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[QUOTE=manopello][FONT="Book Antiqua"][SIZE="3"]Can anyone tell me the correct Italian name for galvanised metal? When I talked about our roof and guttering to our Geometra he actually suggested Copper (anyone seen the price recently!!!) guttering. I wasnt uncharitable enough to suggest he may know a local metal dealer !

What we want is metal pipes and guttering but affordable and not quite such a temptation to theieves!

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i sincerely suggest you take your geometra's advice and go for the copper guttering it's actually not that expensive and will last indefinitely whereas i wouldn't take the galvanized zinc for free..by the way unlike the uk nobody would ever steal guttering (i've heard these comments before here about copper theft which never happens,so you won't need to worry on that score)

I quite agree Sebastiano!!

We have just had copper gutters and downpipes fitted and wouldn't even consider another option. They are certainly more in keeping with the other traditional buildings in our area and seem a reasonable price too.

Thank god they haven't started using that disgusting pvc stuff here on the same scale as the UK!

Tim

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Ciao tutti

I'm surprised by what you say as I assumed it was a bit of a leg pull. I stand corrected and will ask Enzo to give me an idea of the price.

dont even start me on UPVC !!!!Hate the stuff it's blighted Cornnwall and should be banned under some EC directive.

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Get it fitted soon - Copper price hit an all time high on the commodoity market yesterday - China is buying it all up for construction etc

[FONT="Book Antiqua"][SIZE="3"]yes this is what I heard 3 days ago.As to getting it fitted now.if only! I'm still waiting to find out if I have Planning Permission.

Ciao

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Ciao Becky,
Enzo advised us to go for the copper works too. Sounds attractive but I'm still waiting for prices (and much more...)
Marc

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[FONT="Book Antiqua"][SIZE="3"]Marco

I'm seeing him on 8th June for a 'progress' meeting so will maybe discover the price and then I can tell you. My other option would be painted metal which The National Trust have around here on their cottages.

have you been told yet to 'put your italian hat on?' frustrating isnt it?

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The copper gutters, and rainwater pipes, are made of very thin copper, which means that they are quite soft and weak, if anything bashes them. The only thing likely to damage a gutter is a carelessly placed ladder, but the downpipes are vulnerabale to vehicles, wheelbarrows etc. etc.

I don't know if you have considered doing without any form of guttering or downpipes? On country houses they are not at all traditional, and if you have a big overhang at the eaves, and an averagely thick wall, there really are not the same issues about rainwater penetration through walls in Italy as there are in the UK.

My last house had no gutters - on one side the rainwater was allowed to fall onto paving and was channelled into an underground storage tank for irrigation, and on the other side it fell onto the only really good planting bed! This meant I had no worries about gutters clogging up, or the downpipes being too small to take the odd temporali, and I didn't have to pay for them. The only downside was that when I arrived home during a mega storm I had to run through a power shower experience before I could get to shelter!