Hi Tom It makes a lot of difference when you have sight and have been installing guttering for 20 years.
He owns the business does the quotes and installs. Time on the job is important so doing it correctly the first time is vital, especially when you are paying a mate to help, I guess an hourly rate. We have 18 inch eves, so if water somehow over flows it should not run into the wall space. But however a work mate built a new house and there was not enough down pipes to carry the water away. This run into the wall space and they had to replace the dry wall carpet and put into that side of the house two more down pipes Luckily he was covered under the new home warranty. The builder had to do the work at his expense. New homes do not have large eves and most are flush with the outside wall thus this problem occurred. . We are going through a very dry period here with Summer at full blast. So I will be interested to see what happens when we have very heavy rain Regards Ray From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Fowle Sent: Thursday, 5 February 2009 8:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Guttering and Down Pipes All Replaced. Hey Ray, do you really mean this guy cut all the guttering and stuff with just a plain old hand held hacksaw? Wow, to me that either means he's cheap or he really has the experience to be able to do it perfect the first time. And from what you say, it's the latter possibility. He knows he can do a good job with a basic tool so isn't worth the effort to buy and maintain a power saw that might not do a better job and would cost more. That's craftsmanship! Tom [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
