Our own crew cleans gutters and downspouts in Albertville AL, flushes and flow-tests each one, hauls off the buildup, and takes photos of every run once it is clean before we leave. The price comes from your stories, your home's size and how much tree cover is over the house, and the number we give on the phone is the number on your invoice. Most Albertville homeowners book in the spring and fall, after seed and pollen drop and again after the last leaves come down. Call (866) 435-6328 or text us a photo of the roofline to get your gutters checked and a date on the calendar.
Quoted from stories, size and tree cover, over the phone, with nothing added once the crew is on the roof.
The price depends on stories, square footage and what is sitting in the troughs. We quote it over the phone or by text from those three things, and the number we quote is the number we charge. Companies that sell gutter cleaning services by the linear foot tend to land in a similar place, but we would rather give you one number for the whole house than make you multiply. We quote residential properties and commercial properties the same way, from the phone call.
What moves the quote on our jobs is usually the same handful of things. A third story or a roof too steep to walk takes more time and more care. A walk-out basement puts the back run a long way up from the ground. Clogged downspouts take longer, and a clog at a bend in the pipe adds time too. Rain gutter runs that nobody has opened in years come out packed with compacted buildup and the odd twig, and that is a slower clean. Guards we have to lift and reseat add time on both ends. Flushing the drains, checking water flow and hauling off leaves and debris are included in the quote and are never billed as extras. If anything we find changes the job, you hear about it before work starts, never on the invoice.
Here is what we have seen drive quotes on Albertville homes. One customer's two-story house had a heavy leaf load, and the runs had not been opened in a long time. The crew had to clean out a leaf mat and found the start of a sag where the run had been carrying water, so the visit included checking the hangers and photographing the sag for the report. The quote was built from those stories, that house and that buildup, and it did not change once the crew was on site. Under the same logic, the clogged drains and the water away from your home are what we check first on any home in the area, because that is where structural damage starts when the drainage fails.
If you want a number, call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the front of the house and we will walk you through the process and give you one from the phone call.
| One story | Two stories | Three stories or steep | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1,500 sq ft | from $150 | from $185 | from $240 |
| 1,500 to 2,500 sq ft | from $165 | from $215 | from $280 |
| Over 2,500 sq ft | from $190 | from $250 | from $325 |
For context, nationally: Angi 2026, US average $168, most $119 to $234, $0.95 to $2.25 per linear foot.
Downspouts flushed and flow-tested, debris hauled, photos of every run. The quote already has all of it in.
Our crew clears every gutter run by hand, not just the stretch you can see from the driveway. Roof valleys and the area above the gutter line are blown clear first, so the next rain does not refill what was just emptied. Every downspout is flushed with water and watched until it runs clear at the bottom; one that will not clear is worked from the top where it can be reached. Where a downspout feeds an underground drain line, the crew checks that water is leaving at the outlet and tells you if it is not; clearing a buried line is a separate job and is quoted before anyone touches it.
Debris goes into bags and leaves with the truck. It is not blown onto the lawn, the deck or next door. The ground is left as it was found.
Before the crew leaves you get photos of every run and every downspout, before and after, on your phone, whether or not you were home. Anything the crew sees that is not a cleaning problem, a hanger pulled loose, a seam dripping, a run sitting flat, is photographed and reported, not repaired and not sold on the spot.
What can change the number, and you hear it before work starts, never on the invoice: a third story or a roof too steep to walk; gutters that have not been touched in years; guards that have to come off and go back on.
Twice a year for most houses: once after the spring seed and pollen drop, once after the last leaves fall.
Most Albertville homeowners book twice a year, once in the spring after seed and pollen drop and once in the fall after the last leaves come down. Albertville gets about 58.6 inches of heavy rainfall a year, with January, March and December the wettest months. On our jobs here, when we open a run in the spring and clean it, we find seed casings and pollen paste packed into the drain elbows. In the fall it is the wet leaf mat, and on houses that skipped the fall visit we have seen runs that sag or pull loose by March under the weight of ice.
Under heavy tree cover, regular gutter cleaning every three to four months is the schedule that keeps the drains flowing, because needles and grit pack into the trough between visits. Near a busy road or a construction site, the same tighter schedule applies, since the grit and dust build up faster. Few or no trees over the house and a clear lot, once a year in late fall is usually enough. Guards change the schedule a bit, since they keep most leaves out, but debris removal from the surface still happens on every visit and the drains still need checking. The schedule works the same for residential and commercial properties, and residential properties in town follow it too.
After the first visit, we tell you which tier your lot actually needs, based on what we found in the run, not on a general rule. The clog and the rainwater behavior on your roofline show us the blockage pattern, and that is what sets the estimate for the next visit. Gutters that come out clean on the second visit are a good sign the schedule is right. Our gutter cleaning service is booked on the same calendar, so if you want a visit scheduled, call (866) 435-6328 or book a date online.
Water over the edge rots the board behind the gutter first. Everything after that is slow, and slow is what a policy excludes.
The three signs. Water pouring over the front edge in rain instead of out of the downspout. A run that sags, sits low or has pulled away from the fascia. Plants growing out of the trough. Any one of them means the gutter is full.
What happens next. Water that cannot drain sits in the trough and spills behind it. The fascia board rots, then the soffit. Water backs up under the first course of shingles and shows up as a ceiling stain. Siding stains and swells. Below, the overflow cuts a channel at the foundation and finds the basement. The wet debris itself weighs enough to pull the gutter off the house. Standing water breeds mosquitoes; dry debris houses wasps. Where winters freeze, the trapped water becomes an ice dam at the eave and lifts the shingles from underneath.
