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Continuing on with the installation of your own industrial gutters and guttering system, your existing rainwater gutter run needs to be inspected on a regular basis to ensure that the rain water will be managed correctly and to identify areas that are in need of maintenance or repair. The constant removal of f leaves, needles, grass, bird droppings etcetera needs to be performed frequently. When cleaning your industrial gutters make sure that you do not scratch the gutter’s surface paint when you clean your gutter run. Soiled or blemished gutter parts should be washed with a soft brush and water. Pressure washing, up to a pressure of fifty bar, can also be used. If required, a commercial detergent that has been specifically manufactured to paint the coatings on gutters can be used. The detergent needs to be applied, after which it must be rinsed off after a few minutes with lots of water. The next task to carry out, while installing industrial gutters and guttering systems, is to install the brackets. The first job here is to adjust the angle of the brackets by placing the adjustable bracket against the decorative fascia. Adjust the angle of the bracket so that it is almost level making sure that the front of the bracket is slightly lower than the back. Attach the bracket to its fastening piece with short installation screws. Use only two screws per bracket. If you find that there are no fastening holes that match the required angle then you need to use the closest pair of holes available. Attach each bracket to its fastening piece at its respective pair of holes. The installer must begin the installation of the brackets at the end of the eaves from where you want the slope to start towards the downpipe. The first and the last bracket must be installed at about one hundred and fifty millimetres from the eave ends. Fasten the first adjustable bracket to the decorative fascia board so that the height difference between the, soon to be, level of the roof and the …

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Before any roof painting project starts, the roof, which could be any kind of roof, namely a new roof, old roof, flat roof, metal roof, tile roof, corrugated iron roof, warehouse roof or tin roof, needs to be cleaned first and then primed before it is painted. Galvanized and aluminium metal requires special primers. Rusty metal roof surfaces need to be primed with a white latex metal primer or a rust reforming rust conversion liquid. There are specific ways in which a roof needs to be painted by you or a team of roof painters or painting contractors. As soon as the roof has been cleaned and primed the first coat of paint needs to be applied. In most instances this first coat of roof paint needs to be applied onto the surface of the roof at temperatures above fifty degrees Fahrenheit or ten degrees Centigrade. The paint must be properly stirred before painting the roof with it. The first coat of paint can be applied to dry or slightly damp surfaces, using a hand painting brush, roller or air pressure spray. The paint must be painted on in generous amounts making sure that all pores and cracks are painted over and into. This coat of paint must be applied as smoothly as is practically possible. A minimum of two coats of paint is recommended. Two thin coats are always preferable to one thick coat of paint. Each coat should be applied perpendicular to the preceding coat of paint as this will create the desired effect of a checkerboard pattern. This method guarantees no thinly painted areas and ensures a more uniform finish. Some paints do not require thinners to be added to them as they are at the correct consistency to paint onto the roof immediately. The painting contractors will know that if they apply thinners to a paint that requires no thinners it will reduce the percentage of solids, which will adversely affect the durability of the applied coat of paint. On a rough porous surface, such as concrete tile, four and a half litres of paint will usually cover an …

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It is not always necessary to purchase and install completely new domestic household gutters in homes, houses and residences in residential areas. Professionally qualified and experienced installers or do it yourself household gutter installers can create stronger, better looking gutters by modifying their existing gutter systems. This is easily achieved by minimize joints, assembling strong sleek looking seams and by adding roof flashing to keep the water flowing into the gutters. The tools that you will need to modify your own existing domestic gutters, which have already been installed at the edge of your roof in your house or home, are as follows. A cordless drill, crimper, extension ladder, duckbill tin snips, hex head driver, offset tin snips, pop rivet gun, tape measure, a hack saw and chalk. Materials that you will need include a one and a quarter inch deck screws, gutter hangers, gutter parts such as corners, downspouts, long runs, gutters, downspouts, elbows, gutter flashing, gutter sealant, gutter hanging strap, one eighth of an inch rivets, one and one quarter of an inch self-tapping hex head screws and some quarter of an inch hex head screws or zippers. Many hardware stores in Johannesburg South Africa stock and sell domestic household gutter systems that are designed specifically for the handyman or handywoman to install quickly and easily. However, if you want to install your own complete guttering system you can use the parts purchased at a hardware store to build gutters and downspouts that are strong and attractive. Once you have purchased all the tools and guttering equipment and materials you are now ready to evaluate and plan the domestic household guttering project for your home, house or residence. Installing your own household gutters can and should save you a lot of money compared to the expense involved when hiring a professional qualified and experienced household gutters team to install the gutters for you. Nevertheless, there are a …

