{"id":20672,"date":"2023-03-21T21:45:31","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T20:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=20672"},"modified":"2023-03-21T23:17:10","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T22:17:10","slug":"guttering-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/guttering-at-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Guttering.. at last!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been several days since any work was done on my house but it gave me the chance to clear and sweep out the interior and remove all of the scrap wood and much of the rubble that had been piled up out at the back. I don’t need to do any of this as it’s really the job of the builder and\/or their sub-contractors but I think that if when they turn up to work they see the site in a clean and tidy condition it’ll encourage them to treat it with respect and do a good job.<\/p>\n

But this morning when I peeked out of my caravan door at just gone 7.30 am expecting to see nothing happening as usual, a workman was already up on a ladder at the back of the house preparing to start work on the fascias and guttering. In fact there turned out to be a team of three workers who were a friendly bunch and who got stuck in with gusto getting the job done.<\/p>\n

Here are some shots that I took with my drone after they’d already got the rear fascia in place and had started on the front of the house.<\/p>\n

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I popped into Victor and Madeleine’s during the afternoon and dashed back at around 5.00 pm expecting to find the team still on site and maybe clearing up. But no, they’d finished and gone leaving everything clean and tidy behind themselves.<\/p>\n

When I left for Victor and Madeleine’s I noticed that they were fabricating the guttering in continuous lengths on site using an extrusion machine mounted in the back of their van. It’s a technique I’ve only ever seen previously on Youtube in the USA and I wish now that I’d taken a photograph before leaving.<\/p>\n

It means that there’s only a single joint in the guttering on both the front and the back of the building and as the bends in the down-pipes are also created without joints on site, the finished job looks very smart and streamlined as the following pics show.<\/p>\n

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As the lengths of guttering are extruded spacers are inserted at a regular intervals inside between the front and back faces. These act as strengtheners and also prevent the guttering being too easily crushed from the front. You can see them in the next pic. The guttering material comes in the form of aluminium strip in rolls. It’s already coloured, by powder coating I think, and in the pic you can see that it’s ‘beige’ (what we’d call cream) on the outside and white inside. <\/p>\n

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The final series of images include various general shots and some close-ups of some of the details.<\/p>\n

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The next shot shows the ceiling in the porch. I was asked where I wanted the light to be and I decided that it should be in the centre of the doorway and mid-way between the door frame and the front of the porch. It means that it’s offset from the ‘geometric centre’ but I think that if a visitor comes to the door, the light should be right over their head. <\/p>\n

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Here’s a shot showing how the soffits look, the space under the edge of the roof between the guttering and the wall.<\/p>\n

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I was wondering how, since they’ve fixed the down-pipes to the walls, what would happen when the next team arrives to apply the ‘Cr\u00e9pi’ (the special wall plaster). As the final image shows, they’ve thought of that because the brackets attaching the pipes to the walls have ‘stand-offs’ of the same size as what will be the thickness of the ‘Cr\u00e9pi’.<\/p>\n

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So after today the exterior of the house is ready for the ‘Cr\u00e9pi’ gang to turn up and do their stuff. I don’t know when that will be – it would be nice if it was tomorrow as it’s forecast to turn out as glorious as it was today as the final shots, which were taken at around 5.30 pm, show. As I mentioned in an earlier post, it would be even nicer if two teams turned up and both the ‘Cr\u00e9pi’ went up and the floor-levelling screed went down on the same day, but I think that might be asking for a bit too much \ud83d\ude15 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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