Why your policy will not pay. Homeowners insurance generally does not cover water damage traced to clogged gutters. Carriers class gutter cleaning as routine maintenance, and damage from skipped maintenance as preventable neglect, which a standard policy excludes. A limb that tears a gutter off in a storm is sudden and accidental and is usually covered; a fascia board that rotted over two years is not. This is general information, not insurance advice; read your policy or ask your agent.
Guards stop leaves. They do not stop needles, seeds, grit or the paste they turn into. The job gets shorter, not gone.
Yes, guarded gutters still need cleaning, less often, and it is a different job: clearing what sits on top of the guard and checking that water is actually getting in, rather than scooping out the trough. Mesh and screen guards hold whole leaves off. Pine needles thread through, seed casings and pollen mat on top, roof grit settles underneath, and once that mat is wet, rain runs over it and off the front edge. The gutter is empty and the water never went in.
Guards earn their keep under big leafy trees and on roofs too high to want to climb. They do not end maintenance, whatever the installer said. Our crew lifts the panels, clears underneath, flushes the downspouts and reseats the guards; tell us what is on the house when you get the quote and it is priced as a guarded system, which usually runs shorter than an open one.
Under an hour on most houses. Nobody has to be there, and the photos arrive either way.
The crew calls the day before with an arrival window and again when they are on the way. This Old House puts a professional gutter cleaning at 30 minutes to an hour on a typical home; bigger houses, steep roofs and gutters left for years run longer. Nobody needs to be home for exterior work; the crew does not come inside. Before they arrive: side gate unlocked, cars off the driveway if runs face it, pets inside while ladders are up. Ladder stand-offs keep the ladder off the gutter lip and the siding. After: photos of every run and downspout before the truck leaves, and an invoice that matches the quote.
Send us a photo or a short video in the rain. You hear what it is before anyone talks about money.
Still overflowing. A gutter that is clean and still sheets water over the edge in rain has a slope, capacity or downspout-size problem, not a debris problem. If that happens after a cleaning, send us a photo or a short video of it in the rain and we tell you what it actually is; we do not sell a second cleaning for a slope problem.
The number. The price quoted on the phone is the price on the invoice. If the crew finds something that changes the job, you hear it and agree to it before they start, never after.
Your house. Stand-offs on every ladder so nothing rests on the gutter lip, and screens and downspout extensions go back where they were.
Payment. The balance is charged when the job is finished and the photos are on your phone. Some dates take a small booking fee to hold the slot, and you hear about it before you book.
The whole city and the towns around it, booked by phone or text from the nearest crew.
Our crew works across Albertville and the surrounding areas, and covers the city from the nearest base without needing to name it. Albertville gutter cleaning is booked off the same calendar, so when you call, we take your stories, your square footage and whether there are trees over the roof, and if it is easy, a clean photo of the house front by text. That gets you a quote over the phone. The calendar fills during the two busy windows of the year, mostly the weeks after seed drop in spring and the weeks after leaves fall in autumn, so booking early in those windows gives you more choice of date.
We call before we come, and a homeowner does not need to be home for an exterior clean. If you want to clean your gutters between visits, ask us about the flush every downspout check, which is a short call-back add-on that keeps water moving. If your house has gutter guards, ask about those too, since guards change what the crew checks. Clearing the runs is how you keep your gutters working, protect your home from water damage and from a slow leak at the eave, and keep the drainage working through heavy rainfall, which is what the schedule is for. Our gutter services are scheduled around you, so tell us the dates that suit and we will fit the crew around them. Our cleaning and maintenance visits follow the same calendar, and so do the cleanings between them. Call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo to book a date.
The number comes from the stories, the size of the house and what is in the troughs, and we give it to you by phone or text. Our cleaning services in Albertville are not quoted on the web, because a two-story house with a heavy leaf load and one with light buildup are different jobs. Call (866) 435-6328 and we will walk you through the gutter cleaning process and give you the number on the call.
Most of our customers here book in late spring, after the seed and pollen drop, and in late fall, after the last leaves are down and before a hard freeze. Fall visits here usually land in late November to December, and if you wait past that, the drains pack solid and the runs take longer to clear. A clean run in fall is faster to finish, and our crew sees the difference every season.
Most slots come up within the week, and we confirm the date when you call. We do not promise same-day service, because the calendar depends on the weather and the busy windows.
No, you do not need to be home. Our crew works outside and does not come inside, and the crew does the clean outside and leaves the house as it was found. They send photos of every run and downspout to your phone before the truck leaves. Leave the side gate unlocked and keep pets inside while the ladders are up.
Yes, every downspout is flushed and checked for flow, and we report where the water is leaving the line. We also look at the landscape below each outlet for washout. A buried drain line that needs clearing is a separate job and is quoted before anyone touches it.
Yes. On our jobs under guards we still find leaf litter, needles, seed balls and grit sitting on top of the guard, and the water runs off the front edge once that mat is wet. Gutter maintenance under guards is shorter than on an open run, but it is not gone.
A gutter that is clean and still sheets water over the edge in rain has a slope or capacity problem, not a debris problem. Send us a photo or a short video in the rain and we will tell you what it is. If the water has been running over the edge for a long time, check the fascia for rot before anything else. We do not sell a second cleaning for a slope problem.
It should not. The quote is built from the stories, the size and the tree cover, and anything that changes the job is raised with you before the work starts. The number we quote is the number on your invoice.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
