Gutter cleaning and repair inVancouver, BC

Twice a year for most Vancouver homes. The first pass is in late fall after deciduous leaf drop finishes, typically late November or early December, so the system is clear going into the wettest months. The second is in late winter before spring runoff, to clear what the storms deposited. If your property has cedar or fir overhead, we recommend three passes a year, because conifer needles drop continuously rather than seasonally and they are the debris that actually blocks downspouts. Devin will tell you honestly which schedule your property needs during the free assessment.

By hand, into buckets. Blowers are faster but they do a worse job in Metro Vancouver, because wet leaves and needles compact into a heavy sludge that a blower cannot lift and instead smears across the roof, the walls and your yard. Hand clearing gets the trough properly empty, and it lets us feel and see the condition of the gutter, hangers and seams as we work. That is how we catch a pulled hanger or a rusting section before it becomes a leak. All debris is bagged and hauled away with us.

Yes to both. Minor repairs are often handled during the same visit: resecuring loose hangers, correcting a sagging run that has lost its slope, sealing leaking seams, corners and end caps, and replacing damaged brackets. We also install new gutter systems when a run is genuinely past repair or when a home needs additional capacity. Installation is quoted separately from cleaning, and Devin gives you both numbers on site so you can decide what makes sense rather than being pushed into the bigger job.

Water backs up over the front edge and runs down the fascia board. In Vancouver, with rain from mid-October through April, that is months of continuous soaking on painted wood. The fascia rots, then the soffit behind it rots, and repairs to both cost several times what a cleaning does. Water pooling at the base of the wall also finds its way into basements and crawlspaces. On top of that, standing water at the roof edge keeps the bottom shingle courses damp, which is exactly the condition moss needs to establish.

No. Most of our gutter work is done with the homeowner out. We need access to the exterior of the property and to an outdoor water tap for the downspout flush. We send before and after photos of every run and the downspout flow test, so you get proof of the work without having to stand in the driveway. If we find something worth flagging, like starting fascia rot or a downspout discharging against the foundation, it goes in the report with photos and we follow up with you directly.

Yes, and we bring it up whenever we see it, because it is one of the most common causes of wet basements and crawlspaces across the Lower Mainland. The fix is usually simple: an extension, a splash block or a redirect that carries water several feet away from the foundation. We can also check whether an existing underground drain is accepting water or has failed. It is a small piece of work that prevents an expensive problem, and it gets quoted alongside the cleaning.