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Cast Iron Effect Company Blog
What's the name of this next storm that's coming in?
Posted by Gemma@CastIronEffect on 16th Oct 2025
I know there's a storm coming next week and am hoping that it's anonymynity is a sign that it won't be too bad. The forecast of the autumny storms signal a busy time for us. Autumn storms seem to give home owners and renovators the nudge to really, really make doubley sure that the rainwater systems are all in working order so their properties are winter ready.
We've been able to plan ahead for this increase in demand now we know the patterns, and have made sure our stocks of cast iron effect gutter and fittings are on track, so as not to cause anybody any delay with their repairs or installations. We also have a lovely relationship with the couriers, that seem to be working with an impressively faultless level of service regardless of where shipments need to get to.
What's going on in the last quarter of 2025 at the Cast Iron Effect Company?
The Cast Iron Effect Company, is an arm of Edge Building Supplies Ltd - which supplies many different types of building materials to a great range of people. We sell to folk that run small repair companies, larger home building companies, people in agriculture keeping their own farms and buildings in good condition and everything [...]
Delivery and Returns
Online orders may only be delivered to UK mainland addresses. Should you be looking to have your items delivered to anywhere other than the UK Mainland, please contact us for costings and timescales. All of our courier charges are charged at cost. A typical mainland courier charge is £40 for the long lengths of gutter, and £5 [...]
Delivery timescales running up to Christmas
We run with a really good courier service when we aren't delivering ourselves, but at this time of year when the courier networks are flooded due to Christmas deadlines and the upsurge in parcels from 'Black Friday', there can be delays.That is across all of the delivery services, unfortunately there is nothing that we can [...]
Cast iron effect soil and waste pipe
As all of our customers know, our range is kept tight. We don't get involved with overcomplications of what should be a really simple product line.But we do get asked about cast effect soil pipe for homes where the cast effect gutter and rainwater system has already been installed, or is going to be fitted, [...]
Here's to 2024!
We hope all our past customers enjoyed a lovely festive break, and have settled well into 2024.We have been busy over the past few weeks, working with our suppliers of the raw materials to make sure that our cast iron effect gutter and downpipe can remain within the same price range that we have always [...]
Dear Customers Requiring Delivery to the Most Southern end of England
We are currently experiencing delays/problems getting parcels to Devon and other counties in the most southern parts of England, due to volume of parcels within the courier networks.If you can order your gutter in 2m lengths instead of 4m lengths - ParcelForce are still doing a very good job with their deliveries to all UK [...]
Lead times for cast iron effect gutter deliveries April 2021 UK
We have very good stock here of all profiles of cast iron effect gutter and downpipe, and are always able to despatch our orders within a maximum of 2 working days.However, the couriers are still extremely busy with more people having goods sent around the country, and sometimes their 48 hour service takes 72 hours. So, [...]
Ordering your cast iron efect gutter and downpipe as of 20/05/2020
We have pulled together here, and are now able to supply the whole range within good lead times. We ask that our customers allow 7 working days for delivery, but are frequently getting orders to people within 4 working days. We are also able to offer shoppers a pick up service. We do ask that we [...]
​Shopping with us during the current pandemic
Shopping with us during the current pandemicDue to high demand, and system lags - we ask that our online customers send their shopping list via email to gemma@edgebuildingsupplies.com and await stock conformation prior to placing an order. We apologise for this inconvenience, but it will help us no end. We will reply on the same [...]