Advice
Things worth knowing before you ring anybody
Written by the people who would come out, and specific enough to be useful even if you never call us.
12 July 2026
Ten things worth fixing before the rains
An hour in June is a fortnight in September. The ten checks we do on every maintenance visit between May and July, and which of them you can do yourself.
Every year, between the middle of June and the first week of July, our call volume roughly doubles. It is always the same list — a gutter that has not been cleared since the last rains, a roof sheet that has lifted a screw, a soakaway that silted up in March and nobody noticed because nothing was running into it.
None of that is expensive to deal with in June. All of it is expensive to deal with in September, when the ceiling is stained, the plasterboard has gone soft and the electrician has to come out because water found a junction box.
Clear the gutters first, and clear them properly — a hand and a bucket, not a hose. Then walk the roof line from the ground with binoculars if you have them and look for a sheet whose fixings are proud. Check the soakaway grate. Look at the bottom of every external wall for the tell-tale tide line. Lift the covers on the drains and run a tap.
The five we would rather do ourselves: anything on a roof, anything near the incoming supply, the soakaway itself, any tree work near a wall, and the gutter run on a two-storey house. A ladder on wet ground is how most of the injuries in this trade happen, and none of them happen to somebody standing on the floor.
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