Our own crew provides gutter cleaning services in Tuscaloosa AL. Every drain pipe gets flushed and flow-tested, the leftover material goes into bags, and you get photos of every run before we leave. Homeowners get the number on the phone, and that number is the one on the invoice. Across Alabama, most of our customers book in spring and fall, once the seed drop and the falling leaves are behind them. A clogged trough spills rainwater over the edge, so the goal is simple: keep it clean and moving.
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 gutters. Our gutter cleaning services follow one rule: we quote residential properties and commercial properties from those three things, by phone or text, and the number we quote is the number we charge. Companies that price by length land in a similar place per linear foot, though we do not quote that way.
On our jobs, a few things move the quote. A third story or a roof too steep to walk takes more time on the ladder. A walk-out basement or sloped lot raises the effective height of the roofline. A gutter system nobody has opened in years comes out packed with compacted buildup and a long clog, and it takes more time to get clean. Guards we have to lift and reseat add time too. Clogged downspouts get flushed and flow-tested, and leaves and debris are hauled off and included, never billed as an extra. Clearing the drainage path matters more than how the trough looks. Anything that changes the job gets raised before work starts, never on the invoice.
On our jobs, one recent visit shows how this works. A house with heavy tree cover and a sag in the back run had leaves and grit packed into the elbows, and the water flow out of the drain pipes was almost nothing. We cleared it, flushed each drain pipe until it ran clean at the bottom, and showed the homeowner that the rain gutter was moving water away from the foundation again. Plenty of tuscaloosa homes we open look like this one. Most of the call-backs we see come from gutters that were never opened, not from the work itself. We find structural damage from water sitting in rotted sections, and that is the thing to catch early.
| 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 book twice a year, in the spring after the seed and pollen drop and in the fall after the last leaves. Most homes need one gutter cleaning service visit in each season, and our cleanings cluster in those two windows. A clean gutter in spring is the easy job; a packed one in fall is the hard one. Across Alabama, the spring visit usually lands in mid to late April. When we open a gutter here in spring we find seeds, seed casings and pollen paste packed into the elbows. In fall it is the wet leaf mat, and the fall visit usually falls in November to early December. Houses that skip that visit tend to show runs that sag or pull loose by the next season, and wood rot tends to follow.
Tuscaloosa winters carry freeze risk, and water trapped behind a blockage in the trough can freeze at the eave and push up under the shingles. Under heavy tree cover, where the canopy hangs over the roof, our customers are on a schedule of every three to four months, because needles, grit and the odd twig pack the drain pipes between visits; one clog at an elbow can back rainwater up in a single storm. With few or no trees, once a year in late fall is enough. Near a busy road or construction, the grit builds faster and the shorter schedule makes sense. Watch for a leak at a seam, and call us if a run sags again even after a clean pass through it. Check the landscape beds below the drain pipes after rain; washed-out mulch means water is coming off the roof and not going down the pipe. Gutter guards cut the schedule down, but the surface still needs clearing.
Across Alabama, storm season brings Gulf hurricanes and tropical remnants, and a gutter already full of leaves has no room left for that rain. After the first visit we tell you which tier your lot actually needs. Set a reminder to clean your gutters in spring and fall, keep them clean between visits, and let regular gutter cleaning do the rest, since cleaning and maintenance on a set calendar costs less than a rotted fascia board. Call (866) 435-6328 and we will put the spring or fall visit on the calendar.
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 gutter services cover residential and commercial accounts in the surrounding areas, dispatched from the nearest base. We check the gutters and downspouts from the ground before any ladder goes up. Booking starts with a quote by phone or text based on stories, size and tree cover, plus a photo of the front of the house if it is easy to send. Tuscaloosa gutter cleaning fills in two busy windows of the year, so book early if you want a particular week. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for the work.
Lead time is confirmed when you call. We will tell you the first open date, not promise a slot we cannot keep. If you want to get your gutters on the calendar, set a reminder for the spring and fall visits and we will hold the date. Each visit is meant to protect your home from water damage: we clear the trough, flush every downspout, and debris removal is included in the quote. Call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the roofline and we will give you a written estimate for the visit.
Homeowners with a two-story house get a clean number from stories and size, by phone or text. We do not guess on the phone and we do not change it on the ladder.
Most of our customers across Tuscaloosa book in late spring and late fall. On our jobs, the spring visit leaves gutters clean of seed and pollen, and the fall visit clears the leaf load before the first freeze.
Our cleaning services in Tuscaloosa usually come up within the week, and we confirm a specific date when you call. We do not promise same-day work we cannot schedule.
No, you do not need to be home. Our gutter cleaning process runs outside only: the crew does not come inside, and photos of every run reach your phone before the truck leaves.
Yes, we flush every drain pipe and check that water runs clean out of the outlet. Clearing a buried drain line is a separate job, quoted before anyone touches it. Routine gutter maintenance covers the flush, and the goal is water moving away from your home.
Yes. Gutter guards hold back the leaves, but needles, seed pods and grit still collect on top of them and wash through when it rains. The surface still needs a clean, though less often than an open gutter.
A clean gutter that still sheets water over the edge has a slope or capacity problem, not a buildup problem. Send us a photo or a short video taken during heavy rainfall and we tell you what it is. We do not sell a second cleaning for a slope problem.
No. The price we quote is the price on the invoice, a clean match to the quote. If the crew finds something that changes the job, you hear about it and agree to it before work starts.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
