Guttering Aluminium VS Gutters of PVC

Let's face it: no one stands on a Sunday thinking: "oh What a desire I have to look at my gutters!". We usually remember them when it starts to rain, the façade looks like a waterfall water park.

If you are hesitating between install gutters of PVC or make the jump into the aluminum continuous, you are in the right place. We're going to rip both materials are technically (and bluntly) to see why the plastic is a thing of the past.

The Ring Technical: Aluminum Continuous in front of the PVC

1. The great enemy of PVC: The sun end and a "cookie."

PVC (policluro vinyl) it is an old well-known in the construction but it has an Achilles ' heel of the size of the Iberian Peninsula: the changes of temperature and ultraviolet radiation.

Under the sun end of the southeast Murcia and Alicante, the plastic loses the plasticizers that give you flexibility. The result? Becomes stiff, brittle, and suffers from the "effect" cookie: the minimum stroke or hail, crack and break. Technically, the PVC lacks the dimensional stability required to withstand decades of exposure to thermal severe without being degraded structurally.

The aluminum, in turn, laughs at the sun. Will not crack, will not deform with the extreme heat and withstands impact without batting an eye.

2. The dread together: The point where everything starts to drip

How to install the PVC? In stretches of just a few square together by pieces of joint, glue or rubber bands. Each of these junctions is a time bomb. With the expansion of the materials, the boards end up giving in and opening up.

Our philosophy with the aluminum continuous is radically different:

Zero boards = Zero leaks.

The gutter is manufactured in a single continuous piece along the entire facade. Without splicing intermediate, the water has only one way: get to the downspout.

3. In Situ fabrication: Your gutter out of the van like churros

This is the most surprising to our customers. We are not prefabricated parts to see if they fit the strength in your roof.

We parked at the front of your home with our profiling machine mobile and mold and cut the aluminum to the exact measure of your canopy in the act. It is a clean process, quickly, and with the precision of a tailor, but in industrial version. Your gutter is born in your own door.

4. Edge aesthetics: beyond the grey plastic of a lifetime

PVC tends to give you the choice between gray, white, and, if you put exotic, brown. The aluminum continuous opens a range for lovers of design and architecture:

Forms: Profiles aesthetic (like the classic semicircular, Overhang or Type K in different sizes) that are integrated into the façade as if they were a decorative molding.
Colors: An immense range of finishes, lacquered and textured satin finish that does not lose color over the years and combine it with any type of tile or paint.

The corner of the professional: Regulatory Compliance

If we get serious, the installation of systems of water disposal is not a game of diy; it is regulated. The Technical Building Code (CTE), in its Document Basic Sanitation (DB-HS 5: Evacuation of the waters), stipulates the requirements for sizing of gutters and downpipes according to the intensity precipitation of each zone.

The aluminum continuous comfortably to comply with these demands thanks to its structural rigidity, which prevents the "buckling" (those curves so ugly that you go to the PVC when heated and that hold standing water, creating breeding sites for mosquitoes and overweight in the anchors).

Our best warranty: the test of The time (32 years is nothing)

In this craft the theory is all very well, but the reality is demonstrated to walk to work. We have 32 years installing systems of water disposal.

A real fact: The first aluminum gutter continuous that we install more than three decades ago is still right up there, undisturbed, fulfilling its function as the first day. Has supported'danas, heat waves historical and there is, as good as new. How many gutters of plastic do you know that have lasted for more than a decade with no end of yellow, cracked or glued with silicone of an emergency? Exact: none.

Summary table: The bread, the bread and wine, wine

So you are not left in no doubt, here you have the x-ray visual of both systems:

Do you want to protect your facade to the next 30 years?

Please contact us for a quote closed, transparent, and no commitment.