Our crew cleans gutters in Berkeley, flushing every downspout, testing the flow, hauling the debris away, and sending photos of every run before we leave. The price comes from your stories, your roof size and how much tree cover is over the house, and the number we give you on the phone is the number on your invoice. Most of our Berkeley customers book in the spring and fall, and that is when our calendar fills.
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. Some companies price by the linear foot, which lands in a similar place once the job is measured, but we would rather give every homeowner one clean figure for the whole house.
On our jobs, a few things move the quote. 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 roofline, so the back run sits farther up than it looks from the yard. Gutters that have had no gutter maintenance in years come down packed with compacted debris and years of buildup, and that takes longer to clear than a run we see every season. A twig jammed in a downspout elbow adds its own time, and guards we have to lift and reseat add more. Clearing the gutters and downspouts, flow testing, and debris removal are all included and are never billed as extras. If a seam has started to leak, that is a repair question, so it is not part of the clean and we quote it separately. If anything we find changes the job, you hear about it before work starts, never on the invoice.
On a recent Berkeley job, the house had two stories, a moderate amount of tree cover and a rear run that needed to be cleared twice before the water ran clean at the outlet. The quote was built from those conditions and stayed the same at the end. Our crew photographs every run, so you can see what we found for yourself. Berkeley homeowners who want a number can text us a photo of the front of the house and tell us the stories and the rough square footage, and we will give you a price for your home.
Get your gutters on a schedule that fits the lot, and we will tell you what we see on the first visit. Then keep your gutters on that schedule, and every run starts the season clean. Cleaning and maintenance are quoted together, and the cleanings on that schedule are priced the same way, so the number on the invoice matches the one on the phone.
| One story | Two stories | Three stories or steep | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1,500 sq ft | from $150 | from $225 | from $295 |
| 1,500 to 2,500 sq ft | from $200 | from $260 | from $335 |
| Over 2,500 sq ft | from $235 | from $305 | from $395 |
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 Berkeley customers book twice a year, once in the spring after the seed and pollen drop and once in the fall after the last leaves come down. Across California, the spring visit falls in mid to late June. When we open a gutter for that visit, we find seeds, seed casings and pollen paste packed into the downspout elbows. In the fall it is the wet leaf mat, and across California the fall visit falls in late November to December. On houses that skipped the fall visit we often find a blockage at the downspout elbow and runs that have started to sag or pull loose by the next spring.
Under heavy tree cover, where needles and grit pack the downspouts between visits, our customers are on every three to four months, and a clean at that interval catches the clog before it forms. A landscape with heavy overhang needs the closer schedule. Near a busy road or active construction, the grit load is higher and the same schedule applies to keep drainage moving. Homes with few or no trees do well with a single clean each year in late fall. Gutters with guards still need cleaning, just less often, and the surface still gets cleared. This is the same gutter system whether it is guarded or open, and the surface still has to be checked.
After the first visit, we tell you which of those tiers your lot actually needs. Regular gutter cleaning keeps leaves and debris from packing the runs, and a clean rain gutter carries water away from your home the way it was built to. The gutter cleaning process starts with the roof, then the runs, then a flush of every downspout, and every visit gets the same photos so you can compare from one season to the next. Across California, atmospheric rivers deliver most of the year's rain in a handful of days, and one heavy rainfall can fill a trough that was clean the week before with rainwater. Skipping that visit lets clogged downspouts cause structural damage and rot, and a clean on schedule is how you protect your home from water damage.
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 Berkeley CA, and our cleaning services in berkeley reach the city from the nearest base, so most of the homes we serve are within a short drive of our trucks. Gutter cleaning services for residential and commercial buildings alike are booked from the same calendar, and Berkeley homes and surrounding areas share it too. The quote comes by phone or text: send us your stories, your approximate square footage, whether trees hang over the roof, and a photo of the front of the house if that is easy. From there we give you a date. Lead time changes with the season, and the busiest windows are late spring and late fall, when our calendar fills fastest. Call (866) 435-6328 and we will tell you the next open date.
We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for exterior work. If you want the calendar to hold through the rainy months, book a date early in the year and we will mark it. Residential properties and commercial properties share the same scheduling, and we confirm each slot in writing before the crew is sent out. Booking early also helps if a clog is already forming, so the runs get a look before the wet season. Each gutter cleaning service visit ends with photos of every run, and we flush every downspout and check water flow at the outlet before we leave. If you are not sure whether your house needs a spring or fall visit, ask us, and we will look at the roofline and the trees and tell you how often to clean your gutters.
For Berkeley homeowners, the number comes from the stories, the size of the house and what is in the gutters, and we give it to you by phone at (866) 435-6328 or by text. We do not give a range here because two houses on the same street can need very different work.
Most of our customers here book in late spring, after the pollen drop, and again in late fall, after the leaves come down. If you wait past the first hard rains, the runs get heavier and the job takes longer.
Most slots come up within the week, and we confirm a date when you call. We will tell you what we have open rather than promise a date we cannot keep.
No. 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 clear the gutters and downspouts on every visit, flush every downspout, and check that the water leaves at the outlet. If a downspout feeds an underground drain line, we check that water is leaving and tell you if it is not. Clearing a buried line is a separate job and is quoted before anyone touches it.
Yes. On our jobs, guarded gutters still collect needles, seed casings and grit on the surface, and the mat can turn into a block. We lift the panels, clean underneath, flush the downspouts and reseat the guards.
A gutter that is clean and still sheets rainwater over the edge has a slope or downspout-size problem, not a debris problem. Send us a photo or a short video of it in the rain and we will tell you what it actually is. We do not sell a second cleaning for a slope problem. Getting the cause right is how you protect your home from water damage.
The price we quote is the price we charge. If the crew finds something that changes the job, you hear 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.
