Leuven · 3000
Zinc work & gutters à Leuven
Hanging gutters, box gutters, downpipes, valleys and flashings in zinc or aluminium. Leuven brings us two kinds of client: private owners on the edge of the city, and managers of subdivided buildings in the centre.
18 km from our office in Tienen
What that changes here
Box gutters concealed behind a cornice are the rule in the town centre, and the weak point above all others: invisible from the street, they leak into the masonry for years. We rebuild them in soldered zinc with resized outlets, never in patch-up resin.
Leuven is a student city with a historic centre and a great many subdivided buildings. That gives very varied roofs within a few streets: protected facades in the centre, terraced houses with small dormers, and at the back a forest of flat roofs over extensions that are rarely maintained.
What we get called out for in Leuven
Leuven brings us two kinds of client: private owners on the edge of the city, and managers of subdivided buildings in the centre. With the latter, the flat roofs over the extensions and the valleys between two buildings come back again and again — precisely the places that get forgotten when a house is divided up.
Leuven porte le code postal 3000 et se situe in the Dyle valley. Notre équipe part de Tienen, à 18 km : nous y planifions la zinguerie en même temps que les chantiers de Wezembeek-Oppem, Zaventem et Overijse, pour qu’un déplacement serve plusieurs toitures.
- 01Survey
- 02Sizing
- 03Forming
- 04Fitting
The full technical detail of this service is on the page Zinc work & gutters.
Zinc formed and soldered on site, no glued joints
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Pour un devis, la visite à Leuven se fixe en général sous quelques jours ouvrés. Nous partons de Tienen, à 18 km, et nous groupons nos visites par secteur : si un chantier tourne déjà cette semaine à Wezembeek-Oppem ou Zaventem, cela peut aller plus vite. En cas de fuite active, nous venons d’abord bâcher et sécuriser ; la zinguerie n’est chiffrée qu’ensuite.
Zinc is still the benchmark: forty to fifty years, solderable, repairable, and it takes a patina. Coated aluminium costs less, goes up faster and comes in every colour, but its joints are glued or riveted, so they are weaker over time. Galvanised steel we advise against wherever there is road salt or urban air.
In most cases it is undersized, or it serves too much area for a single downpipe. A good Belgian downpour delivers more water than a standard gutter can carry away. The fix is rarely to replace everything: an extra downpipe and resized outlets are usually enough.
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Zinc work & gutters à Leuven
We come out, we go up onto the roof, we photograph. The quotation follows within 24 working hours, item by item.
Not sure about your roof?
The visit costs nothing and the quotation follows within 24 hours. One call is enough to know where you stand.