[bobby p]

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

[Smudger]

boot polish 

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

Darran

[bobby p]

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

[JUST GUTTERS]

reverse them round they look like new...done this on a job of black faded gutters  and customer was over the moon

[Mike_G]

Try the stuff you can buy to do car bumpers from halfords etc, or maybe some from wilkinsons that might be cheaper

[Smudger]

better clean - good idea

Darran

[ascjim]

new gutters

[richywilts]

new gutters would prob be cheaper and less hassle really easy to fit just measure length of old ones

[bobby p]

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 ) 

[dazmond]

are you short of work bobby?jobs like this are to be avoided mate!!!


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


dazmond

[bobby p]

are you short of work bobby?jobs like this are to be avoided mate!!!


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


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

[christopher b]

not worth the hassel, new gutters for what it costs

[A & J Owen Window Cleaning]

put a price in for replacing them for new. or paint them with a  black gloss hammerite paint. does work do this on mine.