Gutter Cleaning in Turramurra

Most mornings on a Turramurra job start with a walk around the block before I touch a ladder. Turramurra sits up around 170 metres above sea level and the land tends to slope, so I'm checking where the water actually runs before I decide where to start. On a sloping block, water and leaf litter both pool at the low end, which is usually where the downpipe blocks first. I quote the job in person on the day, looking at roof pitch, tree cover and access, so what you're paying for matches what's actually on your roof.

By midday I'm usually working a bigger roofline than I would on a standard block elsewhere. Just over half of Turramurra homes have four or more bedrooms, and the suburb is still mostly separate houses rather than units. More bedrooms generally means more roof and more linear metres of gutter to clear, and that's consistently what I find on the job, not just a guess from the numbers.

Turramurra's canopy is part of the job too. Sheldon Forest sits on the edge of the suburb towards Pymble, and there are other stands of established gum and turpentine around the older blocks. If there's a branch overhanging a roof that genuinely needs cutting back, that's Ku-ring-gai Council's call, not mine — Council requires an application to prune or remove most trees on private land here, and even a hedge needs a permit if it's tall enough to count as a tree under the rules. I stick to what's on the roof and in the gutter.

Before I leave any job, I take photos of the gutters before I start and again once they're clear, so you've got a record of the actual condition and the actual work done.

Turramurra backs onto bushland in a few directions — Lane Cove National Park runs along the southern edge near South Turramurra, while North Turramurra feeds into Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park further up Bobbin Head Road. If your block backs onto any of that, gutters packed with dry leaf litter are one of the things the NSW RFS specifically flags for bushfire preparation.

I'll also mention, because it's genuinely relevant here: Turramurra has been recorded as Sydney's wettest suburb more than once by the Bureau of Meteorology. More rain through established tree cover means more leaf matter getting washed and blown into your gutters between cleans. I'd keep it general here too: somewhere between six months and a year, depending on the number and species of trees on the property, with jacarandas pushing that up.

I take invoice or cash on the day, whatever suits you, and I'm fully insured for every job.