Metal Gutta

  Metal Gutta was approached by one of their customers for help on an exhibition at The Strawberry Flower Festival. Ivy Dene Flower Farm were hosting a display which was entirely focused-on renewability and sustainability. The aim of this exhibit was to showcase British flowers from ‘Flowers from The Farm’ members, and they could only use sustainable methods of display. The reason Ivy Dene contacted Metal Gutta was for their copper guttering . Copper is infinitely recyclable and as such makes it great for the environment and an excellent choice for the show. Metal Gutta’s large box guttering was used for the display, cleverly being cut down and made into a trough, the guttering was then filled with soil and flowers. Approximately 60% of the material content used in the production of Metal Gutta’s Copper guttering is from recycled copper, this makes copper one of, if not the most eco-friendly guttering material available in the market today. This coupled with the incredibly long-li

  Copper Downpipe, Guttering and Bends   This was a recent project that we undertook in which we produced copper guttering to be installed on a customer’s house in Malaysia. The guttering in question was our standard half round and featured a mixture of guttering, downpipes, bends, and hopper heads. Copper Guttering and Hopper Head   The hoppers which were produced for this build were our Margaret hoppers, attached to our 80mm  diameter downpipes and our standard half round guttering. A massive installation in an exotic part  of the world, which the customer provided the drawings for us to work to, not only for his summer home but also his pet tiger’s house.   The customer specifically chose us to produce and provide the guttering for him after contacting various other guttering companies around the world and shopping around for the best possible option. We subsequently invited the customer to come and tour our factory and witness first-hand his order being manufactured, whic

 Copper roof ridges and copper guttering  Coppa Gutta is the only manufacturer in the UK supplying copper rainwater systems and we have specialised in copper guttering since 1992. Now to complement the range of guttering, we launched a new copper ridge flashing product at Grand Designs Live in October. For a low cost, natural way to reduce repetitive and often dangerous roof cleaning, installing copper ridge flashing will help to diminish the growth of moss, algae and lichen build up on the roof. Not only can this build up create a dull and dirty looking roof, which can reduce the potential value of the property, it can also cause many structural problems. Even the thinnest layer of moss will act like a sponge, absorbing water and therefore increasing the weight and stress on the roof, shortening its productive life span. Frost can also become a problem pushing tiles up and cracking them. Moss build up on roofs has become more prevalent today since the Clean Air

Three page article on copper guttering in Selfbuild Magazine September 2012 To read the full article click here and type in page 56 at the top. Http://Tinyurl.com/SelfBuildAugSept For more information on our copper guttering visit our website: www.coppagutta.co.uk or follow us on twitter https://twitter.com/Copper_gutter

This month in 'Period Ideas' there was an article giving pointers on how to get your guttering and downpipes ready for the coming months and the onset of winter. Together with a useful action plan to keep your gutters in the best working order was a photograph of our stylish copper guttering on a timber frame home. Of course if copper is the material chosen for the guttering then it will last more than 100 years with very little maintenance required what so ever. Copper requires no decoration, cleaning and virtually no maintenance other than the removal of debris that may fall into the guttering. The reason being that copper is a natural product and acts as  an algaecide and fungicide, keeping growths such as moss and lichen to a minimum, therefore keeping gutters clear and also excellent for rain water harvesting.    For more information visit http://www.coppagutta.co.uk/  or call us on 01489 797774. (Coppa Gutta is a trade mark of Good Directions Ltd, the only UK manu

Last week Good Directions Ltd (incorporating Coppa Gutta) was asked to manufacture six copper boxes to be used to hold square patches of turf. Being an unusual request we asked what the significance of the turf was and why they wanted copper trays. We were told that copper was chosen as it is an environmentally friendly material, totally natural, extremely long-lasting and will help keep the turf alive and healthy as long as possible. The reason for this being that there is a proposed march to Cardiff where children are going to be presenting six members of the Welsh Assembly with turf taken from the Mid Wales uplands, asking the councillors to become trustee's of the turf and protect it from the plans to build massive wind farms across Wales. Hearing of these plans we happily offered to donate the copper trays and to add our voice to the protest. More than 1,000 people are expected to descend on Cardiff Bay on the 24 th May to protest against the plans to blight the Montgomerys