Gutter cleaning & roof maintenance · Greater Victoria
Gutters cleared across Greater Victoria, roof checked at the same time.
A gutter clean by a roofing company, with photos of anything on the roof worth knowing about.
Now booking. Tell us about your roof and we’ll email you a time.
Victoria, Saanich, Oak Bay, Esquimalt, Langford, Colwood, Sooke and Sidney.
Different trees, different problem
Victoria gets roughly 705 mm of rain a year, the least on this part of the coast. That does not mean the gutters stay clear — it means the debris sits in them dry for months and then everything arrives at once in the autumn.
The Nanaimo gutter problem is conifer needles packing down into a wet mat all winter. Greater Victoria is a broadleaf city in a lot of its older neighbourhoods — Garry oak, maple, chestnut, arbutus — and that is a different kind of blockage.
Leaves do not pack the way needles do. They bridge. A gutter can look half empty and still have a plug sitting over the outlet, and because the rain arrives in concentrated autumn bursts here rather than as months of drizzle, the first real storm is when you find out.
What the job includes
Gutters cleared by hand
Debris taken out and bagged rather than blown across the garden or onto the roof below.
Downpipes and outlets flushed
On a leaf-heavy property the plug is almost always at the outlet. Clearing the trough and leaving that blocked solves nothing.
A photo check of the roof
Flashings, penetrations, fasteners and the surface, with photos of anything worth knowing about.
Salt air makes the check worth more
A lot of Greater Victoria housing sits close to open water — Oak Bay, the Esquimalt waterfront, Sidney, out toward Sooke. Exposed fixings, cut edges and flashing laps age faster in that air than they do inland.
That is the sort of thing you want photographed early rather than discovered when it leaks. It is also why we would rather be the ones on the ladder twice a year.
Timing it for Victoria
The useful rhythm here is different from up-island. Late autumn is the important one, after the broadleaf drop has finished — doing it in October on a street of Garry oaks means doing it again in November.
A spring visit catches the seed and blossom drop and gives you the photo check before summer. We can set both up as a standing arrangement and email you before each one.
Roof cleaning is a separate question
Clearing gutters and dealing with moss on the roof surface are different jobs. Shaded north slopes in Saanich and Oak Bay grow moss readily despite the lower rainfall, because shade matters more than total rain.
Victoria gutter questions.
Tell us about your project and we’ll email you to book.
Send the address, roughly how many storeys, and what is overhanging the roof.