Laval · Sainte-Dorothée
Gutter Cleaning Sainte-Dorothée
Sainte-Dorothée: what if your roof water watered your garden?
Sainte-Dorothée has a long horticultural tradition, and many lots there are carefully landscaped. Directed well, the water from your gutters becomes the garden's ally.
- Complete maintenance: roof blown off, gutters emptied by hand, downspouts cleared
- Included at no charge: fasteners, up to 2 joints and 10 hangers
- Proof: before/after photos and report
- Quote: online, no visit
Three ways to put the water to good use
The rain barrel
Rainwater, free of chlorine and at air temperature, is ideal for plants. We can modify your downspout to feed a barrel. The overflow must also be carried away from the house.
The rain garden
A shallow dip planted with water-tolerant perennials, at the end of an extension. It soaks up downpours and becomes a nice feature in the landscape.
The flower bed at the end of the extension
The simplest: point a swivel extension toward a flower bed, a good distance from the foundation. In Laval, water must drain onto a permeable surface, which works out nicely.
Protecting your landscaping during the maintenance
We know a flower bed represents hours of work. Our technicians choose carefully where to set the ladder, send roof debris away from the beds when possible, and pick everything up from the ground before leaving.
A detail that matters: compost
The leaves taken out of gutters are often mixed with shingle granules and packed mud. That's not good compost for the vegetable garden: we pick them up with the rest of the debris.
Municipal bylaws
Gutters: what the bylaw says in Laval
- Water from a sloped roof must be carried away by exterior gutters and downspouts.
- It must drain onto a permeable surface at least 1 metre from the building (bylaw L-11870).
- Bylaw L-12330, for its part, requires this water to be directed onto the ground at least 1.5 m from the building, avoiding seepage toward any foundation drain.
- It is prohibited to connect a downspout to a foundation drain.
- It is prohibited to direct roof water toward a driveway, and the City asks that it never be directed toward the street or the neighbouring property.
Sources (in French): Règlement L-11870 (Code de construction), art. 5.05.01 · Règlement L-12330 (rejets dans les réseaux) · Ville de Laval : bien gérer l’eau pluviale. Consulted on November 9, 2026.
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Coming soon in Sainte-Dorothée (not offered yet): window cleaning · soft washing of siding and roofs
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