Gutter Cleaning & Clearing in London

Once a year suits most London properties, and autumn is the sensible time once the leaves are down. If you have trees close to the house, or a shallow-pitch roof that holds moss, twice a year is more realistic. Flats and blocks with box gutters or internal outlets usually need looking at more often than a standard semi, because there is less margin before an overflow goes somewhere it shouldn't.

The usual signs are water running over the front edge in heavy rain, a stripe of green or black staining down the wall below a joint, plants growing out of the gutter, or a downpipe that stays silent while it is pouring. Damp appearing on an upstairs internal wall is often a gutter problem rather than a roof one, and it is worth ruling out the cheap cause first.

Yes. It comes with us. Scraping a gutter out and leaving the contents in the flower bed is not a finished job, and wet gutter debris is heavier and messier than people expect.

Yes, and we would rather you asked. Gutter work is easy to half-do because nobody on the ground can see it, so we take photos of the inside of the run before and after. If something needs a repair rather than a clean, a cracked joint or a length of gutter that has dropped, you get a photo of that too and an honest word on it. We clean gutters, we do not fit them, so if it needs replacing we will say so rather than sell you a wash.

That is usually the most sensible way to book it, and it works out cheaper than separate visits. The order matters: gutters and fascias first, then the walls, then the glass, because anything else means cleaning the windows twice. If you want the whole exterior sorted in one go, ask for a quote on the lot and we will price it as one job.