Hi,

What's the best (safest) way to replace guttering? Had a quote from a
pro for £200 labour and £100ish parts. Does that seem reasonable? I
wondered whether for £200 I could hire some scaffolding/a cherry
picker and do it myself? I don't think I would feel comfortable at the
top of a ladder "hands free".

Thanks.

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Fred writes:
Hi,

What's the best (safest) way to replace guttering? Had a quote from a
pro for £200 labour and £100ish parts. Does that seem reasonable? I
wondered whether for £200 I could hire some scaffolding/a cherry
picker and do it myself? I don't think I would feel comfortable at the
top of a ladder "hands free".

Last lot I did, I had scaffolding. I was however also repairing
the roof and needed to pile up the tiles, and replacing and painting
the facias. I would say the scaffolding made it all so easy, and safe
compared to a ladder, that I would consider using it again even
for simpler tasks such as just doing gutters and facias. (No point
doing gutters without painting or if necessary replacing facias IMO.)
Scaffolding was £300 for a 5m long wall up to just below the first
floor gutter line, but cantilevered over a porch and ground floor bay
window roof which I didn't want them to put any weight on. Might even
find cost of that sort of thing drops in the current building climate.

--
Andrew Gabriel
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Fred wrote:
Hi,

What's the best (safest) way to replace guttering? Had a quote from a
pro for £200 labour and £100ish parts. Does that seem reasonable? I
wondered whether for £200 I could hire some scaffolding/a cherry
picker and do it myself? I don't think I would feel comfortable at the
top of a ladder "hands free".

Thanks.

You could probably do it youself for that, but why bother? - he's doing it
for that and *you* don't have to get covered in rotted leaves and put
yourself in danger into the bargain.

I normally charge approx £300 per elevation, IE mid terrace = £600, semi =
£900 and detatched = £1200

Phil L wrote:
Fred wrote:
Hi,

What's the best (safest) way to replace guttering? Had a quote from a
pro for £200 labour and £100ish parts. Does that seem reasonable? I
wondered whether for £200 I could hire some scaffolding/a cherry
picker and do it myself? I don't think I would feel comfortable at the
top of a ladder "hands free".

Thanks.

You could probably do it youself for that, but why bother? - he's doing it
for that and *you* don't have to get covered in rotted leaves and put
yourself in danger into the bargain.

I normally charge approx £300 per elevation, IE mid terrace = £600, semi =
£900 and detatched = £1200



Essentially a 2 blokes/2 ladders operation I would have thought

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What's the best (safest) way to replace guttering? Had a quote from a
pro for £200 labour and £100ish parts. Does that seem reasonable? I
wondered whether for £200 I could hire some scaffolding/a cherry
picker and do it myself? I don't think I would feel comfortable at the
top of a ladder "hands free".

Thanks.

You could probably do it youself for that, but why bother? - he's
doing it
for that and *you* don't have to get covered in rotted leaves and put
yourself in danger into the bargain.

Why bother with diy at all. Just leave it to the professionals and spend
your spare time watching your bank balance diminish. :-)

I normally charge approx £300 per elevation, IE mid terrace = £600,
semi =
£900 and detatched = £1200

Some of us don't have £1200 to spare for such a simple task, some of us
that do just prefer to keep savings for essential work we can't do
ourselves and some of us are just workaholics. Hmm, I seem to fit into
all three categories.

Essentially a 2 blokes/2 ladders operation I would have thought

I replaced half the guttering on my house and put up guttering on my
barn last summer working on my own from a ladder. About 100 feet of
plastic in total. I didn't find it much of a problem although I have
since bought a stand-off to make doing the final section a bit easier.
Previous guttering was wooden and replacing wood with wood would have
been more difficult on account of the weight, but probably much quicker.
However I expect the plastic to last longer than the wood did.

--
Roger Chapman