Gutter Cleaning Cost UK: What Three Price Guides Publish

MyBuilder puts most UK gutter cleaning jobs at roughly £50 to £150, and Checkatrade puts a medium semi-detached with 15 metres of gutter at £100 to £150 plus VAT. MyJobQuote gives an average of £125 with a typical range of £75 to £200. Height, access and whether scaffolding is needed move the figure more than anything else. That is the short answer. Below is what each guide publishes, where they disagree, and what a quote should tell you before you accept it.

How much does gutter cleaning cost by house type?

Three national price guides publish gutter cleaning bands: Checkatrade, MyJobQuote and MyBuilder. Checkatrade prices the job by house type with the gutter run stated, in a guide last updated May 2026. Its table is headed "Average cost +VAT", so every figure below sits before VAT.

• Small terraced house, 5 metres of gutter: £50 to £120 plus VAT.
• Medium semi-detached, 15 metres: £100 to £150 plus VAT.
• Detached four-bedroom, 20 metres: £130 to £165 plus VAT.
• Three-storey townhouse cleaned with a gutter vacuum, 15 metres: £165 to £300 plus VAT.
• Complex clean needing scaffolding or a cherry picker: quote required, with no figure published.
• By time rather than by house: £20 to £30 an hour, or £150 to £250 a day.

MyJobQuote prices by property type in single averages rather than ranges. Its headline average across the lot is £125, with a typical range of £75 to £200, and it says larger or more complex properties could potentially reach as much as £450.

• Flat or apartment: £60.
• Bungalow: £70.
• Terraced house: £75.
• End-of-terrace: £90.
• Semi-detached: £100.
• Detached: £150.
• Three-storey house: £180.

MyBuilder prices by service type rather than by house type.

• Standard clean: £50 to £150.
• Larger or harder-to-reach jobs: £150 to £425 and above.
• Gutter inspection on its own: £20 to £50.
• Advanced cleaning using vacuum systems: £100 to £300.

So on an ordinary two-storey house the three land close together. Checkatrade gives £50 to £120 for a small terrace and £100 to £150 for a medium semi, both plus VAT. MyBuilder gives £50 to £150 for a standard clean. MyJobQuote gives £75 for a terrace and £100 for a semi. Which? publishes no gutter cleaning prices at all: its gutter article is advice from Lee Wiltshire, company director at London Gutter Clean Ltd, a Which? Trusted Trader, and carries no figures. Those are national market ranges published by other people, not our prices. Our quotes are free and carry no obligation. Our gutter clearing page covers what the job itself involves.

Is there a price per metre for gutter cleaning?

Two of the three publish one. MyJobQuote gives £5 to £10 per metre, with its own caveat that this varies with the height and accessibility of the property. MyBuilder gives £4 to £12 per metre. Checkatrade publishes no per-metre rate and restates its job bands against gutter length instead: around £50 to £120 plus VAT for five metres, £100 to £150 plus VAT for fifteen, and £130 to £165 plus VAT for twenty. There is no price per square metre for this job, because gutters are measured in linear metres.

How much does gutter cleaning cost for a three-storey house?

Checkatrade publishes two different three-storey figures on the same page. Its price table gives a three-storey townhouse with 15 metres of gutter, cleaned using a gutter vacuum, at £165 to £300 plus VAT. Further down the same page, its section on property types says a three-storey house is roughly £130 to £165. We will not average those, because an average of two contradictory numbers is a figure nobody published. MyJobQuote puts a three-storey house at £180.

Does gutter cleaning need scaffolding, and what does that add?

Nothing else here moves a quote like access equipment. MyJobQuote publishes separate bands for scaffolded jobs, stating they include the scaffolding being erected and dismantled: a terraced house at £375, a semi-detached at £400 and a detached at £425. Set those beside its unscaffolded figures and the terraced house goes from £75 to £375, the semi from £100 to £400, and the detached from £150 to £425. MyBuilder treats it as a line rather than a different job, pricing scaffolding where required at £100 to £300 on top.

Checkatrade sits between the two, putting basic access equipment or scaffolding inside the quote but extra scaffolding or access equipment on top of it. Its rule of thumb is that guttering higher than three metres off the ground will need scaffolding, which it ties to Health and Safety Executive guidelines for working at height. The HSE itself says ladders and stepladders are for light work of short duration, a maximum of thirty minutes at a time. In practice most two-storey houses are cleared from a ladder or a pole-fed vacuum. MyJobQuote names the usual trigger plainly, a conservatory, extension or difficult layout blocking safe access.

What else changes the price?

