Our own crew cleans gutters in Mobile, every downspout flushed and flow-tested, leaves hauled away, and photos of every run before we leave. The price comes from your stories, your square footage and how much tree cover is over the roof, and the number we give you on the phone is the number on your invoice. Across Alabama, most of our customers book a cleaning in the spring and again in the fall, and we keep those same visit windows for every house on our route.
Quoted from stories, size and tree cover, over the phone, with nothing added once the crew is on the roof.
The price depends on how many stories the house has, its square footage and what is sitting in the gutters. 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 price by the linear foot land in a similar place, but we would rather you know the full number before a ladder goes up.
On our jobs, a third story or a roof too steep to walk is the biggest single factor. A walk-out basement or a sloped lot raises the effective height of the roofline, and a gutter nobody has opened in years comes down heavy and compacted, with buildup that takes far longer than a light run. Guards we have to lift and reseat to reach the trough add time as well. Downspout flushing, flow testing and debris removal are included and are never billed as extras. If anything we find changes the job, we raise it before work starts, never on the invoice.
Our jobs show the same pattern. A house with heavy tree canopy tends to carry more leaf and grit load per run than an open lot, and the clog builds faster in the downspout. We tell you what we see from the photo of the front of the house, and we say so plainly when the number on the phone is different from what the crew finds once they are on site.
Our gutter cleaning services follow the same logic whether the house is a single family home or one of the mobile homes in the area. We price residential and commercial work by the same rule: what is on the building. Residential properties get the same straight quote. Regular gutter cleaning keeps the drainage clear enough that a sag or a leak does not start. On a clean lot, one cleaning a year is the normal spread, and under trees the cleanings come closer together. Text us a photo of the roofline when you call at (866) 435-6328 and we will tell you which one applies to your house.
| 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 of our customers in Mobile AL book twice a year, for spring and fall: late spring after the seed and pollen drop, and late fall after the last leaves come down. In spring the gutter is full of seeds, seed casings and pollen paste that pack the elbows of every downspout. In fall it is the leaves and debris from the trees, and it is the first thing that turns into a clog when the rainy season starts. Our crew is out in both windows because that is when a gutter is most likely to back water over the edge, and the gutters need to be clean before the rain sets in.
Under heavy tree cover, every three to four months is what we see holding up. A single twig, a few needles and grit pack every downspout between visits, and a run that was clear in mid-April can be a full blockage by the wettest stretch of the year, when the rainwater comes in hardest from May through July. On a clean lot with few or no trees, once a year in late fall is enough. Near a busy road or a construction site, the same tighter schedule applies because the grit load is higher. Guards cut the frequency, but the surface still has to be cleared. Rain here totals about 68.5 inches a year, and across Alabama, Gulf hurricanes and tropical remnants add storm litter to gutters across the surrounding areas, so the fall visit matters too.
Our crew checks the gutters and downspouts on every visit, and we flush every downspout and check the water flow, so a slow run shows up before it becomes a clog, and the gutter is left clean. Keep your gutters on a schedule and you protect your home from water damage around the eave, the fascia and the foundation below, and you avoid structural damage that starts as a small leak. A clear system carries water away from the house in a heavy rain, which is the whole point of the visit. After the first visit we tell you which tier your lot actually needs, and we keep that schedule in your calendar from there.
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.
The crew works from the nearest base, so the trip time on a given day depends on the route, not the neighborhood. To book mobile gutter cleaning, call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the front of the house, and we will quote from stories, size and tree cover. Lead time changes with the season, and we confirm the date when we call back before the crew comes out.
The two busy windows are late spring and late fall, when our calendar fills fastest. Booking early in those months keeps you on the schedule you want. We call before we come, and homeowners do not need to be home for the cleaning. The crew works from the outside, with the ladders set away from your home, and sends the photos to your phone when they finish.
Whether it is a single gutter run or a full schedule of cleaning and maintenance for commercial properties, the gutter cleaning process starts the same way: a quote from what we can see, a booked date, then a clean run from trough to outlet and the photos. Our crew does the gutter maintenance from the ground and the ladder, and it is simple to get your gutters on a regular plan from the first call.
The number comes from stories and square footage, and we give you an estimate over the phone or by text. We do not quote a figure without knowing those and what is in the gutters. The number we quote is the number on the invoice.
Most of our customers book in late spring and again in late fall, and that is when it pays to clean your gutters: late spring clears the seed and pollen before the wet stretch from May through July, and the fall visit clears the leaves before the rain sets in. If the fall visit gets skipped, runs pull loose and the fascia can rot before the next rainy season. Getting a clean system before the first heavy rainfall is the easier job.
Same-day slots depend on the calendar that week, and the crew working across mobile fills fastest in late spring and late fall. Most slots come up within the week, and we confirm the date when you call.
No. A homeowner does not have to be there. Our crew works outside, does not come inside, and sends 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, we flush every downspout and check the flow at the outlet across the whole gutter system. If a line drains underground into the landscape and is not clearing, we tell you what we see. Clearing a buried line is a separate job and is quoted before anyone touches it.
Yes. Gutter guards keep out leaves, but the needles, seed casings and grit settle on top of the guard, and the surface still has to be cleared for water to get in. Under guards we often find a clean trough and clogged downspouts underneath.
A rain gutter that is clean and still overflows has a slope or capacity problem, not a cleaning problem. Send us a photo or a short video of it in the rain and we tell you what it is. We will not sell a second cleaning for a slope problem.
It should not. If the crew finds something that changes the job, you hear it and agree to it before work starts, never after.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
