Eaves protection at hips

Hi everyone

Had the gutters over capped, hipped house

Roofer put an eaves protection tray on the eaves but not the hip section, probably because can't get under it due to it being a corner hip Ridge and the wet fixed hip tile

Also it seems that there's leak from the joint coming from next door

I've text him and he's not returning my messages, 25 yr guarantee on email

My question is, if I have to get another roofer, can they install anything to the hips for it the water to go in the gutters as its trickling down the back of the gutters at the moment because it's too short after being over capped. If you look under the eaves, the hips are the only place you can see light, if that makes sense.

Also how easy is it to seal a join on to adjacent neighbour guttering?

Thanks and great forum

Lead sheet to weather the join and there are various gutter adaptors to join to neighbours.
Guarantees are not worth the paper they are written on unless insurance backed.

I know you shouldn’t judge a book by it’s cover and I might be wrong to judge from a tiny picture, but here we have a classic checkatrade roofer with ten thousand fake positive reviews coming along to slap a load of plastic on your house and not even finish the job properly for cash.

The fact that he can’t be arsed to spin around his Wickes bit of downpipe to hide the bar code and then screw the offsets with massive screws knowing full well they will block up with leaves, but, hey ho at least the offsets will never come off. I can’t see the first downpipe bracket which is usually around 200mm down from the offset to support the swan neck but perhaps I’m being picky.

Then he couldn’t be bothered to at least cut the neighbours gutter a few inches longer so he could at least ‘squeeze’ the sides to narrow it into the running outlet and even slap a load of silicone around it, but nah, just leave it there and let the customer sort it. In fact let’s go full on cowboy and put the running outlet on backwards with the screw holes facing out and so nothing is actually holding the outlet against the fascia.

Of course he took all the tiles off didn’t he to properly put the eaves under the roofing felt. Now he’s not answering a simple text to pop back out and rectify a simple problem.

I know I’m sounding agitated but we quote loads of people circa 2 to 3k for a proper strip off job off a scaffold with an insurance backed guarantee and then we lose the job to Mr Clad it who comes along, does a quote by text or on the back of a fag packet and does the job in a day off a ladder and annoyingly earns a higher day rate than my lads who are doing a better job.

Hope you sort it. Cheers.

Thank you for your replies guys

I'm going to have to get a different roofer in and get him to finish it off.

That is quite bad.

Guaranteed shiite alright

Mw Roofline said:

I know you shouldn’t judge a book by it’s cover and I might be wrong to judge from a tiny picture, but here we have a classic checkatrade roofer with ten thousand fake positive reviews coming along to slap a load of plastic on your house and not even finish the job properly for cash.

The fact that he can’t be arsed to spin around his Wickes bit of downpipe to hide the bar code and then screw the offsets with massive screws knowing full well they will block up with leaves, but, hey ho at least the offsets will never come off. I can’t see the first downpipe bracket which is usually around 200mm down from the offset to support the swan neck but perhaps I’m being picky.

Then he couldn’t be bothered to at least cut the neighbours gutter a few inches longer so he could at least ‘squeeze’ the sides to narrow it into the running outlet and even slap a load of silicone around it, but nah, just leave it there and let the customer sort it. In fact let’s go full on cowboy and put the running outlet on backwards with the screw holes facing out and so nothing is actually holding the outlet against the fascia.

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That is exactly what we ended up with, after next door 'got someone in'. Guess their cowboys were not that bad - at least they took the sticky labels off

You have my sympathy - I ended up having to sort it myself.

I must be old school now! that when I am employed to do a job I feel obliged to complete it. I'm guessing you have paid him if he isn't answering his phone.