Gutter Camera Check

Clear the blockage, then look inside the gutter on camera, so you know whether you actually need a repair.

Before you pay for a gutter repair

When a gutter overflows or drips, most people assume it is broken and start looking for someone to repair it. Very often the real cause is simpler: the run is blocked with leaves, moss and silt, and the water has nowhere to go but over the edge.

To be clear from the start, we do not carry out gutter repairs. What we do is clear the guttering with high reach, ground level vacuum equipment and film it with a pole mounted camera, giving you before and after photographs or video of the inside of the gutter.

That footage helps identify any potential repairs. If the gutter works properly once it is clear, you have saved yourself a repair bill. If the camera shows a problem, such as a sagging section or a split joint, you can show the footage to a repairer and get the right job quoted.

Cleared first

The run is vacuumed out, which is often all an overflowing gutter needs.

Filmed on a pole camera

Before and after photographs or video of the inside of the gutter.

Potential repairs spotted

The footage helps identify any problems worth getting a repairer to look at.

No repair work

We do not repair gutters, so there is no incentive to find faults that are not there.

Blocked or broken

Why a blockage looks like a leak

A gutter that is full of debris behaves exactly like a damaged one. Water spills over the front edge, drips from joints that are sitting under a pool of sludge and runs down the wall. From the ground it is almost impossible to tell the difference.

Clearing the gutter first answers the question. Once the run is empty, water can reach the downpipe, and many overflows stop straight away.

Where something genuinely is wrong, the camera footage gives you evidence rather than guesswork, which makes it easier to get an accurate repair quote from a specialist.

What the camera check includes

  • Vacuum clearing of accessible gutter runs
  • Before footage from the pole mounted camera
  • After footage once the run is clear
  • Downpipe tops cleared where reachable
  • Any visible issues pointed out to you
  • Debris removed and the ground left tidy

Signs worth checking on camera

  • Water pouring over the gutter edge in rain
  • Drips from a joint or corner
  • Streaks down the wall under one spot
  • Plants growing from the gutter
  • A downpipe that stays dry in heavy rain
  • A gutter that looks like it is sagging

How the check works

  1. 1

    Film the starting state

    The pole camera records the inside of the gutter before anything is touched.

  2. 2

    Vacuum the run

    Leaves, moss and silt are drawn out from the ground.

  3. 3

    Clear the outlets

    Downpipe tops are cleared where they can be reached.

  4. 4

    Film again

    After footage shows the clear run and anything underneath the debris.

  5. 5

    Talk it through

    We show you what we found so you can decide whether a repair is needed.

Gutter camera check questions

See gutter vacuuming and vac clearing

Where we work

We travel up to 45 miles from our NE37 base in Washington, seven days a week, which takes in Sunderland, Newcastle, Gateshead, Durham and the towns listed on our areas page.

See the towns we cover