Gutter CleaningIn Greater Vancouver
Every run cleared by hand, every downspout flushed, and the water watched all the way out of the system before we pack up.
Our Service
It Isn't Debris. It's Drainage.
A gutter is a drainage system that happens to be full of leaves, and the leaves are not the problem — the water that stops moving is. Once a run fills, the overflow goes over the front lip: onto the fascia, behind the siding, and eventually against the foundation. We clear by hand, bag everything off the property, flush and auger every downspout, then run water each length and watch it leave.
What's Included
Every run cleared by hand
Needles, leaf mould, shingle grit and the compacted layer underneath, all lifted out by hand along the full length of each run — including the awkward sections behind a dormer that a quick job quietly skips. Hand clearing is slower than blowing it out, and it is the only method that empties the channel rather than moving it.
Downspouts flushed and augered
A clear gutter feeding a blocked spout is still a blocked system. Every downspout is flushed from the top and, where the water backs up, augered until it runs free — elbows and offsets first, since that is where the plug sits. Where a leader runs underground and has a clean-out, we check that it takes water too.
Debris bagged and taken away
Everything that comes out of the gutters goes into bags and onto the truck. It is not raked into a bed, tipped behind the shed or left by the driveway for you — partly because that is not a finished job, and partly because debris tipped under the eaves is back in the gutter within two seasons.
A flow test on every outlet
The step that turns a clear-out into a working system. Water is run into each run and watched the whole way: along the gutter, down the spout and out at the bottom. It shows up what a visual check cannot — a run pitched the wrong way holding water, a joint weeping behind a bracket, a spout draining slowly.
Fascia, bracket and joint check
While the run is empty and we are on it, the hardware gets looked at: brackets pulling out, spikes backing off, joints and end caps weeping, sections sagging out of pitch, and the fascia behind them. You get photographs and a straight answer about whether it needs doing now or needs watching. No pressure to book.
Gutter guards lifted, cleaned and refitted
Guards reduce what gets into a gutter; they do not stop it, and the fine grit that gets through has nowhere to go. Mesh and screen sections are lifted, the channel underneath cleared, the guard washed off and refitted properly seated. Where a guard has become the reason a run keeps blocking, we tell you.
Why Choose RainCity?
Gutter work is ladder work, and ladder work is where an uninsured contractor stops being their own problem and becomes yours. We are licensed and insured for it, and the certificate goes to a strata manager the same day it is asked for. Past that the arrangement is straightforward: we look at the roofline, we tell you the price, and the price does not move afterwards. If a downspout is still running slow a week later, we come back and finish it.
Get a Free QuoteLicensed and insured, certificates sent on request
A New Westminster company, working region-wide
Detached homes, townhouse complexes and commercial rooflines
Free quotes, priced on the roofline in front of us
Still not draining? We come back and clear it
What to Expect
What This Work Looks Like
Example photographs of this kind of work, not RainCity jobs. Photos from our own projects on this service are being added.
How It Works
Our Simple Three-Step Process
Request a Free Quote
Call or send the form. We take the details, and price the property in front of us rather than reading off a rate card.
We Schedule & Arrive
We book a slot that suits you and turn up in it, with everything the job needs already on the truck.
Enjoy the Results
We walk the finished work with you before we leave, and put right anything that isn't up to standard.
Where We Work
This Work, Across Greater Vancouver
Everything comes off the truck — water, pressure, detergent and power — so the kit that reaches a strata lot in Surrey is the one that reaches an acreage in Anmore. Pick your community and the page will tell you what the work looks like there.
Anmore
Large treed lots above Port Moody, where the gutters fill with needles long before the leaves start.
Burnaby
Towers, townhouse complexes and single-family streets — a good deal of our strata common-area work sits here.
Delta
Ladner, Tsawwassen and North Delta: flat, open and close to the water, which is hard on painted siding.
Langley
The Township and the City both. Bigger lots, longer driveways, and surfaces that take a full season of weather.
New Westminster
Home. Heritage houses on the hill and a steep grid of streets — we know which ones the truck can park on.
Ridge Meadow
Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows, out where the rain sits longest and a north-facing roof greens over fastest.
Surrey
The largest area we cover, Cloverdale down to South Surrey, and no shortage of commercial ground to keep sealed.
Tri-Cities
Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam and Port Moody. Hillside subdivisions, and hard surfaces that want the moss off every spring.
Vancouver
Character houses, laneways and mid-rise strata. Access is tight, so the water-fed pole earns its keep.
Often Booked Together
While We Are Already There
These are the jobs that go with this one, and the reason is nearly always the setup: the ladder, the truck or the dried surface is already where it needs to be. Worth knowing before a second visit is booked for something the first one was already set up for.
Request a Free Quote
Tell us what needs doing and we’ll come back with a price. Prefer to talk? +1 604 209 3357.
Based in New Westminster, serving Greater Vancouver.
Common Questions
Questions We Get Asked
The things people actually ask before booking, answered the way we would answer them on the phone. If yours is not here, call — you will get a straight answer from someone who does the work.
Twice a year for most properties here: once in late autumn after the deciduous leaves are down, and once in spring to clear the needles, buds and blossom that come after them. A house under mature conifers — which is a great many of them in this region — often needs three or four visits, because cedar and fir shed all year rather than in one go. Anything with no overhanging trees can usually manage annually.
No. It is all outside work and it needs access to the perimeter rather than to the house, so gates left unlocked and vehicles moved off the driveway are the only things we usually ask for. You get photographs of anything found on the fascia or the hardware whether you were there or not, so nothing is reported second-hand.
We flush and auger the downspout itself as part of the job, and where there is an accessible clean-out at the base we check that the underground leader takes water. If the blockage is further along the buried line, that is drainage work rather than gutter cleaning — a different trade and a different piece of equipment — and we will tell you what we found rather than charge for repeated attempts at it.
Yes, though usually less often. Guards keep leaves and larger debris out and let fine material through: shingle grit, seed, needles and the sediment that settles into a paste in the bottom of the channel. That builds up steadily and is invisible from the ground, so guarded gutters tend to be neglected until they overflow. Annual clearing with the guards lifted is normally enough.
We handle the small things that come up on the day — resecuring a bracket, resealing a joint, refitting an end cap or a length of guard — and those are usually part of the visit. Full replacement of a run, re-pitching a system or renewing rotten fascia is a bigger job with its own quote. Either way you see photographs of what was found before anything is decided.
From ladders in most cases, properly footed and standoff-braced so nothing rests on the gutter itself — a ladder leant against a full gutter is how a run gets bent. Where the pitch and the access make it safer, we work from the roof instead. On multi-storey and commercial buildings the method is agreed with the property manager before the day rather than decided on it.