Difference between revisions of "Talk:Guttering"

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Some people have tried to remove gutter single handed and nearly landed themselves in hospital, so surely pointing this out is only wise.
 
Some people have tried to remove gutter single handed and nearly landed themselves in hospital, so surely pointing this out is only wise.
 
[[User:NT|NT]] 17:18, 31 March 2007 (BST)
 
[[User:NT|NT]] 17:18, 31 March 2007 (BST)
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Sure: the article says
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:Gutter sections can be deceptively heavy, and care is needed in removal.
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- which I hope strikes the right balance between a heads-up warning and nannying "kids don't try this at home".
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--[[User:John Stumbles|John Stumbles]] 17:35, 31 March 2007 (BST)

Revision as of 16:35, 31 March 2007

I've made some changes based on my recent experiences of, safely and easily, single-handedly removing rotten cast-iron gutter from my 1938 house and replacing it with plastic. (Maybe Victorian gutter was sterner stuff?)


--John Stumbles 14:48, 31 March 2007 (BST)

Some people have tried to remove gutter single handed and nearly landed themselves in hospital, so surely pointing this out is only wise. NT 17:18, 31 March 2007 (BST)

Sure: the article says

Gutter sections can be deceptively heavy, and care is needed in removal.

- which I hope strikes the right balance between a heads-up warning and nannying "kids don't try this at home".

--John Stumbles 17:35, 31 March 2007 (BST)