Our crew cleans gutters in Opelika, every downspout flushed and flow-tested, the material bagged and hauled off, and photos of every run before we leave. The price comes from your stories, your home's size and how much tree cover is over the roof, and the number we give on the phone is the number on the invoice. Most of our Opelika customers book in spring and fall, which is when a clean roofline pays off most. Call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the house for a quote.
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 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. Other gutter cleaning services price per linear foot, and that gets you to a similar place, but we would rather give you one number that already covers the work. A blockage anywhere in the gutter system shows up as slow water flow at the bottom, which is why the flow test is part of every visit. This page is written for houses, so the figures here do not carry over to commercial properties until we have seen the building.
What moves the quote on our jobs is usually what the crew finds once it is up the ladder. A third story or a roof too steep to walk takes more time and more equipment. A walk-out basement or a sloped lot raises the effective height of the gutter, so the back run sits well above the ground. A rain gutter nobody has opened in years comes out packed with compacted leaves and debris, which slows drainage, and that takes longer to clean out than a run that gets opened every season. Guards we have to lift and reseat add time too. Downspout flushing, flow testing and haul-off are included and are never billed as extras. If anything changes the job, you hear it before work starts, never on the invoice.
On a recent job at one of the Opelika homes on our schedule, the house had two stories and a heavy canopy over the back run. The first thing we saw was a sag in the rear gutter that had held water for a long time, and the buildup had blocked the outlet on the downspout that feeds the drain. Clearing it and flushing the line the whole way down was the job, and once the outlet was open we could clean the rest of the run from the top. That is the kind of clog that makes the difference between a gutter that drains and one that overflows in heavy rainfall, and it is the sort of thing we check on every visit. Clogged downspouts and water that backs up are not a cosmetic problem; they are how structural damage and rot start.
| 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 Opelika customers book twice a year, once after the spring seed and pollen drop, and once in the fall after the last leaves come down. Across Alabama, the spring visit window falls in mid to late April, and when we open a gutter then we find seeds packed to the elbow and pollen paste sitting in the bends. In November it is the wet leaf mat that makes the rainwater back up at the eave line. Opelika averages about 55 inches of rain a year, and February, March and December are the wettest months, so waiting means the blockage stays in place through the heavy rain months.
Under heavy tree cover, we see every three to four months, because needles and grit pack the downspouts between visits and the clog builds faster than a yearly schedule can keep up with. Few or no trees, once a year in late fall is enough on most lots, and regular gutter cleaning keeps the trough clean between storms. Guards cut the frequency, but the surface still needs clearing on the same kind of schedule. Near a busy road or construction, the grit from the street gets into the gutter the same way, so those lots fall into the shorter interval too. Gutter cleaning service is the same work on any tier; the difference is how often the crew is back. Debris removal is part of every visit, so the bags leave with the truck. The intervals here are for residential properties, the houses this page is about. Residential and commercial buildings shed the same kind of material, but the figures on this page are for houses.
For a gutter cleaning in Opelika AL, the first visit sets the schedule, and a clean start makes every later visit faster. After that visit we give you an estimate for the tier your lot actually needs, based on what we found in the gutter and where the water went, and if you want to clean your gutters on a set schedule, we plan the dates with you.
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 Opelika and clears gutters for Opelika homeowners and surrounding areas from the nearest base, so the same crew and the same process apply on every street. Each homeowner gets the same quote process, by phone or text, whatever the house. Booking an Opelika gutter cleaning starts with a quote by phone or text from your stories, your home's size and how much tree cover is over the roof, and a photo of the house front is helpful if it is easy to send. Lead time changes with the season, and when we give you a date we confirm it before we come.
Our calendar fills in the two busy windows of the year, late spring and late fall, so the sooner you call, the easier it is to get the slot you want. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home while we work. A leak at a seam is a modest repair when it is caught early, and a much bigger job once it has soaked the wall. If the landscape around the house slopes toward the foundation, water finds its way back to the wall, so ask us about it on the visit. To protect your home from water damage, the earlier the gutter is opened, the sooner you can get water away from the wall and the foundation, so we flush every downspout and check the flow before we leave, and each visit leaves the gutter clean. A twig or a leaf mat can start a backup in a single storm, and gutter guards do not stop that surface mat from forming, so the first visit gets a clean start. Our cleanings are booked ahead for homes that need them most, and the goal on every visit is a clean trough. We keep your gutters and downspouts clear between visits, and we are glad to talk through gutter services that fit the way your house drains. Call (866) 435-6328, text a photo of the house front, or book a date to get on the calendar.
The number comes from stories and size, and we give it to you by phone or text at (866) 435-6328. The gutter cleaning process starts with the stories, the size and what is in the gutter, and those three things set the number we charge.
Most of our customers book in late spring and late fall. If you wait past the fall leaf drop, the leaf mat sits in the gutter through the wet months, and by March the runs that were not opened can have sagged under the weight of water and ice, and the fascia behind them can start to rot.
Most slots come up within the week, and we confirm a date when you call. Our cleaning services in Opelika are booked ahead of the two busy seasons, so the sooner you call, the easier it is to get your gutters cleared before the next storm.
No. Our crew works outside and does not come inside. Leave the side gate unlocked and keep pets inside while the ladders are up, and we send photos of every run and downspout to your phone before the truck leaves, so you can see the result without being there.
Yes, every downspout is flushed and flow-tested across the whole gutter system, and we check that water is leaving at the outlet. Clearing a buried line is a separate job that we quote before we touch it.
Yes, less often. Under guards on our jobs we find needles and seed casings sitting on top of the guard and roof grit underneath, and the surface still needs clearing so the water can get in and the trough stays clean. Guards change the cleaning and maintenance schedule, not the need for it.
A gutter that is clean and still sheets water over the edge in rain has a slope or capacity problem, not a blockage problem, and if the landscape around the foundation slopes toward the house, the water goes there too. Send us a short video of it in the rain and we tell you what it is. Until it is fixed, keep the downspout extensions pointing the water away from your home.
It should not. Anything that changes the job is raised with you before work starts, never on the invoice, and a clean invoice is the goal on every gutter maintenance visit.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
