Our own crew cleans gutters here, every downspout flushed and flow-tested, the mess hauled off, and photos of every run before we leave. The price comes from stories, size and tree cover, and the number we give you on the phone is the number on the invoice. Most of our customers book in spring and fall, when seed drop and leaf fall have filled what the rain needs to move through.
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 work out an estimate over the phone or by text from those three things, and the number we give is the number we charge. Gutter cleaning services that price by length land in a similar place per linear foot, but on our jobs the building matters more than the run. Gutters and downspouts get priced together, since the same crew handles both on one visit. Plenty of owners try to clean your gutters from a ladder on a Saturday and quit at the first elbow, which is where the clog usually sits.
What moves the price is what the crew finds. A third story or a roof too steep to walk means a boom or scissor lift and more time on the ground. A walk-out basement or sloped lot raises the effective height of the roofline. Gutters nobody has opened in years come out packed with compacted leaf mat, and that takes longer than a light clog. Guards we have to lift and reseat add time as well. A twig or a wad of seed casings at an elbow can stop the water flow as surely as a full trough. Downspout flushing, flow testing and haul-off are included and never billed as extras. Debris removal is part of the price and is never a line item. Anything that changes the job is raised before work starts, never on the invoice. Poor drainage usually starts at one elbow, so the crew checks where it begins before it prices the rest.
On our jobs, the biggest change was a two-story house with a heavy tree canopy over the back run, where the gutters had gone a long time without a visit. The crew found a clog at the first elbow of each downspout and a sag in the rear run that held standing water. We flushed every downspout, cleared the buildup, and checked the water flow at the outlets before we came down. Once the runs were clean, the crew took the photos and the job was done. The number we gave on the phone was the number we charged, because the stories and the tree cover were already in it. Residential properties and residential and commercial work both follow the same rule: the crew looks first, then the number is set. Country Club homes with big trees overhead see this most, and homeowners here often notice the first sign as a low run, not a clog. Left alone, that low run can turn into structural damage at the fascia.
| 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 customers book twice a year. Across California, the spring visit lands in mid to late June, after seed and pollen drop, and the fall visit falls in December to early January, after the last leaves are down. In June the downspout elbows are packed with seeds and pollen paste. By December it is the wet leaf mat, and leaves and debris left in the trough through a wet December turn into that mat. On houses that skipped the fall visit we see low runs and pulled gutters by the next rainy season. Heavy rainfall here comes mostly in January and February, so a clog left until then backs water up under the roofline. Rainwater that cannot leave the trough spills behind it, and that is how the roofline starts to rot. A clean run in June is not a clean run in January, which is why the two visits are not interchangeable.
Under heavy tree cover, every three to four months, because needles and grit pack the outlets between visits. With few or no trees, once a year in late fall is enough. Gutter guards change the schedule, usually less often, but the surface still gets cleared, and the gutter still gets checked for blockage. Regular gutter cleaning on the spring and fall schedule keeps a rain gutter from sitting flat, since a flat run holds water. The two cleanings a year are booked as a set, so the second visit does not slip.
After the first visit we tell you which tier your lot actually needs. Keep your gutters clear and the water away from the foundation and the landscape beside it, which is how you protect your home from water damage. Clear runs send the water away from your home, not down the siding. We schedule the spring and fall visits as a set, so if you want an estimate for the calendar, call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the front of the house.
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.
We cover all of it, and the crew works across Country Club from the nearest base. Booking starts with an estimate by phone or text from stories, size and tree cover, and a photo of the front of the house if that is easy. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for the work. Our calendar fills in the two busy windows of the year, mid to late June and early winter, so the earlier you ask, the more likely we can match the date you want. Calls from the surrounding areas go through the same process, and the number is the same either way.
Once the date is set, the visit is short and the crew stays outside. The gutter cleaning process is simple: an estimate, a date, a crew that works the runs, and photos on your phone. If you have a gutter guard system, we still clear the surface and check the gutter behind it. A gutter system with guards is not exempt from the visit. Clean gutters that do not drain are not finished, and that is what the crew checks before it leaves. Each homeowner gets the same photo report, with every run shown before and after, and the photos show a clean trough at every run that was worked. Homeowners who have had the same gutters for years often ask whether the work is worth the trouble; on our jobs the answer shows up once the runs are open. Call (866) 435-6328 to get on the schedule.
Gutter maintenance is a schedule, not one visit, and cleaning and maintenance are two different jobs. Commercial properties get the same crew and the same photo report. Country Club gutter cleaning is booked the same way whether it is a house or a shop. The gutter services we offer here include downspout flushing, haul-off and a check of the runs. The earlier you get your gutters on the calendar, the better, since the two busy windows fill first.
For a two-story house in Country Club CA, the number comes from the stories and the size of the house, and we give it by phone or text. Our services are priced once, before the crew arrives. The estimate we give is the number on the invoice, so there is no separate charge for flushing or haul-off.
Across California, the spring visit lands in mid to late June, and our fall visits run December to early January. If you wait past the fall visit, we find the wet leaf mat packed into the back run, along with clogged downspouts, and in a freeze the first ice starts at the eave. A leak at a joint usually shows up in the same rain.
We confirm the date when you call, and open slots depend on the season, so ask early. We do not promise same-day unless the crew has an open slot that day. Our crew is one of the cleaning services in Country Club that confirms the date before the truck goes out.
No. The 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 in while the ladders are up. The crew leaves the yard as clean as it found it.
Yes, we flush every downspout, and the water flow is checked at the outlet until it runs clean at the bottom. If a line drains underground, we tell you whether water is leaving the far end; clearing a buried line is a separate job and is priced before anyone touches it.
Yes, less often. Under guards we find needles threaded through and seed casings and grit sitting on top, so the surface still gets cleared and the gutter checked for blockage. Guards keep out most leaves and debris, but the fine stuff still gets through.
A gutter that is clean and still overflows has a slope or downspout-size problem, not a cleaning problem. Send us a photo or a short video in the rain and we tell you what it is; we do not sell a second cleaning for a slope problem. Left alone, that overflow can lead to structural damage at the fascia.
Only if the crew finds something that changes the job, and you hear it and agree to it before work starts. The number 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.
