Our own crew cleans gutters in Holiday, every downspout flushed and flow-tested, the leaves bagged and hauled off, and photos of every run before we leave. The price comes from your stories, your home's size and how much tree cover sits over the house, and the number we give you on the phone is the number on the invoice. Across Florida, most of our customers book in the spring and fall, and that is when we are busiest.
Quoted from stories, size and tree cover, over the phone, with nothing added once the crew is on the roof.
The price depends on how many stories the house has, its size, and what is sitting in the gutters and downspouts. Our cleanings in Holiday, FL are quoted over the phone or by text from those three things, and the number we quote is the number we charge. Every homeowner wants that number before anyone climbs a ladder, so that is how we start. Some companies price by the linear foot, which lands in a similar place once the house is measured, but we would rather give you one number you can check against the invoice.
On our jobs, a few things push the quote up. A third story or a roof too steep to walk takes longer and needs more setup. A walk-out basement or a sloped lot raises the effective height of the gutter line, so the back run sits farther up than it looks from the yard. Gutters nobody has opened in years come down packed solid with old leaves and grit, and guards we have to lift and reseat add time. Downspout flushing, flow testing and debris removal are part of the job, never billed as extras. A twig or packed clog at a downspout elbow gets cleared from both ends before we call the run done, and once a run is clean we check the drainage at the outlet. If anything changes the job once we are up, you hear about it before work starts, not on the invoice.
When we open a gutter that has gone a long time without a cleaning, we often find a leak at a joint or a run that has started to pull away from the fascia. We photograph it and put it in the report. Leaving the gutter clean is the work we do; we are not selling a repair from the ladder. Regular gutter maintenance keeps the small problems from turning into structural damage, and a regular gutter cleaning process is the cheapest way we know to look after a home.
Houses with a deep roofline or trees overhanging the back of the house take the hardest hit from heavy rainfall, and the cleaning and maintenance schedule should reflect that. Rainfall runs about 54.3 inches a year, and every drop has to carry water away from the house. We walk the lot with you on the first visit, leave the gutters clean, and tell you what we see. If you want a number before we come out, text us a photo of the front of the house, and we will get back to you with a number and a date.
| 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 customers we see here book twice a year, once in the spring after the seed and pollen drop, and once in the fall after the last leaves come down. Across Florida the pattern is much the same, though the timing shifts a little with the weather. The spring visit falls in mid to late April across Florida, and the fall visit runs November to December. Twice a year keeps the troughs clean, and it is the simplest way to protect your home from water damage. A schedule like that is how you keep your gutters working the way they were built to.
In spring we find the gutter system packed with seeds, seed casings and pollen paste, most of it stuck at the elbows of the downspouts. In fall it is the leaf load, a wet mat of leaves and debris two inches deep in the troughs that holds water against the fascia and the edge of the roof. On houses that skipped the fall visit we find runs that have sagged and pulled loose by the time spring comes around. Under heavy tree cover, our customers book every three to four months, because the needles and grit pack the downspout between visits. With few or no trees, a visit once a year in late fall keeps the runs clean. A heavily planted landscape close to the eave sheds more than an open lot, and gutters with guards get a lighter visit, but the surface still needs a clean.
When we open a gutter here after a long gap, the first question is how long the material has been sitting there, and whether the gutter was ever kept clean. A rain gutter that has been left alone for a year holds more than a season of material, and the rainwater has nowhere to go but over the front, and the fascia behind it starts to rot. That is a clog in its simplest form, and it is the reason the schedule matters more than the price.
After the first visit we tell you which of those tiers your lot actually needs, what a clean run looks like on your house, and we write it down so you have it next year.
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 cleaning services in Holiday run out of the nearest base, and the crew covers the city as a whole rather than one neighborhood at a time. Our gutter cleaning services are for residential properties, and that includes holiday homes. For commercial properties, or a job that is both residential and commercial, call first so we can confirm whether it is one we take. To book, call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the house front if that is easier. We will give you an estimate from your stories, your home's size and the tree cover over the house, and we confirm a date when we have it. Our calendar fills fastest in spring and fall, so call early if you want to get your gutters on the schedule before the rush.
We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for the visit. If the calendar is open, the lead time can be short, but we do not promise a particular day until we have checked it. For regular gutter cleaning, we will hold the same window each visit so your calendar stays predictable, and you can ask us to clean your gutters on that schedule from the first call. Where buildup has packed a downspout, the crew flushes it from the top and checks the water flow at the outlet again before leaving.
Our gutter services are priced from the stories, the size of the house and what is in the gutters, and we give the number by phone or text. We do not quote a figure without those three things, so call (866) 435-6328 or send a photo of the front of the house and we will give you one.
Most of our customers book once in the spring and once in the fall. When someone waits too long in the fall, we find the leaf mat compacted, a blockage at the elbow, and the runs starting to sag by the time the weather turns. Across Florida, late spring and late fall are the windows we see most.
Most slots come up within the week, and we confirm a date when you call. We do not promise same-day service until we have checked the calendar for that day.
No. Our crew works outside, does not come inside, and sends photos of every run and downspout to your phone before the truck leaves, leaving the yard clean behind them. Leave the side gate unlocked and keep pets inside while the ladders are up.
Yes. The crew flushes every downspout and checks the outlet where it drains, so you know the gutters and downspouts are carrying water away. If a line runs underground and water is not coming out the far end, we tell you, and clearing a buried line is quoted as a separate job before anyone touches it.
Yes. Guards stop the leaves but not the needles, seeds or grit that settle on top and turn into a paste when wet. We lift the panels, leave the trough clean underneath, flush each downspout and reseat the guards, and we price a guarded system as its own job.
A gutter that is clean and still spills over the front in rain has a slope, capacity or downspout-size problem rather than a cleaning problem. Send us a short video in the rain and we will tell you what it is. We do not sell a second cleaning for a slope issue.
Only if something changes the job, and if it does, you hear about it and agree to it before work starts. 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.
