The gutters of 2015 (part 1)

I have eventually got fed up with cutting myself to ribbons lifting up gutter guard every 2 months to remove the dust etc from the gutters, so that they don't overflow every time there is rain.  So we contacted ACT Gutter Services.  Even though they live about 80km North of Canberra they came out and gave us a quote which we accepted.

We had painted the fascias and the gutters a shade of blue which wasn't accommodated in the range of hues offered by the gutter manufacturers so Frances chose a shade of red which matched some of the tones in our bricks.  See below for more on this.

Andrew, for the installers' offered to come out a bit before they put up the new stuff to remove the old so that we can repaint the fascias to match.  So here we go.

The old stuff was just put in a heap, waiting for them to have an empty truck to take it away.  It looked a bit like a modern art installation.

A wombat expressed a critical opinion on the matter.  This raises a matter of taxonomy: are wombats genetically similar to art critics or are art critics genetically similar to wombats.  Possibly even raising the question is being rude to womabats!

It was very clear where we had painted beforehand.  On the original part of the house the fascia was painted behind the gutters but the extension had bare wood in that position.

Here is how the initial stage of repainting looks from the lawn side of the house.

 This shows clearly how the colour chosen matched the bricks and -bonus time - the garage doors ....

 and the woodwork above the windows!

Here is part 2.