
Heritage rooflines, Norfolk pines and port city salt air. Freo gutters are a specialist job, and Kelly treats them like one.
Fremantle gutters have problems most of Perth never sees. The suburb's limestone cottages and federation homes carry ornate ogee gutters and box gutters that are over a century old in places, the streets are lined with towering Norfolk pines that rain needles all year, and the port city salt air works on every metre of metal. Then the gulls arrive each season and treat quiet parapets and gutters as nesting platforms.
This is not a suburb for a rushed scoop-and-run job. Kelly cleans Fremantle gutters carefully, working with older profiles and fragile fixings instead of against them, getting the matted pine needles right out of the runs and valleys, and clearing the debris gulls and pigeons leave behind. You get photos of everything, which for a heritage home is a maintenance record worth keeping.
All gutters cleared by hand, right down to the metal
Downpipes checked and flushed on every job
Roof valleys cleared on tiled roofs
All debris removed from site, nothing left on your lawn
Before and after photos of every section
Honest condition report on your gutters while we are up there
Freo's signature pines drop needles that knit into dense mats. They hold water against gutter steel for months and are the single biggest gutter killer in the port city.
Fremantle metal lives a hard life. Salt accelerates rust in gutters and downpipes, especially where damp debris keeps the surface wet between rains.
Ogee gutters, box gutters behind parapets and original downpipes block more easily than modern profiles and cost real money to replace, which makes regular cleaning the cheap option.
Nesting material, feathers and droppings build up fast on Fremantle rooflines, adding blockages and a corrosive mess on top of the usual leaf litter.
Free quote, honest price, photos of the finished job. Deal direct with Kelly.
Kelly covers the neighbouring suburbs too. Same service, same photos, same honest pricing.