Our own crew cleans gutters and downspouts around town, every downspout flushed and flow-tested, everything hauled off, and photos of every run on your phone 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 homeowners book in spring and fall, and we keep the calendar open for both. Call (866) 435-6328 to book your date.
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 sitting in the gutters. We give an estimate over the phone or by text from those three things, and the number we quote is the number we charge. Some gutter cleaning service providers price by the linear foot, which lands in a similar place once you run the numbers, but we would rather you know the full number before we climb.
On our jobs in Shafter homes, the things that move the quote are a third story or a roof too steep to walk, a walk-out basement or sloped lot that raises the effective height of the roofline, gutters that have not been opened in years and are packed with compacted buildup, and guards we have to lift and reseat. Downspout flushing, flow testing, water flow checks and debris removal are included and never billed as extras. If anything changes the job, you hear it before work starts, never on the invoice.
Here is what we have seen on a recent job. A two-story house on a lot with heavy tree cover had a rain gutter that was running over at one corner, and the crew found the clog sat a full elbow down the downspout where the buildup was dense. Flushing cleared it and the flow test ran clean, and the photos show it. Another job had a sag in a run that looked like a gutter problem but came from clogged downspouts pulling water back against the fascia until the wood started to leak. Clearing the downspout fixed the drainage, and the photos show the run comes out clean at the bottom. Neither of these cases changed the price once we were on the ladder, because we told the customer what we would look for on the phone and then looked for it.
Gutters with leaves and grit packed in them are also where we find the structural damage that the homeowner did not know about. Clearing it early keeps water away from your home and keeps the home from water damage, which is the whole reason a clean run is worth the visit. Commercial properties on this list are quoted per building, and residential properties are quoted by stories and size.
| 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 in Shafter CA book two cleanings a year, once in the spring after seed and pollen drop and once in the fall after the last leaves come down. Across California the spring visit lands in mid to late June and the fall visit in late November to December, and that timing holds for most houses in this area.
In spring the gutter elbows fill with seeds, seed casings and pollen paste, and a clog that starts there shows up as rainwater running over the front edge in the first heavy rainfall. In fall it is the leaf load. We have had freeze risk here, so when we open a gutter in November the leaf mat is often wet and packed, and by March the runs that skipped the fall visit are the ones that sag or pull loose from the fascia under the weight of ice.
Under heavy tree cover, or near a busy road or construction, we see blockage in the downspouts between visits, so our customers move to regular gutter cleaning every three to four months. With few or no trees, once a year in late fall is enough. Gutter guards cut down how often the gutter fills, but the surface still needs clearing, so guarded gutters go on the slower schedule with that step kept in.
After the first visit we tell you which tier your lot actually needs, so you know when to clean your gutters next. We put the reasoning in the photos so you can see it.
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 services cover the area from the nearest base, and we work across Shafter and the surrounding areas. Booking Shafter gutter cleaning starts with a quote by phone or text from stories, size and tree cover, and a photo of the house front if it is easy to send. That is the gutter cleaning process: quote, date, crew, photos. Lead time is set by the calendar that week, and we confirm the date when you call. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for the visit.
Our calendar fills in two busy windows each year, the weeks after seed and pollen drop in spring and the weeks after the last leaves in fall. Booking early in those windows keeps your slot, it is the simplest way to keep your gutters clean, and it helps protect your home through the season. Most homeowners set a reminder for both visits so the schedule runs without them having to think about it.
We do residential and commercial work with the same booking, so ask for gutter services on any building you own. Call (866) 435-6328 or text us a photo of the house front and we will book a date. Send the photo, we give you the number, and we put the crew on the schedule.
The number comes from stories and size, and we give it to you by phone or text. We do not guess on the phone and we do not quote a range we cannot back up.
Our customers usually book in late June, after the spring seed drop, and in late November or December, after the last leaves. Book early and get your gutters on the calendar before it fills. Waiting past those dates means we find the leaf mat wet and packed, and that is when the runs start to sag.
Same-day cleaning services in Shafter depend on the calendar that week. Most slots come up within the week, and we confirm the exact date when you call.
No. Our crew works outside, steps around the landscape beds, 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 check that the water is leaving at the outlet. Clearing a buried line is a separate job and we quote it before we touch it.
Yes. Leaves, needles, seed casings, the odd twig and grit get past the guards and sit on top, then pack underneath. Guards change the gutter maintenance schedule, but they do not end cleaning and maintenance. The surface still gets cleared, the gutter comes out clean, and the downspout still gets flushed.
A clean gutter system that still runs over in the rain has a slope or a downspout-size problem, not a debris problem. A run that has been spilling for a while may already have rot in the fascia, so text us a short video in the rain and we will tell you what it is, and we will not sell you a second cleaning for it.
It should not. If we find something that changes the job, we stop, tell you what we found, and agree on the change before we continue. The number we quote is the number we charge.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
