Gutter Cleaning — Prospect Hill Road, Canterbury

A terracotta roof sheds more than leaves. The tiles are porous, they hold moisture through winter, and moss and lichen take hold in the laps and shed steadily into the gutter below. That fine material settles into the base of the channel where it is easy to miss from the ground and hard to flush out with water.

Vacuum extraction did the work from outside the roof line, so no weight went onto brittle tiles. Coarse debris came out first, then the fine sediment underneath. Downpipes were checked individually once the runs were open — on a tile roof the sediment travels, and the outlet often holds more of it than the channel does.

• Gutter runs vacuum cleared without roof access
• Fine sediment removed from the base of the channel
• Downpipes checked and cleared individually
• Tile laps left undisturbed, no foot traffic on the roof
• Flow confirmed across the full run
• Before and after photographs supplied

• Gutters and downpipes draining freely
• No cracked or displaced tiles — the roof was never walked
• Fine sediment cleared, not just surface debris
• Roof surface condition noted for the owner