Gutter Cleaning Pricing Calculator (UK): By Property Type, Ladder or Gutter Vac
Price a UK gutter clean by property type in pounds: terraced, semi, detached or bungalow, gutter vac or ladder, fascia and conservatory add-ons, and VAT.
How this is calculated
The clean is priced from your own costs, ex VAT, and margin is applied on price, the trade convention. VAT goes on afterwards when you are registered, because it is HMRC's money and never your margin. Price-list mode swaps the cost build-up for your own list price, then reports what margin that list price actually earns on this house.
labour = crew × (rate / 60) × minutes
travel = crew × (rate / 60) × travelMinutes
subtotal = labour + travel + disposal
overhead = subtotal × overheadPct
costBase = subtotal + overhead
from cost: base = costBase / (1 − targetMargin)
price list: base = yourPrice[type] + yourFasciaPrice + yourConservatoryPrice
perClean = max(base × (1 − planDiscount), minimum) ex VAT
VAT = perClean × 20% when registered
quote = perClean + VAT
perMetre = perClean / metres the cross-checkWorked example. A semi-detached house at the 16 m starting point, two storeys, gutter vac from the ground, clear access, normal debris and three downpipes: 65 suggested minutes. One person, a 15 minute round trip, 15% overhead and a 30% margin, at an example loaded rate of £42 an hour (picked so the arithmetic is easy to follow, not a rate to use). Labour is £45.50, travel £10.50, overhead takes the cost to £64.40, and at 30% margin the clean is £92.00, or £5.75 a metre. Not VAT registered, you quote £92.00. Registered, you quote £110.40 and still keep £92.00.
The suggested minutes. A starting point, never a benchmark. A clear single-storey run is modelled at 40 metres an hour for one person. Height slows the two methods differently: a ladder ×0.7 at two storeys and ×0.5 at three or more, a gutter vac ×0.8 and ×0.7, because the vac stays on the ground and only the poles get longer. Setup is 20 minutes for the vac and 15 for a ladder, plus access (awkward ×0.8, difficult ×0.6), debris (light ×1.15, heavy ×0.75) and 5 minutes a downpipe. A fascia and soffit clean adds the same run at 30 metres an hour; the conservatory adds 45 minutes. Capped at a working day.
The starting-point house sizes. Front and back gutters together: terraced 10 m with 2 downpipes, semi-detached 16 m with 3, detached 24 m with 4, all two storeys; a bungalow 30 m with 4, one storey, on the assumption that its gutters run all the way round. They are there so the price list has a shape before you have measured anything, not survey data. Overwrite the run with the house in front of you. The price list beside the result runs the formula above for each type at its starting-point size and suggested minutes, with this job's crew, method, access, debris, travel, overhead and margin.
Ladder or gutter vac. HSE says ladders "can be a sensible and practical option for low-risk, short-duration tasks, although they should not automatically be your first choice", and its first step before working at height is to "avoid work at height where it's reasonably practicable to do so". Picking a method here changes the minutes, not the safety question: that is your risk assessment.
VAT. GOV.UK puts the standard rate at 20%, and registration becomes compulsory once taxable turnover for the last 12 months goes over £90,000, or you expect it to go over £90,000 in the next 30 days. Below the threshold you can register voluntarily or not at all, so the same clean legitimately reaches a customer at two prices. The minimum charge applies before VAT, so what you keep does not move with your registration.
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UK gutter cleaning is sold by the house, not by the metre. A customer rings for a price on a semi and expects an answer on the call. This page builds that answer from your own costs: a price for the house in front of you, a price list for terraced, semi-detached, detached and bungalow, and a per-metre figure underneath both so you can see when a list price has quietly stopped covering a bigger house.
Every pound figure here is yours
There is no average UK gutter cleaning price on this page, and that is deliberate. The figures that come up for “gutter cleaning prices” are consumer cost guides and quote-matching sites setting a homeowner’s expectations, with no regulator, trade body or published survey underneath. Under this site’s cite-or-omit rule none of them ship here. Every price field starts empty or at zero and waits for yours. The only numbers the tool suggests are minutes and starting-point house sizes, both in boxes you overwrite, and the only rates it asserts are the 20% VAT standard rate and the £90,000 registration threshold, both from GOV.UK.
