Gutter Guard Installation
Vancouver & Surrey
SKIP THE YEARLY CLEAN.

It's priced by the foot, at about $6.50 to $9 a foot installed, with clearing out the gutters first included. A typical two-storey house here has 140 to 180 feet of gutter, so most installs land around $900 to $1,650. The estimator on this page gives a range for your house in about twenty seconds, and the firm price comes from your address.

On the right house, yes. If a fir, cedar or pine hangs over the roof and you're cleaning gutters two or three times a year, our guards cut that to a clean every few years and stop the overflow in between. If there are few trees and one clean a year keeps up, guards cost more than they save, so book the clean instead. Most people buy guards to get off the ladder and stop worrying every time it pours.

It depends on the hole size. Standard screens have holes big enough for needles to drop through and stand up in, and then they catch everything else. Foam and brush inserts trap needles inside the gutter. The guards we install have small holes that keep most needles out. They sit on top and dry out, and the odd one that gets through is why it's a clean every few years rather than never.

Less, not never. With our guards, a house under trees usually needs a clean every few years instead of two or three times a year. Anyone promising you will never touch your gutters again is overselling. What changes is that you are no longer scooping out a packed gutter every autumn and spring.

Our small-hole guards drain well in Lower Mainland downpours as long as the top isn't matted over. Reverse-curve hood guards are the type that can overshoot: in a hard downpour the water runs past the lip instead of turning into the gutter. If your gutters overflow now, a blocked downspout or a gutter pitched the wrong way is the more likely cause, and a guard will not fix either. We check both before we install.

Some guards are designed to slide under the first row of shingles, and lifting or fastening through shingles can put a shingle warranty in question. Ours fasten to the gutter itself, not under the roofing, so the shingles are not touched. If your roof is new, tell us the brand when you call.

For most houses here, a small-hole guard. It keeps leaves and most needles out, drains well and cuts cleaning to every few years. Micro-mesh stops even more, but it costs more, takes longer to fit, and its fine mesh needs brushing off about once a year under conifers, so we don't offer it. Standard large-hole screens are fine for maples but let needles through. Foam and brush inserts hold needles and moss and break down within a few winters in our climate.

Usually, yes. Standard 5-inch and 6-inch aluminum gutters, the kind on most houses here, both take them. The gutters have to be sound, though. If they sag, leak at the seams or hold standing water, we tell you before we quote, because a guard on a failing gutter is money wasted. Half-round and older steel gutters need a look first.

A guard fastened to the gutter lasts for many years. Foam inserts last a few winters in our climate before they break down, and plastic snap-in screens go brittle in the sun. How long installation takes depends on the house, but most homes are done in a single visit, clean included.

No. LeafFilter is a micro-mesh guard sold by a national company that prices through an in-home appointment and does not publish its rates. We install small-hole guards and we are a local crew based in Surrey. You get a price range on this page and a firm quote from your address, usually without a site visit.

You can, and on a single-storey house with good gutters it is a reasonable weekend job. Three things trip people up. The gutters have to be completely cleaned out first. A lot of the cheap snap-in screens have holes big enough for fir needles. And cutting and fastening around corners, joins and downspouts is where DIY installs leak or lift. On a two-storey house it is also a lot of time on a ladder. Get our quote and compare.

No. Ice dams come from heat escaping through the roof and melting snow that refreezes at the cold eave. That is an attic insulation problem, not a guard problem, and ice dams are less common on the coast than inland. The real winter concern here is wet, heavy snow sitting on the gutter. Guards fastened to the gutter carry it, while plastic snap-in guards can crush or pop out.

Vancouver, North Vancouver, West Vancouver, Burnaby, New Westminster, Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Surrey, White Rock, Delta and Langley. We are based on 138 Street in Surrey, so Surrey and White Rock installs are a short drive.