New Guttering from NZ Pipe

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Rushmere

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#312736 13-May-2024 16:33

Has anyone fitted guttering supplied by NZ Pipe (nzpipe.co.nz in Otahuhu)?

I'm replacing all of the guttering on my villa, and Marley products seem hideously expensive. The equivalent products from NZ Pipe would be about one third of the cost.

I'd be interested to hear if anyone can vouch for the quality and how well it lasts.

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#3229858 13-May-2024 16:46

Hmm, after viewing your post I'm getting served Marley guttering ads all over GZ :)

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#3229859 13-May-2024 16:51

no idea at all. however i would ask what the flow rates are for it. you need to know that for the design of the system.

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#3229909 13-May-2024 18:34

I can't speak for the quality of the other parties guttering, but at least when it comes to some Marley products (Conduit in my case), other brand products work fine and are substantially cheaper.

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#3229915 13-May-2024 19:07

I installed the white guttering from NZ Pipe a couple of years ago. I don't know the exact date because we just went to the store and purchased it and I don't have an electronic record, but it still looks good today and I recall it was very easy to install.

Rushmere

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#3230138 14-May-2024 10:53

Thanks for the replies.

Given that Marley guttering would cost about three times as much, I'm going to give the guttering from NZ Pipe a go.

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#3230222 14-May-2024 11:47

Rushmere:

Thanks for the replies.

Given that Marley guttering would cost about three times as much, I'm going to give the guttering from NZ Pipe a go.

Please report back on how it goes!

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#3230320 14-May-2024 14:48

Look like i only comes in that single profile design which will only suit some house designs. They don't seem to do a stormcloud alternative. It looks like it is also a two layer design. Does that make it lighter to work with and is it as strong? I am pretty sure when doing some work on marley stuff it was solid. I do know that marley can last decades without issue based on gutters on on our old house.

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#3230487 14-May-2024 19:00

Rushmere: I'm replacing all of the guttering on my villa, and Marley products seem hideously expensive.

This issue is so well known that it has its own name, "the Marley tax". Take any product you like and you'll pay $x for it. Now peel off the label and stick one that says "Marley" on it and the cost is between three and around ten times what it was before. It makes a huge difference for the sort of stuff Marley sell where you're typically using a box full of whatever on a job, when everyone but Marley charges $6 a unit and Marley charges $40 for the same thing then you go from $50, a line item, to $300, a long explanation for why eight bits of plastic run to that amount.

I have no idea how that company stays in business. One hypothesis for why no NZ electrical trade supplier will give you prices unless you have an account with them and sign in (compare this to AU where everyone has their prices online) is that since a lot of them carry Marley stock it'd scare away customers if they could see what they're going to be charged.

However a tradie friend has a different explanation, their billing system is so bad that it's impossible to tell up-front what you're going to be charged, and even when you've got the invoice you still need to go through it item by item to find the ones where you've been charged the wrong amount and complain to them to get it fixed.

As I said, I have no idea how that company is still in business.