Our own crew cleans gutters in Golden CO, every downspout flushed and flow-tested, debris hauled off, 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 hangs over the roof, and the number we give on the phone is the number on the invoice. Across Colorado, most of our customers book in the spring and fall. A regular clean helps protect your home from water damage, and we keep those visits on the calendar.
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. A homeowner gets one quote built from those three things, by phone or text, and the number we quote is the number we charge. Other gutter cleaning services price by the linear foot and land in a similar place per foot, but the foot count rarely tells the whole story on a roofline with corners and valleys. This page prices houses, so commercial properties get a separate estimate.
What moves the quote on our jobs is what the crew finds once it is up the ladder. A third story or a roof too steep to walk takes longer and needs a boom or scissor lift. A walk-out basement or a sloped lot puts the back run far higher than it looks from the yard. Gutters nobody has opened in years hold a buildup of compacted debris that takes time to break loose, and guards we have to lift and reseat add a step to every run. We flush every downspout, and debris removal is part of the quote, never billed as an extra. If anything changes the job, you hear it before work starts, never on the invoice.
On Golden homes we see the same pattern again and again: a gutter that looks light from the ground is packed with seed casings, grit and the odd twig at the low end, and the clog sits where the downspout meets the elbow. Clogged downspouts are usually the cause, and poor drainage at the outlet, where the water flow backs up, is why a clean gutter can still spill. A sag at one joint usually means the run has been holding water for a season, so we check the hangers while we clear it. Where a gutter is still overflowing after a clean, the cause is usually slope or outlet size, and we say so rather than selling a second visit. Recent work on a two-story house with a heavy canopy over the back run is a good example of how the quote gets built: one visit, every downspout flushed, and a short note on the rain gutter that needed a new hanger. The ground around the foundation stayed dry after the first storm, which is the outcome that matters for structural damage and water away from your home.
| One story | Two stories | Three stories or steep | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1,500 sq ft | from $150 | from $195 | from $255 |
| 1,500 to 2,500 sq ft | from $170 | from $225 | from $295 |
| Over 2,500 sq ft | from $200 | from $265 | from $345 |
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 Golden customers book twice a year, in late May or June after the spring seed and pollen drop finishes, and again in October or early November after the last leaves are down. In May the downspout elbows are packed with seeds and pollen paste. In November it is the wet mat of leaves and debris, and on houses that skipped the fall visit we see runs by March that have sagged under the weight of ice. That is the gutter clog cycle we work against. Heavy rainfall in April, May and June is the wettest stretch here, so a clear trough matters most right then.
Under heavy tree cover, we are on every three to four months, because needles and grit clog the runs again between cleanings, and a single clog can back rainwater onto the roofline and start a leak at the joint. A regular gutter cleaning like that keeps the trough clean and the outlets open. With few or no trees, once a year in late fall is enough for most houses. Guards reduce how often the gutter system needs attention, but they do not remove the need to clear the surface, so a guarded house still gets a visit. Anything that would require a blockage to be cleared past the outlet is priced separately, and we tell you before we start.
Gutter cleaning services are the regular part of the job, and the estimate for anything beyond them comes from what we see on the first visit. If you are asking how often to clean your gutters, that first visit answers it. Ask for the estimate by phone at (866) 435-6328 or text us a photo of the roofline, and we will tell you which tier your lot actually needs. After the first visit we know what the calendar should look like, and so will you. This calendar is for residential properties, and residential and commercial jobs get separate scheduling.
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 clean gutters across Golden and the surrounding areas from our nearest base. Our Golden gutter cleaning crew knows the houses on the older blocks, the newer subdivisions and the lots where the landscape and the trees come right up to the roof. Cleaning services in Golden start with a phone quote, and the gutter services for Golden homeowners work the same way. To get your gutters on the schedule, call (866) 435-6328 or text, and we will quote from stories, size and tree cover, with a photo of the house front if it is easy to send. The lead time for a slot is shown when you call, and we confirm the date before we come. Two windows fill fastest on our calendar: late spring and early fall.
Nobody needs to be home for a visit. We call before we come, and the crew works from the outside of the house, with the ladder set off the gutter lip and the siding. Our gutter cleaning process runs in the same order on every job: outside work, then we flush every downspout, then photos of every run sent to your phone before the truck leaves. The point of a regular clean is to keep water flow moving away from the house, so the gutters and downspouts stay clear and drain. Keeping water out from behind the fascia stops fascia rot, a problem that takes far longer to fix than a clean takes to do. Between visits, keep your gutters clean and you protect the home from water damage.
The number comes from stories and size, and we give it over the phone or by text. Flushing every downspout and hauling away the debris are both included in the quote.
Booking a clean in late May or June and again in October or early November is the pattern most of our customers follow. Waiting past the leaf fall in the fall visit is where the trouble starts on houses with trees.
Most slots come up within the week, and we confirm the date when you call.
No. Our crew works outside, does not come inside, and sends photos of every run before the truck leaves.
Yes, we flush every downspout and check that water leaves at the outlet. Clearing a buried line is a separate job and is quoted before we touch it.
Yes. On our jobs we find surface debris and needle mats on top of guards, and the gutter system only works when water gets in. Guarded houses still need cleaning and maintenance, and the visit is shorter, not gone.
Send us a photo or video in the rain. A gutter that is clean and still overflowing has a slope or outlet problem, and we tell you what it is.
Only if something changes the job, and you hear it before work starts. Gutter maintenance quotes hold at the number we gave you, and that is the number on the invoice.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
