Our own crew cleans gutters in Alpharetta GA, every downspout flushed and flow-tested, leaves bagged and hauled off, and photos of every run before we leave. The price comes from stories, the size of the house and tree cover, and the number we give on the phone is the number on the invoice. Most Alpharetta homeowners book in spring and fall. Clean gutters protect your home from water damage, and we have been doing this across Georgia long enough to know which runs fill first. 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.
Alpharetta gutter cleaning is priced on stories, square footage and how much leaves and debris are sitting in the gutters. We quote it by phone or text from those three things, and the number we quote is the number we charge. Companies that price by linear foot tend to land in a similar place per run, but the stories and the pitch are what actually drive the time on the ladder.
On our jobs, the things that move a quote are a third story or a pitch too steep to walk, a walk-out basement that puts the back run well up the slope, gutters nobody has opened in years, and guards we have to lift and reseat before anything else happens. A heavy gutter clog from years of buildup takes longer than a light one, and a run with sag takes longer again because the water flow has to be checked against the slope. Downspout flushing, flow testing and debris removal are included in the quote and are never billed as extras. If something changes the job once we are on site, you hear it before work starts, never on the invoice.
Here is what we have seen on the houses we clean around Alpharetta homes. Most of the back runs that overflow are not the ones with the worst leaves; they are the ones with clogged downspouts low down, where the water has nowhere to go but over the edge and into the landscape beds. A run that looks clean from the ground can still drain badly, especially when a twig or a blockage sits in the elbow. Cleaning the trough alone does not fix that drainage problem. Our crew checks the flow at the outlet of every downspout, and where water does not leave the gutter system, we say so in the photos and tell you what we found. Gutter cleaning services of this kind are only as good as the check at the bottom of the pipe, which is why we do it on every house, every visit.
Residential and commercial work is quoted differently, but the gutter cleaning process is the same for commercial properties and homes: the gutter has to drain, the water has to leave the house, and the number has to match the work. For residential properties we ask about stories and tree cover first, then the footprint of the house, and we get a photo of the front of the house by text if that is easy for you. That is usually enough to give you a firm number on the call. Most residential properties here book in spring and fall. If we need to see a run that is hard to reach from the ground, we say that up front and quote it as a separate line you can accept or decline.
| 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.
On our Alpharetta jobs, most customers book spring and fall, twice a year. Across Georgia the spring visit usually lands in mid to late April, after the seed and pollen drop, and the fall visit runs November to early December, after the last leaves come down. When we open a gutter here in April, we find seeds and seed casings packed into the elbows, the odd twig wedged in a downspout, and a pollen paste that holds water against the trough. In the fall it is the wet leaf mat, and on houses that skipped that visit we see runs that have started to sag, pull loose or leak by the next spring. Regular gutter cleaning on that schedule is how you keep your gutters clean and draining.
Freeze risk is part of why the fall visit matters here. When the first ice comes, rainwater trapped in a clogged run can freeze at the roofline and push the shingles up from underneath, and an ice dam in December is a much bigger job than a leaf mat in November. Before the first hard freeze, we would rather clean your gutters and clear the run than explain the damage after it.
Under heavy tree cover, big trees over the house, our customers book cleanings every three to four months, because needles and grit pack the downspout between visits and a clog that starts in March shows up as an overflow in July. With few or no trees, once a year in late fall is usually enough, because leaves and debris build up slower and a run that starts clean stays clean much longer. Houses near a busy road or construction are on the shorter schedule for the same reason: grit settles into the trough and blocks drainage faster than leaves do. Gutter guards change the work but do not remove it; we still clear the surface, flush every downspout and check that water is getting in, and the visit is usually a little shorter.
The first visit gives you a firm estimate and tells us which tier your lot actually needs. Alpharetta averages about 55 inches of rain a year, and the wettest months are March, July and December, so the schedule is built to keep your gutters flowing through those. We look at the gutters and downspouts, the eave line and the whole gutter system, and we tell you what we found on the photos before we leave. After that first visit, the schedule is set around what we see, not around a calendar we picked in advance.
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 has cleaned gutters across Alpharetta, and we cover the surrounding areas from the nearest base without fuss. Booking is simple: you call (866) 435-6328 or text, we ask about stories, the size of the house and tree cover, and we get a photo of the front of the house if that is easy. From there we quote the job and give you a window. A homeowner who books early has more choice of window, and the whole gutter cleaning process starts with that one call. Lead times depend on the season, and the busy weeks in spring and fall fill quickly, so it helps to book as soon as you think about it. If you want to get your gutters on the calendar before the next storm, book now.
When we arrive, we call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for a clean, quick visit. The crew works outside, uses a boom or scissor lift where the roofline needs one, keeps the mess away from your home, and leaves the yard clean before the truck pulls out. The crew also sends photos of every run and downspout to your phone before the truck leaves. If a slot is tight, we tell you the next open day rather than squeezing you into a rushed visit. Our calendar fills with cleanings in the two busy windows of the year, late spring and late fall, so those are the weeks to book early.
Gutter maintenance between visits is the other half of the job, because cleaning and maintenance only hold if the downspouts stay open. A few months after cleaning, most homeowners are glad to have a quick check of the drain outlets and the eave line, and we can add that to the next booking. Our gutter services include that check on request. For a house that has had a heavy rainfall overnight or a recent overflow, text us a photo and we will tell you whether it is a clog that needs a visit, a leak at a joint, or a slope problem that needs a different conversation.
The number comes from stories and square footage, and we give it to you by phone or text before anything is booked. Once we have those, you have the number, and it is the number on the invoice.
Most of our customers here book in late spring, after the seed and pollen drop, and in late fall, after the last leaves. Waiting past the first hard freeze can turn a leaf mat into an ice dam at the eave, which is a much bigger job.
Most slots come up within the week, and we confirm the exact date when you call. We do not promise same-day in every case, because the calendar depends on the season.
No. Our crew works outside and does not come inside. Before the visit, check that the side gate is open, move any cars that block the runs, and keep the dog inside while the ladders are up.
Yes. We flush every downspout with water and watch the water come out clean at the bottom, and where a downspout feeds an underground drain line, we check that water is leaving at the outlet. Clearing a buried line is a separate job and we quote it before we touch it. Clear downspouts are how you keep water away from the foundation and out of the landscape.
Yes, but less often. On our jobs a rain gutter under guards still collects needles threaded through the mesh, seed casings sitting on top, and grit settling underneath. We clear the surface, lift the panels and leave the trough clean underneath, then check that water is getting in.
A gutter that is clean and still spilling in the rain has a slope or downspout problem, not a leaf problem, and left alone that can turn into fascia rot and structural damage. Text us a clip of the overflow while it is raining and we will tell you what is causing it.
It should not. If we find something that changes the job, such as a run that is much more packed than we expected, a clogged run that needs a second pass, or a guard that has to come off, we tell you before any work starts, and you decide whether to go ahead.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
