Our own crew leaves gutters clean in Key Largo, every downspout flushed and flow-tested, debris 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 roof, and the number we give you on the phone is the number on the invoice. Call (866) 435-6328 and we will set the date. Across Florida, most of our customers book in mid to late April and again in November to December, and we run the same spring and fall schedule here.
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. Before the crew is out, you can get your gutters quoted over the phone or by text from those three things, and the number we quote is the number we charge. Clean gutters with no buildup are the easiest quote we give. Every quote we write works the same way, and repeat cleanings on the same house are priced from those three things too. Companies that price per linear foot land in a similar place, but on our jobs the stories and the buildup decide the number far more than the run length does.
What moves the quote on our jobs is usually one of five things. A third story or a steep pitch takes longer and more care. A walk-out basement or a sloped lot raises how high the gutters sit off the ground. Gutters nobody has opened in years come out packed with compacted buildup and clogs in the elbows, and a twig wedged in a corner can hold a whole run back. Any run that has started to leak gets a closer look before we call the job done. Gutter guards we have to lift and reseat add a step to every gutter run. Downspout flushing, flow testing and debris removal are included and never billed as extras. Anything that changes the job gets raised before work starts, never on the invoice.
The gutter cleaning process stays the same on every job, and the quote holds when we get on the ladder because the number was built from the same three things we see from the ground. A homeowner with a two-story house and a modest tree line gets a clean, flat quote, while a home under a heavy canopy with a steep back run sits higher, and we say so on the phone before you book. Ask for a text of the front of the house and we can usually sharpen the number before the crew is out. Many homes bundle cleaning and maintenance into one visit, so the crew checks the gutters and downspouts while the ladders are up. That keeps gutter maintenance on schedule without a second trip.
| 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 customers book in spring and fall, once after the seed and pollen drop and once after the last leaves come down. Across Florida the spring visit usually falls in mid to late April and the fall visit in November to December, and our gutter cleaning services follow those windows. In spring the seeds, seed casings and pollen paste pack the downspout elbows and form clogs at the outlet. In fall, leaves and debris sit in the trough through the rainy season, and August through October bring heavy rainfall, so rainwater has nowhere to go once the trough is full.
Under heavy tree cover and a dense landscape, a gutter system needs a visit every three to four months, because needles and grit pack the outlets between visits. Keeping up with regular gutter cleaning stops wet grit from sitting in the trough long enough to cause rot and structural damage to the fascia. A run that starts to sag usually means the trough has been full too long. Clean gutters keep water away from the fascia. A clean gutter in April can still be packed by November, so across Key Largo the schedule follows the trees more than the calendar. Homes with few or no trees do well with one visit a year in late fall, and a rain gutter with little overhead cover rarely needs more. Gutters with guards still need the surface cleared, just less often, and the schedule follows what we find when we open them.
Here is how the pattern plays out on real jobs. One homeowner with no trees near the house books once a year, and the gutters come out clean every time. Another homeowner under a mature canopy is on the three to four month schedule, because clogged downspouts show up faster than the trough fills. After the first visit we tell you which tier your lot actually needs, flag any clog we find on the photos, and flush every downspout on each visit. That becomes your gutter maintenance plan.
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 crew offers cleaning services in Key Largo from the nearest base, and every gutter cleaning service we book for Key Largo homes and surrounding areas is scheduled the same way. Send us your stories, your approximate square footage and whether trees hang over the house, and we send a quote by phone or text. A photo of the house front helps if it is easy to take. Most slots come up within the week, and we confirm the date when you call.
The two busy windows of the year fill first, which is the spring window after the seed drop and the fall window before the rainy season settles in. Booking early keeps you on the date you want, and when you keep your gutters clean between visits the next booking is easier to fit. A clean trough with working drainage is what every visit is for. The crew runs a flush through each outlet and checks the water flow, so rain keeps water away from your home. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for exterior work. Booking calendars cover residential and commercial properties alike, and residential properties see the same openings a building manager does. Call (866) 435-6328 to get on the calendar.
Quotes in Key Largo FL come from the stories and the size of the house, and we give them by phone or text. We do not guess from the street, so tell us the stories and the square footage and we build the estimate from there.
Across Florida, our customers book in mid to late April after the seed and pollen drop, and again in November to December after the leaves are down. If you wait past the fall window, the wet leaf mat sits in the trough through the rain and the downspouts clog before spring, so clean your gutters before the rain sets in.
Same-day depends on the day. We also book homes in surrounding areas on the same calendar, and most slots come up within the week. We confirm a date when you call so you are never guessing about when the crew shows up.
No. Our crew works outside, does not come inside, and sends photos of every run and downspout to your phone before the truck leaves. The crew leaves every run clean. Leave the side gate unlocked and keep pets inside while the ladders are up, and that is the whole list.
Yes, we check the gutters and downspouts, flush every downspout, and watch it until it runs clean at the bottom. Where a downspout feeds an underground line, we check that water leaves at the outlet and tell you if a blockage is holding it back. Clearing a buried line is a separate job and gets quoted before anyone touches it.
Yes. On our jobs guards keep leaves out, but needles, seed casings and shingle grit still sit on top of the guard and mat once they are wet, so the surface gets cleared and the guards get reseated. The schedule is usually longer than an open system, but it does not go to zero, because the goal stays the same: protect your home from water damage.
A gutter that is clean and still sheets water over the edge in rain has a slope or downspout-size problem, not a buildup problem. Gutters exist to keep water away from your home, and rainwater that cannot reach a downspout spills over the front edge at the roofline instead. Send us a photo or short video of it in the rain and we will tell you what it is. We will not sell a second cleaning for a slope problem.
It should not. Our gutter services are quoted from stories, size and tree cover, and anything that would change the job gets raised 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.
