Our own crew cleans gutters in Commerce, every downspout flushed and flow-tested, debris hauled away, and photos of every run before we leave. The price comes from the number of stories, the size of the house 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 customers here book in spring and fall, and we can give you a quote from the three things above in a single call.
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 homeowners over the phone at (866) 435-6328 or by text from those three things, and the number we quote is the number we charge. Other gutter cleaning services often price by the linear foot and land in a similar place per foot of run, but the quote we give you already covers the whole house.
On our jobs here the same few things move the number. A third story or a pitch too steep to walk takes more time on the ladder and more care on the lift. A walk-out basement or sloped lot raises the effective height of the gutter line, so the back run sits farther up than the front. Gutters that have not been opened in years arrive with a compacted layer of debris, and that is a longer job than a gutter kept clean every season. Guards we have to lift and reseat add a step to every run. Downspout flushing, flow testing and debris removal are included and never billed as extras. If anything we find changes the job, you hear it before work starts, never on the invoice.
Our experience here is specific. On one recent job, the house looked fine from the ground, but the back run had a heavy buildup of leaves and debris, a blockage at the second downspout, and a run that dropped where the bracket had worked loose from years of load. Once we flushed the downspout and checked the water flow, the rain gutter drained clean at every outlet. The owner did not have to pay for any extra work, and the crew photographed the drop and put it in the report. The drop was not something we repaired on that visit, because we do not do repairs; we flagged it so the owner could decide what to do next.
Our crew sees the same patterns across the homes we clean: a leaf mat that holds water against the fascia long enough to rot the board, a twig that wedges into the elbows, and rain running over the edge when clogged downspouts back up. Each of those is a sign that drainage is not moving water away from your home as it should. Cleaning clears the clog, and the flush confirms the gutter system has a clean path to the outlet. If water still runs over after we leave, that usually points to slope or capacity, which we will tell you plainly. We will not sell you a second cleaning for a slope problem.
| 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.
On our jobs most customers book twice a year, once in spring after the seed and pollen drop, and once in fall after the last leaves come down. When we open a gutter here in late spring we usually find seeds and seed casings packed into the elbows and pollen paste sitting on top of the leaf mat. When we open one in fall, we find a wet leaf mat that holds rainwater and, on houses that skipped the fall visit, runs that have started to sag once the heavy rainfall starts. Under heavy tree cover, big trees hanging over the house, our customers are on every three to four months, because needles and grit pack each downspout between visits. With few or no trees, a single cleaning in late fall is usually enough.
The spring and fall visits give us a clean baseline to check against. A gutter that is clean and still overflowing is a different problem from one full of leaves, and the seasonal visit lets us see the difference. We check the roofline, flush each downspout and confirm that water is leaving the house at the outlet. A routine visit helps protect your home from water damage, because it catches a loose hanger or a leak at a seam before either one becomes structural damage.
We do not give one answer for every lot. Guards change how often regular gutter cleaning is needed, though they do not end the job. After the first visit we tell you which tier your lot actually needs, so you are not paying for more cleaning than the house requires or less than it can handle.
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 cleans gutters across the neighborhoods we have worked, and our cleaning services in Commerce CA reach the surrounding areas from the nearest base. Booking the gutter cleaning service starts with an estimate at (866) 435-6328 or by text, based on stories, size and tree cover. The same crew handles residential and commercial work, on residential properties and commercial properties alike. If it is easy for you, send a photo of the house front, because it shows us the pitch and the number of runs before we arrive. Lead time depends on the season and on heavy rainfall, and the two busy windows of the year are late spring and late fall, when the calendar fills fastest. We call before we come and nobody needs to be home. Clean your gutters between visits if you can, and book cleanings in spring and fall; we will tell you when the next gutter maintenance flush is due so the water keeps moving away from your home.
The number comes from stories and size, and we give it to you by phone or text. Our gutter services are priced from the house itself, because the same two-story house can take very different time depending on tree cover and what is in the gutters.
Most of our customers here book in late spring and late fall. If you wait past the fall visit, the wet leaf mat sits in the runs through the rainy months, and on houses that skipped that visit we have found sagging gutters by the wet winter months.
Most slots come up within the week, and we confirm a date when you call (866) 435-6328 to get your gutters on the schedule. We tell you the earliest date we can come when you call, and we set it only once a crew has an open slot for your house.
No, a homeowner does not need to be home. 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, the gutter cleaning process includes flushing gutters and downspouts, clearing any clog we find at the outlet, and checking that water is leaving until the outlet runs clean. If a downspout feeds an underground drain line, we check the outlet and tell you whether water is coming out. Clearing a buried line is a separate job and is quoted before anyone touches it.
Yes. Under guards we find needles from the trees in your landscape threaded through the mesh, seed casings and pollen sitting on top, and grit underneath. The job is shorter with guards, but the surface still needs a clean and the downspout still needs flushing as part of the cleaning and maintenance visit.
Send us a photo or a short video of it in the rain. A gutter that is clean and still overflowing usually has a slope, capacity or downspout-size problem, and we will tell you what it is instead of selling you another cleaning.
It should not. If the crew finds something that changes the job, you hear it and agree to it before they start, never after. The number we quote on the phone is the number on the invoice.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
