Gutter Cleaning Services

If you choose to do it yourself, you’ll need to really keep safety as a priority. Many accidents occur from gutter cleaning in Pacific Northwest every year because of ladder work. Whether ladders aren’t properly set up, or perhaps a harness is needed for those second storey gutters, any time you are doing work higher than 6 feet off of the ground you are putting yourself at great risk. Although we encourage our community to be active and try the work themselves, we also strongly encourage you to trust the professionals to do any work at height, especially gutter cleaning.

If you have training with ladders, you can try your own gutter cleaning. There are several methods you can use that we use in Pacific Northwest, and it all depends on your comfortability, equipment, and bucket. You’ll of course need a ladder tall enough to reach your gutters, but aside from that, the most basic things you will need are some heavy duty gloves, a garden trowel or gutter scooper, and a bucket. To clean it by hand, you’ll want to slowly use the trowel to slowly scoop out the debris and dump it into your bucket. When you’ve scooped out as much as you can, you’ll want to go to the furthest point away from the downspout with a hose and wash away whatever lingering debris you can.

In Pacific Northwest, some other methods we use for gutter cleaning include using a leaf blower, a wet/shop vacuum, and power washer or garden hose. If you have the right tools for these methods, you can go ahead and try them. However, the risk from these methods is much higher than by hand. To use the blower, you might find yourself hanging onto the ladder while operating this power tool, or perhaps you need to get fully onto the roof to set up the shop vacuum. While these methods are quicker and more effective than hand cleaning, these methods are also far more dangerous.

Of all the maintenance tasks that should surely make your list, gutter cleaning is important, especially here in Pacific Northwest where the organic debris is constantly falling from our plentiful trees. The structural damage to both your roof and foundation that can be caused by clogged drains and broken gutters is far too great a risk to leave this task by the side. Yet gutter cleaning is a daunting task to do by yourself. Even the first floor gutter is high enough off of the ground for there to be a safety risk. Using power equipment may speed the entire process up, but it also increases the risk, but hand cleaning your gutters could take days if you’re inexperienced. Because of this, we would highly recommend looking into professional service providers in Pacific Northwest.

Our Jim’s family here in Pacific Northwest will ensure that your gutters are cleaned and ready to protect your home from the structural damage water can cause. Our professionals are trained with the collective knowledge of over 50 franchisees across Pacific Northwest. We can determine the best method, whether by hand, the leaf blower, wet vacuum or pressure washer, and we will know how to do it safely so that no accidents happen at your home. When we do a gutter cleaning, we do the job right so that you can enjoy more free time and a healthy home!