Gutter Cleaning in London
Blocked gutters don’t announce themselves until water is running down the inside of a wall.
Cleared, checked and re-aligned, because damp bills are the expensive version of this invoice.
Gutter cleaning & downpipes in London: what the price includes
- Cleared and flushed. Gutters emptied, downpipes rodded or flushed to the gully, gully grid cleared while we’re there.
- Alignment and joints. Sagging brackets and weeping unions fixed, a clean gutter that still overflows was never just dirty.
- Downpipe blockages. The blockage is at the top bend or the shoe nine times out of ten; both reachable, both quick.
- Before-and-after photos. Roofline work you can’t see gets photographed, you shouldn’t pay for what you can’t verify.
- Reached safely, and from the right equipment. Most domestic guttering is done from a pole-mounted vacuum with a camera on the end, so nobody is on a ladder over your flowerbed. Where access genuinely requires a tower or a roof anchor we say so and price it rather than improvising on the day.
Local conditions we work around
Guttering matters more on London’s older housing than people assume, because so much of it discharges into the same combined system that carries foul water. Blocked or broken downpipes send water down a wall instead, and on a Victorian terrace that shows up as internal damp long before anyone looks up. Conservation-area properties often have cast-iron guttering that needs proper repair rather than plastic replacement, and access over neighbouring roofs frequently needs arranging in advance.
Areas we cover
Wherever you are in the list below, the price is the same. Open your area for what tends to go wrong there.
Questions people ask
How often should gutters be cleared?
Yearly after leaf-fall for most houses; twice yearly under big trees.
Water pours over one spot, blocked?
Either a blockage just past it or a sagged bracket pooling water. Both show in the photos, both fixable on the visit.
Do you do whole terraces or blocks?
Yes, shared rooflines priced per elevation, and neighbours splitting a visit is the cheap way to do it. Landlords: see commercial for scheduled roofline maintenance.
Is it really a plumbing job?
It is a rainwater job, and rainwater that misses the gutter ends up in the wall, then inside. We treat guttering as the top of the drainage system, which is why we clear the downpipe and the gully at the bottom on the same visit rather than stopping at the roofline.
Are gutter guards worth fitting?
Under heavy tree cover, yes, they turn an annual job into a three-yearly one. Under open sky they mostly trap moss and make the eventual clean harder. It depends entirely on what is above your roof.
My gutter leaks at a joint.
A perished union seal or a bracket that has dropped so water pools at the joint rather than running past it. Both are inexpensive to correct while the access equipment is already there, which is why we photograph and quote on the same visit.