seamless custom guttering

[Tom]

Evening all

I am trying to find somewhere that will produce a folded gutter profile - essentially a "P" (on it's front) cross section. I have found a place which will produce whatever profile I need - but only in 3m sections. The longest run I need is just over 18m - so that will be at least five joins between sections. The gutter is going to be hidden behind the cladding and will be above the walls, so ideally I want a continuous section that I will be confident won't leak. Does anyone know if anywhere that can do this? There are firms that will prduce seamless gutter on-site from the back of their vans - but this is only in a ogee profile and will be too small. The largest of the gutters will need to be formed from approx 800mm wide sheets. Any ideas? There are liners for gutters too I believe, would this work?

Many thanks

[markc]

Long lengths can (and are) rolled on site (by specialist mobile gutter companies) but these are fairly small gutter sizes. Very few sheet fabrication shops have press brakes longer than 3m, bigger fabrication and shipbuilding shops will have 6m capacity but they wouldn’t be interested in gutters.

Note to self …read the whole post before typing 🙈

Edited January 31, 2023 by markc

[Tom]

Cheers Mark. Any experience of gutter liners?

[JohnMo]

If they are being hidden - practical question, how do you clean them? How do you know when they are overflowing and washing your walls?

 

 

[Tom]

Clean them by sticking your hand in them I guess, same with any other gutter. As for overflowing I suppose you just make sure that they don't!

[PeterW]

Why not use EDPM or GRP..? Would get the seamless gutter then ..? And probably less likely to creep as metal gutters may expand in hot weather 

[Tom]

Yep, I'm leaning towards an EPDM liner for the folded profiles. Has any one used these before?

[Surfiejim]

I'm trying to  solve the same thing here in Cornwall. I'm thinking about welded aluminum is 3 m lengths. Lasermaster will fold it to the profile required. I'm happy for any better suggestion though. Mine will need to be rigid.

[Tom]

23 minutes ago, Jamie Kent said:

I'm trying to  solve the same thing here in Cornwall. I'm thinking about welded aluminum is 3 m lengths. Lasermaster will fold it to the profile required. I'm happy for any better suggestion though. Mine will need to be rigid.

Have a look here Jamie: https://www.panelsandprofiles.co.uk/

Think we'll probably go with these guys for the folded gutter as well as the profiled panels for roof/cladding.