rather than a month.
The village and the houses along the main road, with Glenbrien and Killurin on the same run and Ballyhogue across country.
Wider out we cover Enniscorthy and Wexford Town, with Ballymurn and Bree in between. One picture from the driveway usually settles it.
What you get in Oilgate
Every visit, not as extras.
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Both elevations clearedThe road-facing run is usually the heavy one.
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The section that caused itFound first, cleared first.
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An honest word on the intervalRoadside houses need it oftener.
Doing the roof as well?
Doing both on the same day means one set-up instead of two, and it means the gutters are cleared after the tiles rather than before them — which is the only sensible order.
See roof cleaning in OilgateQuestions about a gutter that overflows
Mostly asked the day after a downpour.
Does overflowing mean the gutter is too small?
Almost never. A run that carried water fine for years and now comes over the front is carrying less than it used to, because something is sitting in it. Clearing it is the first thing to try.
Why is there grit in it rather than leaves?
Traffic on the main road lifts fine dust and grit onto the roofline all year round. It is heavier than leaf, it goes to the bottom of the channel, and wind-driven rain packs it in rather than washing it through.
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.
What does it cost around Oilgate?
Gutter cleaning starts at €75. What your own comes to depends on how much run there is, how far it has gone and how we get at it. Show us the roofline and we will give you the figure, not a bracket.
Book a gutter clear in Oilgate
Tell us the basics and we will come back to you with a date and a price. Gutter work starts at €75.