Our Los Angeles gutter cleaning crew will clean your gutters on every visit, with every downspout flushed and flow-tested, leaves and grit hauled away, and photos of every run before we leave. The price comes from your stories, the size of the house and the tree cover over the roof, and the number we give on the phone is the number on the invoice. Most of our Los Angeles customers book in the spring and fall, and we have been on those houses enough to know what the season leaves behind. Call (866) 435-6328 for a quote.
Quoted from stories, size and tree cover, over the phone, with nothing added once the crew is on the roof.
Los Angeles homeowners ask us about gutter cleaning services more than anything else, and the price depends on how many stories the house has, how much square footage the house covers, and what is packed into 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. Companies that price by the linear foot land in a similar place per foot of run, but the stories and the buildup usually decide the total.
What moves the quote on our jobs is what the crew finds once the ladder is up. A third story or a steep pitch we cannot walk means more equipment and more time. A walk-out basement or a sloped lot raises the effective height of the gutter line at the back of the house. Gutters nobody has opened in years come down as packed muck, and it takes longer to clean out a run that has sat with leaves and grit for a full season. Guards we have to lift and reseat add a step on every run. Downspout flushing, flow testing and debris removal are included and are never billed as extras. If anything changes the job, such as a gutter system pulled loose from the fascia, you hear about it before work starts, never on the invoice.
Here is how our gutter cleaning process goes on a typical visit in Los Angeles. We look at the rain gutter first, the run along the front and the ones that carry water off the upper level. Where a clog has formed at the elbow of a downspout, we open it and clear it from the top so the water flow is restored before we leave, and we check the drainage path to the ground before we move on. When the gutter shows a sag, we note where it starts and whether it pulls away from the fascia, and we photograph it so you can see it too. Leaves and debris go into bags and carried away from your home, not onto the lawn or the walkway. Commercial properties on our route get the same process, scheduled per building.
We have worked on a number of Los Angeles homes where the buildup was heavy enough to cause structural damage to the fascia board behind the gutter. Water that cannot drain sits in the trough and finds its way behind the board, and a slow leak can rot the wood before anyone sees the stain. On one of those houses the rot had reached the soffit above a front window, and the crew photographed it before the job was closed. Regular gutter cleaning on a schedule is the cheapest way we know to protect your home from water damage, and it keeps the water away from the foundation where it belongs.
| 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 in Los Angeles CA, 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. Across California the spring visit is usually in mid to late June and the fall visit lands in late November to December, after the wettest stretch of the year begins to arrive. In spring we find seeds, seed casings and pollen packed into the downspout elbows. In fall we find the leaf load, and when the rain starts the wet leaf mat is what the gutter has to carry. A clog or blockage that starts in spring is usually the one that overflows in the first storm. Every visit includes debris removal. We run residential and commercial work on the same calendar, and if you want to clean your gutters before the wet months, that is the window to book.
Under heavy tree cover, we are up there every three to four months, because needles and grit pack the downspouts between visits, and a run of clogged downspouts overflows at the first hard rain. Where a house has few or no trees, a single visit a year in late fall is enough for most lots. A clean gutter in June can be full again by the first big storm of the season. Gutters with guards still need the surface cleared, and we check the run underneath as well. A gutter that goes unchecked through the rainy season, and through any heavy rainfall, is the one that overflows over the front edge, and that is where the trouble with the fascia usually begins.
How often a gutter needs a clean is a question the calendar answers less well than the lot does. The gutter on a house under a busy road or next to construction collects dust and grit faster than the one out in the open, and the rainwater carries it into the elbows. Our crew sees both on the same street. After the first visit we tell you which tier your lot actually needs, and the estimate for that schedule follows from what we find in the gutter, not from a general rule.
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 cleaning service reaches across Los Angeles from the nearest base, and the neighborhoods we clean most often are the ones where the houses have the most roofline to clean. You can get a quote by phone or text from your stories, the size of the house and whether trees hang over the roof, and a photo of the house front helps if it is easy to send. Lead times depend on the season, and the busiest windows of the year are late spring and late fall, when our calendar fills fastest. Book early if you want to get your gutters done on a specific date in those months, and call (866) 435-6328 to ask about the next open slot.
We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for the visit. The crew works outside and does not come inside, so a short call is enough to confirm the window. If you are scheduling a commercial property, we schedule per building and plan the visit around the tenants. Whether it is a single home or a block of commercial units, the goal is the same: keep your gutters clean, flush every downspout, and protect your home from water damage before the next storm arrives. We serve residential properties on the same schedule as commercial ones, and each homeowner gets the same photos of every run.
We know many of our clients ask for a single appointment that covers the whole job, and that is how we book it. Tell us how many gutters and downspouts you have and we plan the visit to match. Repeat cleanings go on the same calendar as the first one. The landscape around each house decides how much grit and leaf matter comes out, so tell us about the trees and any twig drop from them, and whether the house has gutter guards fitted. Our gutter services cover the surrounding areas of Los Angeles on the same schedule, so if you are close to a neighborhood we already work in, ask us about the slots.
The number comes from the stories and the size of the house, and we give it to you by phone or text. We do not quote a range without seeing the roof, and the number we give is the number on the invoice. To get your gutters quoted, call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the house front.
When our customers here book, it is usually late spring and late fall, after the seed drop and after the last leaves. If you wait past the rainy season, the wet leaf mat is harder to clear, and skipped gutter maintenance shows up as water over the edge. The wettest months are January, February and December, and heavy rainfall in those months is what tests the gutter hardest.
Most slots come up within the week, and we confirm the date when you call. We cannot promise same-day service because it depends on the calendar that week.
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 flush every downspout and watch the water run to the outlet. If a line drains underground and does not run clean, we tell you, and clearing a buried line is quoted separately before anyone touches it.
Yes. Guards keep the leaves out, but on our jobs we find needles, seed casings and grit sitting on top of the guard and pasted into the gaps. The surface still needs to be cleared, the haul-away is part of the same visit, and we check the run underneath as well.
A gutter that is clean and still sheets water over the edge in rain, with no clogged downspouts in the run, has a slope or downspout 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, because cleaning and maintenance cannot fix a grade that is wrong.
It should not. The number we quote on the phone is the number on the invoice. If the crew finds something that changes the job, you hear about it and agree to it before they start.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
