Aluminium box gutter in non standard ral colour

[G and J]

Just started looking to where we will source guttering.

 

Not going lindlab, very nice but galvanised and were having larch cladding

 

Nearly fell off chair at marley alutec quote.

 

Guttercrest look more "reasonable" cost wise and I see that @Russell griffiths has used and looked good, so 3 questions

 

Russell how's it looking a few years on?

 

Has anyone had more recent dealing with Guttercrest?

 

Who else should I be looking at?

 

Thnx

[Tetrarch]

I looked at Aluflow. I'm going to make a recommendation but with one HUGE caveat

 

www.clearamber.com aluflow deepflow gutterring is superb. Really strong and looks fantastic. Using the deepflow means that I haven't had to introduce any fall and they have no problem shifting water in the heaviest rain. I would unreservedly recommend if it wasn't for one detail......

 

The corners and fittings are cast and the main pipes must be extruded. I have found that the cast parts finish has gone matt over time. To their credit clearamber have offered to replace the faulty parts but 60% are already in-situ and I am loathe to change them out as they are screwed and siliconed. I may keep the roof-line ones as-are and just change the first floor, but I am still weighing my options

 

Regards

 

Tet

 

 

[Russell griffiths]

Mine is all green and dirty, when cleaned it comes up spotless like the day it was put up. 
 

it fits the style of my place well, it matches the roof well. 
 

without wanting to sound like a wa###r is there a reason you just don’t go with plastic. 
it will save you £1200 + is easy to maintain or change if needed. 
 

for a standard looking house I would just use plastic. 

[Gone West]

2 hours ago, G and J said:

Not going lindlab, very nice but galvanised and were having larch cladding

You can have Lindab with a paint finish on top of the galvanising. We had Lindab with western red cedar cladding and fascias with no problems.

[torre]

We've used Guttercrest. They're decent value for aluminium and good quality but still 3-4x cost of plastic and easily that many times as much effort to fix.

 

Jointing can be tricky depending on the profile - read their installation notes. Bitumen tape, silicon and rivets.

 

We fixed straight through the back of the gutters so no visible brackets and a very clean line but it's tricky to do this (or modify later) when your roof covering is on.

 

It was worth the cost and effort to us, but I don't known how many other people noticed much - plastic guttering's pretty ubiquitous.

 

The overlapped welded joints mean a few mm of water ends up trapped. Depending what the insects are like where you are, that may not be something you want.

[JohnMo]

5 hours ago, G and J said:

Not going lindlab, very nice but galvanised and were having larch cladding

To throw a spanner in the works.

 

You need to use stainless screws in the larch, but stainless and aluminium don't like each other, so the aluminium will start to disappear at the fixing holes.

[G and J]

31 minutes ago, JohnMo said:

To throw a spanner in the works.

 

You need to use stainless screws in the larch, but stainless and aluminium don't like each other, so the aluminium will start to disappear at the fixing holes.

Top tip, thanks johnMo

 

5 hours ago, Russell griffiths said:

for a standard looking house I would just use plastic. 

Not a grand design by any means but "clean" modern house, with aluminium windows/porch canopy/parapet capping,silvered (not everyone's cuppa I know) so kind of fits.......if could get it square in ral colour then....... oh and specified on planning (could of course seek a change) but in the end budget may have something to say anyway

 

3 hours ago, torre said:

 

 

We fixed straight through the back of the gutters so no visible brackets and a very clean line but it's tricky to do this (or modify later) when your roof covering is on.

 

It was worth the cost and effort to us, but I don't known how many other people noticed much

Sound like it'll be a "project" but will give satisfaction if we do it.

 

6 hours ago, Tetrarch said:

main pipes must be extruded

Thanks for info.....site restrictions would make even 6m lengths difficult and we have 4 x 12m runs if we did in one piece 😞

[Russell griffiths]

Do you have any thoughts on a trip to the self build centre in Swindon 

I have a 1m off cut of guttercrest stuff you could have, but not going to be able to post it. 
it’s in ral 7016. 

[G and J]

 

3 hours ago, Russell griffiths said:

Do you have any thoughts on a trip to the self build centre in Swindon 

Not at the moment, but that's a great offer, thanks.....will keep in mind

[Alan Ambrose]

Powder coating to any ral colour is fairly easy and cheap. Just ensure you discuss the right powder for outside use and that the original (aluminium, galvanised etc) can take it.

[Mr Punter]

I have used Guttercrest powder coated ali gutters and copings.  Nice quality and still looks OK.  The brackets were fixed with stainless screws.  7 years on no sign of corrosion.

[Kelvin]

On 28/06/2025 at 13:00, Gone West said:

You can have Lindab with a paint finish on top of the galvanising. We had Lindab with western red cedar cladding and fascias with no problems.

It’s what we have. RAL7016 (obvz) It scratches  easily when handled though. Relatively inexpensive. I also fitted the self-cleaning accessory which are plastic and the shoe thing which is metal as we discharge into an attenuation trench although we have a sand trap chamber that would catch most stuff that gets through. They look ok though.