• Length of guttering: Checkatrade prices five, fifteen and twenty metres separately and says the larger the home, and therefore the guttering, the higher the cost.
• Height: Checkatrade puts it simply, the higher up your guttering system, the higher the cost of cleaning.
• Method: MyJobQuote splits manual clearing, simple and low-cost where access is easy, from a pole-operated gutter vacuum used where a property is harder to reach. MyBuilder prices vacuum systems at £100 to £300 against £50 to £150 for a standard clean.
• How badly blocked it is: MyJobQuote says heavily blocked gutters take longer to clear, potentially increasing labour fees, and MyBuilder names moss or debris. Checkatrade does not name soiling as a driver at all.
• Roof type: MyJobQuote is the only one to say the price varies with a hip roof against a gable end roof.
• Travel: MyBuilder is the only one to price it, listing out-of-area surcharges that may add £25 to £50.

Region is the nearest thing to a local number in any of this, and it is still their number. MyJobQuote gives South East England at £110 to £160, MyBuilder gives South East England at £70 to £130, and Checkatrade publishes no regional figure for this job at all. The two South East bands overlap only between £110 and £130, so the same region reads as a £70 job on one guide and a £160 job on the other. No national source publishes a county-level figure for Surrey, Sussex or Kent: the finest regional cut any of them publishes is South East England.

Frequency is the driver none of them price, and the one you control: a gutter cleared yearly is a shorter job than one left for years. Our guide to how often gutters should be cleaned goes through the published guidance.

What is included in a gutter cleaning quote?

This is where quotes stop being comparable, because the three do not agree on what a gutter clean includes. Checkatrade says your quote will usually include labour, cleaning products and materials, basic access equipment or scaffolding, an initial inspection and disposal. It then lists what you may pay extra for: gutter repairs, extra scaffolding, cleaning roof valleys, clearing the downpipe and cleaning the outside of the guttering. It prices one add-on, new down-pipe filters at £10 to £20 including installation.

MyJobQuote takes the opposite line on downpipes, saying a standard clean usually involves clearing the gutters and flushing the downpipes to check water drains away freely, and that badly blocked downpipes needing rodding or dismantling may be charged extra. On disposal it makes no promise and tells you to ask for an itemised quote. MyBuilder prices disposal outright, at £10 to £30 for heavily blocked gutters. One says disposal is included, one says ask, one charges for it.

VAT is the other place quotes stop being comparable. Checkatrade heads its table "Average cost +VAT", so its bands come before VAT. MyBuilder publishes no VAT statement on its gutter cleaning page at all, so its bands cannot be compared like for like with Checkatrade's. MyJobQuote says many gutter cleaners are sole traders who are not VAT-registered, so the price they quote is the final amount, while larger VAT-registered firms usually add twenty per cent, turning a £100 quote into £120.

Cleaning the outside of the gutters, fascias and soffits is a different job from clearing the inside out, and two of the three price it. MyBuilder puts fascia and soffit cleaning at £40 to £100. MyJobQuote says some tradespeople include a quick wipe-down within a gutter quote while others treat a fuller clean as an add-on, typically around £40 to £80 on top. Checkatrade lists cleaning the outside of the guttering as a possible extra but publishes no figure for it.

A lot of the money on those pages is not cleaning at all. MyJobQuote prices repairing guttering at around £215 and replacing it at around £650, and MyBuilder prices minor gutter repairs at £30 to £100. That is other people's work, not ours. We clear gutters and downpipes. We do not repair, replace, re-hang or re-seal guttering, and we do not fit or remove gutter guards.

How can you tell whether the quote you have is fair?

A price on its own tells you little here, because MyJobQuote puts a terraced house at £75 and the same terraced house with scaffolding at £375. The test is whether the quote answers the questions that produce that difference. Ask whether the downpipes are included or only the gutters: MyJobQuote treats flushing them as part of a standard clean, Checkatrade lists clearing the downpipe as a possible extra, and a clear gutter feeding a blocked downpipe still overflows.

Ask whether the debris is taken away: Checkatrade says disposal is usually included, MyBuilder prices it at £10 to £30 on heavily blocked gutters, MyJobQuote tells you to ask. Ask whether any part of the house needs scaffolding, because that is the gap between MyJobQuote's £75 terrace and its £375 scaffolded terrace. And ask whether the price is for the whole run or the front only.

Two more tests, and both cut against selling you a clean. Ask whether the quote says the gutter needs repairing before it is cleaned, because clearing does not fix a gutter that has dropped out of fall, split or worked loose, and a cheap clean on a broken gutter is money wasted until the repair is done. Then ask whether the cleaner intends to put a pressure washer on the guttering, because Which? reports that leading manufacturers such as Karcher advise against using a pressure washer while standing on a ladder, and that a high-pressure burst of water could damage guttering and roof materials. That is a pressure washing company passing on advice against pressure washing, and it is still right.

If moss on the tiles above keeps filling the gutter, the gutter is the symptom rather than the cause, and our roof cleaning page covers that side of it. We quote gutter clearing across Surrey, Sussex and Kent, from Horley out to Crawley, Reigate and East Grinstead. Tell us the number of storeys and whether a conservatory or extension is in the way when you ask for a quote.