Gutter Cleaning in San Francisco and the Peninsula

What a gutter visit covers

Full clear and bag-out, downspouts flushed until they run free, and a working check of the system: slope, hangers, seams, and the drip edge. Minor repairs happen on the spot — re-seating hangers, sealing seams, re-strapping a downspout. Under the Peninsula’s mature oaks and eucalyptus this is twice-a-year work, and we’ll tell you honestly which your trees demand.

While we’re at the roof edge we look at the wood behind the gutter — fascia and rafter tails hold moisture where debris sits, and catching soft wood there is vastly cheaper than finding it later.

How we approach it

We pull debris out by hand and bag it rather than blowing it down the wall, then flush each run from the far end toward the downspout so we can watch the water actually move. Every downspout gets tested until it runs clear at the bottom — a gutter that’s clean but drains slow still overflows in a real storm. We check that the drip edge sends water into the trough instead of behind it, and re-seat the hangers that have pulled loose so the slope still carries to the outlets.

When to book it

The honest window is before the first real storms, so the system is clear the first time it’s asked to work. Homes under heavy tree cover usually want a second clearing partway through the wet season, once the leaves have finished dropping — we’ll say plainly whether yours is a once- or twice-a-year house.

Commonly paired with: dry rot repair — the fascia and rafter tails a working gutter protects — and siding repair when the water has already found the wall.