Repairing wooden guttering

[stashio]

Hi all I'm 'lucky' enough to live in a grade 2 listed house with wooden guttering. The gutters have split in places and have started to leak so need repairing and I wanted to run my plan by you guys before buying the gear, etc...

So the plan is to keep things simple, one coat of bitumen paint inside the gutter, line with felt, allow 24 hours to dry before a final coat of bitumen. Does that sound OK?

Cheers

 

[catlad]

Why are you not just re-lining it with lead.

 

[stashio]

There isn't any lining in the guttering at all. Lead would be best I guess but tar and felt is cheaper, I hope I'll get a good few years out of it before it needs re-doing.

 

[catlad]

Then someone has nicked it, ubiflex will be a cheaper option.

 

[Alastairreid]

Never seen wooden guttering but found this interesting read.

http://www.biffvernon.freeserve.co.uk/wooden_gutters.htm

 

[wrightwoodwork]

Interesting read I've not seen either. I've seen wooden light switches from old houses

 

[catlad]

Still a bit left round this area but they have always been lead lined.