In the U.K. There are presently in excess of half a million grade one and two listed buildings. In a nutshell these are all properties built before the year 1700 and nearly every other property built between 1700 and 1840.
A governmental division known as either the Historic buildings and Monuments Commission for England or English Heritage, decides what buildings are listed and when listed they are virtually impossible to be removed.
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The relationship here with cast iron gutters is that practically all these buildings will have cast iron guttering and as it is required that listed buildings have worn or damaged parts supplanted with former materials then there will always be a store for change iron gutters and downpipes.
A friend of mine bought a listed building which was in need of a great deal of mend together with a whole new roof. Most of the former cast iron guttering was missing and had to be replaced. As with every singular item of work carried out on the house, an lawful had to agree the information of every singular piece of work. Apart from guttering, the missing roof tiles had to be supplanted with selfsame tiles to the ones remaining. This took weeks of searching as the house was over four hundred years old and the former tiles were plainly not being made anymore.
Eventually some were found in an architectural reclamation yard. Ironically, being forced to mend the house into the exact replica of the former led to a near total disaster; new electric wire in the roof space was not allowed to be protected under the rules with the proper ducting. A year after all the work was completed to the pleasure of English Heritage, a squirrel bit straight through the unprotected wire and started a house fire which caused a great deal of damage.
Along with the half million protected properties with their cast iron gutters there are also a petite under twenty thousand churches and cathedrals in England. The vast majority of these are several hundred years old with lead lined roofs and former iron gutters.
Although churches do not come under the auspice of English heritage, when the guttering needs replacing then cast iron ones are the only option. You cannot dream how daft a six or seven hundred year old church with stained glass windows would look with Pvc guttering.
Even with today's newly built houses cast iron is a best choice to Pvc. Unfortunately most new houses use Pvc for reasons of cost but any architect worth his salt designing a ample secret property from scratch for a client with the money, will always stipulate cast iron in the plans.
Cast iron guttering not only looks best than Pvc but if fixed properly it will last generations. All that is required is a petite easy maintenance like clearing out the tree leaves in autumn in preparing for the winter rain and snow and a lick of fresh paint every few years.
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