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Prior to roof painting a new roof, old roof, flat roof, metal roof, tile roof, corrugated iron roof, warehouse roof or tin roof, there are certain roof surface preparation tasks that need to be completed before the actual painting of the roof is started. The first of these tasks is to inspect the flashings. All the flashings should fit tightly to the roof. Make sure that they have all been secured firmly with screws or taped down. Any flashings or mouldings that are found to be damaged or rusty must be removed, repaired and or replaced. The stacks and vents are the next item to inspect during the surface preparation phase of the roof painting project. The purpose of stacks and vents are to remove excess moisture and fumes from the home or warehouse. Faulty or poor performing stacks or vents will cause moisture to build up between the ceiling and the roof resulting in unwanted condensation. These stacks and vents should be repaired or replaced or additional stacks and vents added to the roof, if necessary. Seams, cracks and stress areas are the next aspects that the roof painters need to inspect. The same roof repair procedure applies to seams, cracks and stress areas that are identified. Remove all dried out caulk or coating. When inspecting the seams the roof painting contractors can tighten the screws if required. Seams, cracks and stress areas that are found or measured to be a quarter of an inch wide have to be repaired. The material used to repair these seams, cracks and stress areas is polyester woven reinforcement. When performing this repair the painting contractors must always put a membrane over the whole seam and not only over the portion that looks faulty. Accumulated water is always a problem on roofs and this aspect needs to be eliminated during the surface preparation phase of the roof painting project. Any area of a roof where water may accumulate or dam up must be repaired by installing drains, polyurethane foam build-up or the application of …

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The two remaining tasks to complete when installing domestic or household gutters in homes, houses and residences in residential areas in Johannesburg South Africa are to fit or fix the gutter sections and then to install the drain pipes or downspouts. The gutter sections need to be fixed or installed from the ground upwards. Most installers, who have been installing household gutters for a long time, find this step to be the easiest step of all during the installation process. These gutter sections are fixed into place using special connectors. These special connectors will ensure that the gutter sections match or line up and snap into the gutter sections. Once this is done the household gutters will need to be fitted or placed into the gutter hangers. In order to make the hanging of the gutters easier, prior to hanging the gutters the installer needs to ask someone to help him or her by supporting or holding the gutters while the installer is busy hanging them. The final task left for the installer during the house gutters installation job is to install the drain pipes in or to the guttering system. The drain pipes, in guttering terminology, are referred to as the downspouts. The first task to install the downspouts is to cut a piece of drainpipe to fit between the downspout elbow joint on the outlet and to the one on the wall of the home, house or residence that you are attaching the gutters to. Place the elbows on the pipe and then snap it onto the outlet. Next the installer needs to make sure that they secure the other elbow onto the wall. To make sure this is done correctly drainpipe hanger must be used. Once the elbow is securely fitted to the wall then another piece of drainpipe needs to be cut and then fitted between the wall elbow and the ‘hang down’. This needs to be fitted at a distance of about one foot above the ground. The drain pipe can then be snapped into the wall. The installer then needs to attach another new elbow joint down near the …

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The fifth step when installing industrial gutters and related guttering systems in offices and or industrial buildings in Johannesburg South Africa is to install the inside straps. This is accomplished by threading the straps through the two rectangular holes that are found in the liners outside. Once these straps are finally in their correct positions the industrial guttering system installer needs to be make absolutely sure that they sit snugly and tightly against or with the decorative fascia’s lip. The installer must be confident and check repeatedly that this is a secure fitting because this is the way in which the decorative fascias are locked into position. After the inside strap has been placed in its correct position what the installer then needs to do is to rivet that strap to the liner. This riveting of the inside strap is accomplished with one eighth of an inch by three eighths of an inch aluminium rivets. Under no circumstances should the installer nail the inside strap into position. During the task of installing or positioning the straps in the correct positions the installer needs to constantly check the alignment of the decorative fascia. The joints need to be specifically checked here as this where the alignment can easily and usually starts going wrong. Fascias with curved bends are susceptible to going skew or in guttering terms ‘spreading’, when they are being transported. This ‘spreading’ characteristic is why the installer needs to constantly check the alignment and then push or bend the curves straight and into alignment if they are found to be skew. As the installer is fitting the decorative fascia sections he or she will need to cut out the bottom flange area to house the downspouts at the outlet location. The decorative fascia sections need to be cut in such a way as to ensure that the downspout will extend up and to the bottom of the liner and not rest against the decorative fascia. There will be times that the industrial gutters …

