Premium Gutter Cleaning in Mission Hills

Mission Hills is the north Valley neighborhood around the San Fernando Mission, with the 405 on its west edge, the 5 wrapping the north and east, and the 118 cutting across it. Most of the housing is 1950s and 1960s single-story stucco ranch homes on flat lots with composition shingle roofs, along with a share of two-story additions and a few newer infill tracts. The blocks are straight, the lots are modest and the gutter runs are short, which sounds easy until the downspouts clog.

The three freeways and the open ground around them make this a dusty part of the Valley. Dry-season dust, tire grit and roof granules settle into the gutters through summer and fall, and then the street trees add to it: pepper trees drop berries and fine leaves, ficus sheds year-round, fan palms drop fibers and jacarandas dump blossoms and pods in early summer. Santa Ana winds come through the Newhall Pass just to the north and push all of it into the downspout bends. By the time the first storm hits, a gutter that looked fine from the driveway is packed solid, and the water goes over the edge onto the stucco and pools along the slab.

For Mission Hills we recommend two cleanings a year, late spring and late fall, and three under mature street trees.