In article , Phil L
scribeth thus
tony sayer wrote:
In article , Phil L
scribeth thus
tony sayer wrote:


Beg to differ guv, as I see it their there to collect the water of
the roof and carry it away not to store it. If they do then
someone's got the angles of downtilt cocked up;!..

Water doesn't run uphill..

And the sandstone slabs are running the wrong way - hardly the fault
of the person who re-lines them with lead.

In general the above gutters should be set with the right fall in the
first place..

They obviously were.
..


What most people here are asking for is ridiculous...it would
involve a full scaffold (£600), removal of sandstone blocks, (heavy
lifting gear req - another £100ish), strip back bottom part of roof,
relay sandstone slabs on top of wall, provided no brickwork moves,
patch up inside house, as oten these blocks are simply plastered
over at the top of each inside wall (£200), plus labour etc and you
are looking at a good few grand to put it exactly how it should be.
Considering the dopey neighbour has been living with a leaky gutter
for christ knows how long, it's highly unlikely that she will pay
thousands of pounds to have this half pint of water removed from her
gutters, which work perfectly BTW.

And it probably did work perfectly until the subsidence which has
caused the guters to run in the opposite direction.

Did anyone mention subsidence?....

No they didn't, but what do you think has caused a solid sandstone gutter to
run in the opposite direction to what it should?

Dunno guv I'm not there on site!..

And neither are U..
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Tony Sayer