Nanaimo is hard on gutters. The city is full of Douglas fir, cedar, and arbutus, and our winters are about the wettest in the country. A house ringed by conifers can pack a gutter solid in a single season, and once it's full the next hard rain runs straight down the fascia instead of out the downspout.
Two-Storey Homes Under Heavy Tree Cover
A lot of Nanaimo's housing is two-storey, and plenty of it sits under mature trees — heaviest in the older neighbourhoods like Harewood and the Old City, lighter in the newer North Nanaimo subdivisions with their simpler rooflines. The wet climate adds one more wrinkle: moss starts growing right in the trough here, and it traps needles that would otherwise wash through.
What We Do on a Nanaimo Job
We hand-clear each run into buckets rather than dropping the mess into your beds, then run water through every downspout to prove it actually drains — that flushing step is what stops the overflow that rots fascia. While the ladder's up we wipe the gutter face, and every bit of debris leaves with us. Nothing gets raked into the lawn for you to deal with.
Honest Ladder Work
This is straightforward ladder work, and we describe it that way. We take single and two-storey Nanaimo homes we can reach safely from a ladder — not three-storey rooflines or anything that needs a lift or roof access. If your place is past that, we'll tell you rather than take a job we shouldn't.
Already booking a power wash? Adding the gutters to the same Nanaimo visit costs less than a separate trip. Our cost guide breaks down the pricing.