Eavestrough cleaning in Toronto costs $150 to $350 for most homes, or $0.50 to $2.50 per linear foot. Five of the seven home types on one Toronto company’s 2026 published eavestrough price list fall between $150 and $350; large homes over 2,000 square feet and four-storey homes reach $500. Ontario HST of 13% is extra.
Here is the part nobody quotes you a price for. Your eavestrough is a trough of wet leaves right now, and it is fine — water still finds a way through. Then the first hard Toronto freeze arrives, the wet plug becomes a block of ice, and the next melt backs up under the shingle line. A frozen plug backing up under the shingle line is an ice dam. An ice dam rots fascia, soaks soffit, stains ceilings and finds the basement. A $200 job in October becomes a fascia-and-soffit repair in February, and those crews are booked solid when you need them. The cheap window is six weeks wide, and it opens the moment the leaves come down.
• Most Toronto homes: $150 – $350 per clean, before HST.
• Measured jobs: $0.50 – $2.50 per linear foot.
• Home over 2,000 sq ft: $300 – $500. Four-storey home: $350 – $500.
• Check whether your quote says eavestrough or gutter — one Toronto company publishes a different price list for each word.
• Book the fall clean for late October to late November — leaves down, before the first hard freeze.
• Ask for a WSIB clearance certificate or a current liability policy before anyone puts a ladder on your house.
How much does eavestrough cleaning cost in Toronto?
The table below shows what Toronto eavestrough cleaning is advertised at by home type: $150 to $250 for a one-storey bungalow, $175 to $275 for a two-storey semi-detached, $185 to $300 for a two-storey detached, and $300 to $500 for a home over 2,000 square feet. Measured jobs run $0.50 to $2.50 per linear foot.
Methodology: every price in the home-type table is an advertised asking price, not TaskRight quote data, read from the Eavestrough Cleaning Services – Toronto residential list in one Toronto exterior-cleaning company’s 2026 Toronto gutter and eavestrough price guide. The same guide prices commercial work on a separate list, putting mid-sized plaza units at $350 – $700, and no commercial figure appears in the home-type table. If a quote for your Toronto home lands near $700, ask which of the two lists it came off.
Ontario HST is 13%, and most Toronto eavestrough quotes are written before tax. A $200 quote bills at $226 and a $350 quote at $395.50 once 13% HST is added, so ask every company whether the number they gave you is with tax or without it.
One Toronto company publishes two separate residential price lists for the same work. Under Eavestrough Cleaning Services it prices a one-storey bungalow up to 1,000 sq ft at $150 – $250 and measured work at $0.50 – $2.50 per linear foot. Under Gutter Cleaning Services it prices a one-storey home of about 1,500 sq ft at $75 – $200 and caps measured work at $1.00 per linear foot. Same trough, same ladder, two price lists — so ask which one your quote was written from.
Eavestrough cleaning prices outside Toronto are published differently again. For the national picture — the storey-by-storey ladder, the per-linear-foot rates and the publishers who still quote 2016 figures — see eavestrough cleaning cost in Canada.
Why does eavestrough cleaning cost more on some Toronto homes?
Toronto eavestrough cleaning is priced on how much trough there is and how hard it is to reach, which is why one street produces both a $150 quote and a $500 quote. A Toronto company that measures will quote inside the published bands, and it is pricing six things:
- Linear feet of trough. The rate of $0.50 to $2.50 is applied to the actual run, so a wide bungalow can carry more trough than a narrow three-storey semi.
- Height and ladder setup. A three-storey Toronto detached needs a longer ladder, stabilizers, and often a second person footing it; a bungalow does not.
- Roof pitch. A steep pitch stops the crew stepping onto the roof, so the whole run is worked from the ladder, repositioning every few feet.
- Access. A narrow side passage, a deck, a fence line or an air-conditioner under the eave slows the ladder more than height does.
- Tree cover. A house under mature maples in High Park, the Beaches or Leaside fills with far more debris than one on an open street.
- Downspouts and guards. Flushing every downspout is not always in the base price, and lifting leaf guards is usually extra.
The oldest move in eavestrough cleaning is the mid-job phone call: loose hangers, a sagging run, a separated seam, a downspout that needs replacing. Sometimes it is real — you cannot see your own trough from the ground, which is exactly why the pitch works. Two rules protect you. One: ask for photos of the damage, from the ladder, before approving anything. Two: repairs are a separate job with a separate written price, never a verbal yes while someone stands on your roof.
What happens if you skip eavestrough cleaning before a Toronto winter?
A clogged eavestrough in Toronto turns into an ice dam, and an ice dam turns a $200 cleaning job into a repair bill. Wet leaf pack sits in the trough, Toronto's temperature crosses zero back and forth all season, and the pack freezes solid with the downspout inside it. Snow on the warm upper roof melts, runs to the cold eave, hits the ice and stops. Water pools behind the dam and works backwards under the bottom courses of shingle.
From there it goes into the fascia board, into the soffit, and along the top plate into the wall. Homeowners usually meet the problem as a brown ring on an upstairs ceiling in February, or as water in the basement during the spring melt, when a blocked downspout has been dumping meltwater against the foundation. Weight matters too: a trough packed with wet debris and ice pulls hangers out of the fascia, and a sagged run never drains properly again.
When should eavestroughs be cleaned in Toronto?
Toronto eavestroughs get cleaned twice a year — once in late autumn after leaf drop, once in spring — and the calendar below shows the window for each visit and why it matters.
Homes under heavy canopy often need a third visit in mid-autumn. If you pay for only one clean a year in Toronto, make it the late-autumn one — that is the visit that protects you through the freeze.
