One knew that he was thinking of the repairs to the church, anxious about the gutters, the downpipe, the missing slates on the roof, the painting of the doors and windows.
Of this, the work to re-route the downpipe is estimated to have cost approximately £900.
I put my hand on the boarded area that obviously houses a metal downpipe and that was wringing wet.
After additional works were added including kerbs and re-routing of the downpipe, the final cost will be approximately £43,000.
The same applies to cleaning of rones and downpipes.
On any estate in my constituency one can see that putty is missing from windows, that there are broken downpipes and that there is often no lead flashing.
This is clearly a fault in design, and it seems to be a fairly common fault that the drains and downpipes cannot cope with rain water after a heavy downpour.
A small tube from another downpipe is sometimes used to keep the trap from drying out.
