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Title: black plastic gutters- faded- can they be made to shine?
Post by: bobby p on April 19, 2011, 08:02:51 pm: a customers asked me to clean his black plastic gutters ,i have looked and they look clean already but faded,greyish in places . anybody know a way to make them look better after i have scrubbed them by hand? ive a feeling the sun has dulled the plastic
Title: Re: black plastic gutters- faded- can they be made to shine?
Post by: Smudger on April 19, 2011, 08:11:43 pm: boot polish ???

if sun faded then i doubt anything will restore the colour.

Darran
Title: Re: black plastic gutters- faded- can they be made to shine?
Post by: bobby p on April 19, 2011, 08:20:38 pm: cheers for the idea of the BOOT POLISH. i think the bloke has seen a house at end of terrace with new gutters so he feels left out . As its a small gutter run,only 13 feet front and same at the back scrubbing first with water+ cif on a rag and then bootpolishing the lot wont be ridiculous to do
Title: Re: black plastic gutters- faded- can they be made to shine?
Post by: JUST GUTTERS on April 19, 2011, 08:50:41 pm: reverse them round they look like new...done this on a job of black faded gutters and customer was over the moon
Title: Re: black plastic gutters- faded- can they be made to shine?
Post by: Mike_G on April 19, 2011, 08:54:32 pm: Try the stuff you can buy to do car bumpers from halfords etc, or maybe some from wilkinsons that might be cheaper
Title: Re: black plastic gutters- faded- can they be made to shine?
Post by: Smudger on April 19, 2011, 08:59:11 pm: better clean - good idea

Darran
Title: Re: black plastic gutters- faded- can they be made to shine?
Post by: ascjim on April 20, 2011, 04:32:51 pm: new gutters
Title: Re: black plastic gutters- faded- can they be made to shine?
Post by: richywilts on April 20, 2011, 04:46:25 pm: new gutters would prob be cheaper and less hassle really easy to fit just measure length of old ones
Title: Re: black plastic gutters- faded- can they be made to shine?
Post by: bobby p on April 27, 2011, 05:44:45 am: update- i first wiped them with a rag+cif , came up shiney but still faded and a bit grey . then tried the black boot polish, no good still looked grey

as i was finishing the owner came outside and asked was there much muck in the gutters then . turns out he meant clean the insides only (although on the phone he said it was the outsides of the gutter he wanted doing )
Title: Re: black plastic gutters- faded- can they be made to shine?
Post by: dazmond on April 27, 2011, 07:24:35 am: are you short of work bobby?jobs like this are to be avoided mate!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D

i can just see you up a ladders smearing boot polish on his gutters!!! ::) ::) ;D ;D ;D

dazmond
Title: Re: black plastic gutters- faded- can they be made to shine?
Post by: bobby p on April 27, 2011, 07:38:15 am: Quote from: dazmond on April 27, 2011, 07:24:35 am
are you short of work bobby?jobs like this are to be avoided mate!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D

i can just see you up a ladders smearing boot polish on his gutters!!! ::) ::) ;D ;D ;D

dazmond
ive got bags of work so im not sure why i took it/him on ,he was quite a good talker/railroader on the phone . after i finished the gutters he then asked to become a regular for his windows so alls well that ends well
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Post by: christopher b on April 27, 2011, 04:24:34 pm: not worth the hassel, new gutters for what it costs
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Post by: A & J Owen Window Cleaning on April 27, 2011, 05:03:18 pm: put a price in for replacing them for new. or paint them with a black gloss hammerite paint. does work do this on mine.