Is your Toronto eavestrough cleaner registered with WSIB — and what if they aren't?
WSIB coverage is not automatic for the person on your ladder in Toronto. The WSIB requires independent operators, sole proprietors, partners and executive officers carrying on business in construction to register, but exempts those working exclusively on home renovation directly for the occupant. Between that exemption and the fact that routine cleaning is not construction work, a one-person eavestrough crew can be entirely legitimate and hold no WSIB account. Assume nothing; ask.
The document that settles it is a WSIB clearance certificate. A clearance confirms the contractor is registered with the WSIB and its account is in good standing, is valid for up to 90 calendar days, and is renewable. Where a contractor has no valid clearance and owes the WSIB money, the principal who hired them may be liable for the unpaid premiums and other outstanding amounts, up to the value of the labour portion of the contract. If the company is exempt and has no clearance, ask instead for written confirmation, in the business's name, of who pays if a worker is hurt on your property or your house is damaged.
Ontario's Occupiers' Liability Act puts a duty on the occupier of a property — you, the homeowner — to take such care as in all the circumstances is reasonable to see that people entering the premises are reasonably safe. Ladder work on your fascia sits inside that duty.
Ontario's Working at Heights rule under O. Reg. 297/13 requires a worker using fall protection on a construction project to hold training approved by the Chief Prevention Officer, valid three years. Routine eavestrough cleaning on a house is not a construction project, so a Toronto cleaner is not automatically required to hold it — which makes the practical question the better one. Ask what the crew uses: ladder standoffs so the ladder never rests on the trough, a roof anchor and harness if anyone steps onto the roof, and a second person footing the ladder.
A crew with no WSIB clearance and no liability policy carries none of that cost in its price, which is exactly how it undercuts everyone else by fifty dollars. You hold the risk it dropped. A fall from a two-storey Toronto eave is a serious injury, and the argument over who pays happens on your property, against your own home policy. Get the clearance certificate emailed to you before the ladder comes off the truck.
What should you ask a Toronto eavestrough cleaner before booking?
Seven questions separate a Toronto eavestrough company that does the job properly from one that scoops the front run and leaves. Send them by message, so the answers are in writing.
✓ Is the quote for the whole house, and how many linear feet is it based on?
✓ Does the price include HST, or is 13% added on top?
✓ Do you flush every downspout and confirm it drains, or only clear the trough?
✓ Do you bag and remove the debris, or leave it on the property?
✓ Can you send a WSIB clearance certificate — and if you're exempt, who pays if someone is hurt here?
✓ Do you use ladder standoffs so the ladder never rests on the eavestrough itself?
✓ Will you send before-and-after photos from the ladder, including the downspout outlets?
A company that answers all seven in one message is the one to book. One that will not put the footage or the tax treatment in writing is telling you what the invoice will look like.
How do you get Toronto eavestrough quotes without paying lead fees?
Before you compare a single quote, understand how lead-selling directories make their money. On one of those directories the pro pays for your enquiry, and the same enquiry can be sold to several companies at once. Nothing about that is illegal. Lead-selling is a model in which the pro's customer is the platform, not you — and money spent buying your details before anyone says hello has to come back out of something. The cost of buying your details comes back out of your quote.
TaskRight runs the opposite model. Pros pay one flat subscription and TaskRight takes 0% commission — the pro keeps 100% of what you pay for the job. No per-lead fees, so nobody buys your request and nobody resells it to a queue of companies who all phone you at dinner. You describe the house once, the quotes come back, you compare and you choose. Free to you, no contract, no obligation to hire anyone.
TaskRight is a verified, zero-commission home services platform in Canada. Post your eavestrough job, read the quotes side by side, check the clearance certificate, and book the pro you actually want on your roof — before the leaves come down.
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Eavestrough cleaning in Toronto: frequently asked questions
How much does it cost to have gutters cleaned in Toronto?
Gutter cleaning in Toronto, called eavestrough cleaning locally, runs $150 to $350 on most homes on one Toronto company’s 2026 published eavestrough price list. That same Toronto eavestrough price list puts a one-storey bungalow at $150 to $250 and a three-storey detached at $200 to $350. Large and four-storey Toronto homes reach $500. Ontario HST of 13% is added on top.
How much should I pay for my gutters to be cleaned?
Eavestrough cleaning in Toronto should be priced by the size and access of the house, not by a flat rate. Published 2026 Toronto pricing puts the work at $0.50 to $2.50 per linear foot, so a bungalow with easy ladder access belongs near $150 to $250 and a three-storey detached near $200 to $350. Anything outside those bands needs explaining.
How often should eavestroughs be cleaned in Toronto?
Clean Toronto eavestroughs twice a year: once in late autumn after the maples and oaks finish dropping, and once in spring after the seed keys and shingle grit wash down. Homes under heavy tree cover in areas like High Park, the Beaches or Leaside often need a third visit in mid-autumn to stop a mid-season clog.
What should you not use to clean gutters?
Do not use a high-pressure washer, a metal scraper, or bleach on Toronto eavestroughs. High pressure drives water behind the fascia and can pop hangers loose, metal scrapes the aluminum coating, and bleach damages the finish and the planting below. Do not rest the ladder on the trough itself either — the ladder dents the front edge.
What is the fastest way to clean gutters?
The fastest safe method on a single-storey Toronto home is a wet/dry vacuum with a curved extension pole, worked from the ground. On a two-storey or three-storey home, the fastest method is a pro on a stabilized ladder scooping the trough by hand and then flushing each downspout with a hose to confirm it drains.
Last updated: August 2026. Toronto prices are checked against published sources every six months.