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The next task that needs to be completed when installing household gutters in homes, houses and residences in residential areas in Johannesburg South Africa is to place the downspout outlets. These downspout outlets need to be attached in line with the chalk line that was drawn at the beginning of the house gutters installation process by using one and a quarter inch deck screws. They need to be attached at the end of the house or home. The location and position of these downspout outlets will be close to but not at the extreme end of the gutter run because the downspout outlets stick out over the house. Installers must make sure that they are firmly attached after which they need to move onto the next task which is to hang the gutter hangers. Installers of household gutters now need to attach the gutter hangers to the fascia every twenty four inches with one and a quarter inch deck screws. The gutter hangers must then be fastened about one inch away from the ends of the roof. Gutter hangers give the gutters a strong form of support. Make sure that enough room is left at the ends of the supports for the gutter caps and the installer must always follow the chalk line that they previously drew at the start of the household gutters installation project. Sticking to this chalk line will ensure and keep the proper drainage required. The next job to complete is to cover the gutter corners. Corners that do not have a downspout and are not positioned at the end of the gutter run need to have the respective joints covered up with gutter covers. If your corners do not have a downspout and aren't located at the end of the run, cover these joints with gutter covers. These gutter covers stop water from leaking out where it should not leak out and this consequently prevents needless damage which then prolongs the life of the household gutters. Once the gutter corners have been covered with gutter covers installers must then cut the gutter sections. This is done by using a …

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The fourth step recommended by Easy Flow Gutters when installing industrial gutters and guttering systems in offices and or industrial buildings in Johannesburg South Africa is to connect the designer decorative fascia. So what is fascia? According to Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia on the internet, fascia is defined as, quote “Fascia is an architectural term for a frieze or band running horizontally and situated vertically under a roof edge, or which forms the outer surface of a cornice, visible to an observer. Typically consists of a wooden board or sheet metal. The word fascia derives from Latin "fascia" meaning "band, bandage, ribbon, and swathe". The term is also used, although less commonly, for other such band-like surfaces like a wide, flat trim strip around a doorway, different and separate from the wall surface. The horizontal "fascia board" which caps the end of rafters outside a building may be used to hold the rain gutter. The finished surface below the fascia and rafters is called the soffit or eave classical architecture, the fascia is the plain, wide band across the bottom of the entablature, directly above the columns. The ‘guttae’ or drip edge was mounted on the fascia in the Doric order, below the triglyph” end quote. Start at the end point, where the liner has started, before you initiate your designer fascia installation. That being said, you can actually start at any point and proceed in any direction because the fascia is splice connected. Place the decorative fascia in position by hooking its lower edge onto the support brackets retaining clip and pulling it to a loose position over the support brackets front the outermost edge. Pulling the fascia into position requires a certain amount of physical strength and one needs to be aware of the fact that it might bend out of its original configuration because of the application of this strong physical force. The decorative fascia is manufactured from a light gauge material in order to …

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The third step performed by professional gutter installers, like those employed by Easy Flow Gutters in Johannesburg South Africa when installing office and industrial gutters and guttering systems, is that of fitting expansion joints. These expansion joints need to be fitted at the end of every fourth liner which will then subsequently split the gutters system into forty foot pieces. The expansion joint is made up of a self-adhesive rubber strip which covers a half inch gap joint between touching sections. At the end of the forth fourth liner, the support bracket spacing needs to be changed and this is achieved by installing the next bracket at thirty one and a quarter inches from the centre of the last bracket. Once that has been done then you need to install the other brackets at twenty nine and three quarter inches on centre until the next expansion joint is met. After that the next liner or set of liners must be fitted with a half inch gap from the previously installed liners. Apply the self-adhesive rubber strip making sure that rubber strip creates and makes a decent bond of rubber to metal. The task of installing the expansion joints has now been completed. Professional installers fitting industrial gutters and industrial guttering systems know that the effectiveness of a gutter system is totally dependent on the way in which the expansion joints have been installed and the spacing used between each of the respective joints. Therefore it is vital that expansion joints be installed at forty foot intervals, no more and no less. However, that being said, the only exception to this spacing distance rule for expansion joint placement, is that it is acceptable if you leave out expansion joints for independent runs of liner which do not extend past fifty feet. The gutter run needs to have end caps fitted or built on both ends to be considered independent. Gutter liners fixed without proper allowance for thermal expansion will cause the related joints to leak. …

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