Our own crew cleans gutters in Burbank, flushing every downspout, flow-testing each run, hauling the debris away and sending photos of every run before we leave. The price comes from your stories, your square footage and how much tree cover hangs over the roof, and the number we give you on the phone is the number on your invoice. Most of our customers book in the spring and fall, and we have been running that schedule on our jobs for years.
Quoted from stories, size and tree cover, over the phone, with nothing added once the crew is on the roof.
Every Burbank homeowner asks about price first, and the answer depends on how many stories the house has, its square footage and what is sitting in the gutters. We quote gutter cleaning services 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 per foot of gutter, but we would rather give you one number for the whole house.
What moves the quote on our Burbank jobs is usually what the crew finds once the ladder is up. A third story or a roof too steep to walk takes more time and more setup. A walk-out basement or a sloped landscape raises the effective height of the eaves, so the back run sits farther up the slope than the front. Gutters nobody has opened in years come out packed with leaves and debris, and a blockage at the elbow can hide structural damage. Guards we have to lift and reseat add a step. We flush every downspout and check the water flow at the outlet, and downspout flushing, flow testing and cleanup are included and are never billed as extras. The crew does not call a downspout clean until the water runs clear at the bottom. If anything changes the job, you hear it before work starts, never on the invoice.
Our crew has cleaned a lot of gutter systems across Burbank, and the ones that cost more to clean are almost always the ones that went a long time without service. Every gutter system we open shows how long it has gone without service, and the buildup usually tells the story. A clog that has been building for a season can back rainwater over the edge and away from the drainage path, and the crew often has to work the buildup out of the lower elbows before a flush will run clean. We photograph what we find in every run and tell you what it means for the next visit. Text us a photo of the front of the house and we will give you a starting point by 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 Burbank customers book twice a year: once in the spring, after the seed and pollen drop, and once in the fall, after the last leaves are down. When we open a gutter here in the spring we usually find seed casings and pollen paste packed into the downspout elbows, and when we open one in the fall it is the wet leaf mat that has to come out before the water can flow. Houses that skipped the fall visit are the ones where we find a run that has begun to sag or pulled loose by the following spring, and the fascia behind it can rot before anyone sees it. A clean run in the fall is easier to keep than one that has sagged by spring, and the gutters and downspouts have far less to hold.
Under heavy tree cover, with big trees hanging over the roof, our customers are usually on a schedule of every three to four months, because needles, grit and the odd twig pack the downspouts between visits. Houses with few or no trees can often get by with one cleaning a year in late fall. Gutters with gutter guards still need the surface cleared, just less often. Gutters near a busy road or a construction site collect more grit, which is one more reason to keep the schedule tight.
Regular gutter cleaning, even on a short schedule, is what keeps the buildup from forming in the first place, and each visit includes debris removal. Regular gutter maintenance is a calendar habit, not a crisis visit. Burbank homes with trees overhead tend to need that schedule most, so it is worth asking us to clean your gutters on the same date each year.
On a Burbank street with mature trees, the difference between two houses on the same block is usually the canopy. A house with no trees overhead can stay clean on a twice-a-year schedule with very little work each visit, while a house under the canopy needs a visit every three to four months to keep water moving. Heavy rainfall widens that gap, because a clogged run overflows faster once the storm comes in. After the first visit we tell you which tier your lot actually needs, so you are not guessing at 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 crew works across Burbank CA and the surrounding areas, covering it from our nearest base, so we can usually fit a visit into the calendar without a long wait. Our gutter cleaning process starts with an estimate: you give us the number of stories, your approximate square footage and whether trees hang over the roof, and we quote the job over the phone or by text. A photo of the front of the house and the roofline helps us confirm the access, and it takes less time than describing the house in words. Call (866) 435-6328 to start, and we will keep the next step short.
The two busiest windows on our calendar are late spring and late fall, when seed drop and leaf drop both hit at once, and the leaves from both can fill a rain gutter in a single week. If you want a particular week, call early in those months. We will call you before we come, and nobody needs to be home for the visit, since the crew works outside and does not come inside. Keep your gutters clean now and you will spend less time chasing a slow drain or a leak later. A quick visit now helps protect your home from water damage before the rainy months arrive. Get your gutters on the schedule before the first heavy rainfall, and our gutter services stay simple.
Residential properties and commercial properties ask the same questions on the phone: what is included, and whether the number changes once the crew is up the ladder. A mixed residential and commercial building gets the same answer, and the flush, the cleanup and the photos are all part of one visit that ends with the run clean before the truck leaves. Our cleaning and maintenance visits keep gutters and downspouts moving water away from your home, and that is the whole point.
The number comes from the stories, the square footage and what is in the gutters, and cleaning services in Burbank are quoted the same way. Call (866) 435-6328 or text us a photo of the front of the house and we will quote it from there.
Our customers here usually book two cleanings a year, in late spring and in late fall, and a regular gutter cleaning schedule is the simplest way to keep to it. If you wait past the fall leaf drop, we often find the buildup has already started to sag the runs by the next spring, and that is where gutter maintenance turns into a repair.
Same-day depends on our calendar that week, since each gutter cleaning service goes onto the crew's route that week. Most slots come up within the week, and we confirm a date when you call.
No. A homeowner does not have to wait around, because our crew works outside, does not come inside and sends photos of every run before the truck leaves, so you can see the gutters came out clean. Leave the side gate unlocked and keep pets inside while the ladders are up.
Yes, we flush every downspout and flow-test it, and a stubborn clog gets cleared before we sign off on the run. Checking a buried drain line is a separate job, and we quote it before anyone touches it.
Yes. On our jobs we find seed casings and pollen sitting on top of the guards and grit underneath, and a heavy rainfall soaks that mat until water runs over the front edge. We clear the surface, leave it clean, and check the flow on the gutters and downspouts, though the visits are usually less frequent.
A clean gutter that still spills in the rain usually has a slope or capacity problem, not a clog problem, and water that keeps spilling can show up as a leak at the eave. Send us a short video of it in the rain and we will tell you what it is, without selling you a second cleaning.
It should not. If we find something that changes the job, you hear about it and agree to it before the crew starts work.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