Price by property type, check by the metre
The four property types each start from a front-and-back gutter run: terraced 10 m, semi-detached 16 m and detached 24 m, all two storeys, and a bungalow 30 m at one storey, on the assumption that its gutters run all the way round. Those are there so the price list has a shape before you have measured anything. They are not survey data, and the run box is yours the moment you have paced the house.
Price from your cost and the minutes follow the metres, so a big semi costs what a big semi takes. Price from your list and the tool still measures: when the run is well over the starting point for its type, it flags it, and the table beside the result shows what margin each of your list prices earns at each size. A list that works on a mid-terrace and loses money on a bungalow is an easy fault to miss, and that table is where it shows up.
Gutter vac or ladder
The method is an input because it changes the minutes. HSE’s guidance is that ladders “can be a sensible and practical option for low-risk, short-duration tasks, although they should not automatically be your first choice”, and its first step before any work at height is to “avoid work at height where it’s reasonably practicable to do so”. A gutter vac, worked from the ground with poles and a camera, is one way to follow that.
The time model reflects the difference without pretending to settle the safety question. A ladder is reset and climbed every few metres, so it slows to 0.7 of its single-storey rate at two storeys and 0.5 at three. A vac slows only as the poles get longer, to 0.8 and 0.7, but takes 20 minutes to set up against 15 for a ladder. In this model the two come out close on a two-storey semi, and the vac pulls ahead on a three-storey townhouse. Which one a given house needs is your risk assessment.
Fascia, soffit and the conservatory
The add-ons customers ask for once you are there are fascia and soffit cleaning and the conservatory. Pricing from cost, fascia and soffit adds a wash over the same run at a starting point of 30 metres an hour, and the conservatory gutters and roof add 45 minutes. Pricing from your list, your own add-on prices go on top of the list price for the type, and an add-on ticked with no price is flagged rather than given away.
VAT: two legitimate prices for the same clean
GOV.UK sets the standard rate at 20% and makes registration compulsory once your total taxable turnover for the last 12 months goes over £90,000, or you expect it to go over £90,000 in the next 30 days. Below the threshold you can register voluntarily or stay unregistered, which is why two operators can quote the same semi 20% apart and both be right. The tool shows the clean with and without VAT, measures your margin on the ex-VAT price, and applies the minimum charge before VAT so what you keep does not move with your registration.
The winter rush comes after the leaves
Gutters fill when the leaves come down, and the calls follow the first heavy rain that finds a blocked outlet. That makes late autumn and winter the busy end of the year, and it is the reason the twice-a-year booking exists: one clean after leaf fall and one in spring, priced as a pair with your own discount for taking both slots. A customer on that plan is worth putting on paper with the UK service contract template, so the second visit is booked rather than hoped for.
Where the number goes next
Turn the price into something the customer can say yes to with the UK quotation template, which carries the VAT line the same way this page does. If you jet wash drives off the same van, the UK driveway cleaning price calculator prices that job per square metre in pounds, and the two often go out on one quote. The US version of this page, the gutter cleaning pricing calculator, prices the same arithmetic in linear feet; the Australian version does it in metres with GST, tile and metal roofs and gutter guard.
Fieldwynn, the field service software this site is built by, has not launched yet. There is no signup wall here and no trial to start: the calculator is free, it runs entirely in your browser, and nothing you type leaves the page.
Frequently asked questions
How much should I charge for gutter cleaning in the UK?
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How should I price fascia, soffit and conservatory cleaning?
Sources
- Safe use of ladders and stepladders: "ladders can be a sensible and practical option for low-risk, short-duration tasks, although they should not automatically be your first choice". Health and Safety Executive. Retrieved .
- Introduction to working at height safely: "avoid work at height where it's reasonably practicable to do so", and "do as much work as possible from the ground". Health and Safety Executive. Retrieved .
- VAT rates: "The standard VAT rate is 20%". GOV.UK (HM Revenue & Customs). Retrieved .
- Register for VAT: you must register if "your total taxable turnover for the last 12 months goes over £90,000 (the VAT threshold)" or "you expect your taxable turnover to go over £90,000 in the next 30 days", and you can choose to register below it. GOV.UK (HM Revenue & Customs). Retrieved .