Our own crew cleans gutters in Smyrna, flushing every downspout, hauling the debris away and sending photos of every run before we leave. The price comes from your stories, the size of the house and how much tree cover is over the roof, and the number we give on the phone is the number on the invoice. Most of our customers book in spring and fall, and we have been doing it that way for years.
Quoted from stories, size and tree cover, over the phone, with nothing added once the crew is on the roof.
The price for Smyrna gutter cleaning depends on stories, square footage and what is sitting in the gutters. We quote it over the phone or by text from those three things, and the number we quote is the number we charge. Companies that price by the linear foot land in a similar place, but the per-foot math hides the things that actually cost time on the ladder.
On our jobs, a third story or a steep roof that cannot be walked moves the quote first. A walk-out basement or a sloped lot raises the effective height of the back run, so it sits further up than the front. Gutters nobody has opened in years come down packed solid, with buildup at every elbow, and that adds time to every downspout. Guards we have to lift and reseat add a step to every run. Gutters and downspouts get flushed and flow-tested, so drainage is checked from the top of the run to the outlet, and debris removal is included and never billed as an extra. If anything changes the job, we raise it before work starts, never on the invoice.
On one house with heavy tree cover, the gutters were full of leaves and debris, and the clogged downspouts had been backing water toward the foundation for a season. The job was quoted from a photo of the front of the house and confirmed on the phone. The crew cleared every run and made sure to flush every downspout until water ran clear at the bottom. The clog and the sag were both visible from the ground once the mess was out.
Rain gutter problems rarely announce themselves until heavy rainfall. What we see most often is a clog at the elbows and the first few feet of each run, which slows the water flow and lets it spill over the front edge. Water that spills over the edge soaks the fascia first, and that is where rot and structural damage start. Moving water away from your home is the whole point, and a clean run that still overflows is a slope problem, which we will tell you about rather than sell a second cleaning for. Smyrna homes with long runs and a flat section tend to show this first.
Our gutter cleaning services for commercial properties follow the same logic with more lift time, and the quote is per building. Residential and commercial jobs run on that same logic. For a homeowner and for residential properties, the number comes from the same three things: the stories, the size and what the crew finds in the gutter. A clean job always starts with a quote, not a guess. Ask for the estimate by phone at (866) 435-6328, or text a photo of the front of the house if that is easy.
| 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 two cleanings 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 from November to early December, after the last leaves are down. When we open a gutter at the spring visit, we find seed casings and pollen packed into the downspout elbows, and in the fall we find the leaf load along the roofline. On houses that skipped the fall visit, we have seen runs sag or pull loose by the next winter.
Under heavy tree cover, regular gutter cleaning every three to four months is the schedule that keeps up with cleaning and maintenance, because needles, grit and the odd twig pack the downspout between visits and the rainwater stops moving. Houses with few or no trees do fine with one clean a year in late fall. Gutter guards mean fewer clean visits, but the surface still needs clearing, and a guard that sits on a wet mat sheds rain over the edge. Gutter maintenance is the part people skip, and that is where the overflow starts.
A customer with almost no trees overhead stays on the twice-a-year schedule, and the spring visit is the one that clears the seeds before the rain starts to back up. A customer in a shaded lot books every three to four months, because the blockage at the downspout comes back faster than the leaves do. Keep your gutters on the schedule that matches the trees, and we do not guess at which one you are until we have seen the house.
After the first visit we tell you which tier your lot actually needs, so you can clean your gutters on a schedule that fits the house.
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 works across Smyrna from the nearest base, and the gutter services we book cover the surrounding areas too, so the same crew that cleans your gutters is the one that already knows the house from past visits. Every Smyrna gutter cleaning starts with a quote by phone or text. Our gutter cleaning process asks for your stories, the size of the house and how much tree cover is overhead, plus a photo of the front of the house if it is easy to send. We confirm a date when you call, and the lead time depends on the week you ask. Repeat cleanings at the same house are quoted faster, since the crew already has the notes from last time. A single twig at a downspout elbow can start a backup, and the landscape around the house decides how fast leaves collect. The two busy windows of the year are spring and fall, and the calendar fills quickly in those months.
We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for the work. If you want to get your gutters on the calendar before the spring rush, call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the front of the house. A clean now or a clean in the fall both make sense, so tell us when your gutters last came down and we will say which is the better window. Booking a clean is also the easiest way to protect your home from water damage, and a leak at a seam is far easier to catch from the ground than after it has soaked the fascia.
The number comes from the stories, the size of the house and what is in the gutters. We quote it by phone or text, and that number is what you pay. Our cleaning services in Smyrna are priced that way for every house, because the same two-story house can take very different time depending on how much is packed in the gutter.
Across Georgia the spring visit lands in mid to late April, after the seed drop, and the fall visit runs from November to early December, after the leaves are down. A house with a wooded landscape around it may need the fall visit to come earlier. If you wait past the fall visit on a house with trees, we usually find sagging runs and ice-damaged sections by the next winter.
Most slots come up within the week, and we confirm a date when you call. If you need a clean before a storm, say so, and we will tell you the earliest slot our schedule has that day.
No, you do not need to be home. Our crew works outside, 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, every downspout is flushed and flow-tested, and we check that water is leaving at the outlet. If a downspout feeds an underground line that will not clear from the surface, we tell you and quote that work separately. We do not price it into the cleaning.
Yes. On our jobs guards keep leaves out, but the needles, seed casings and grit sit on top of the guard and the wet mat sheds water over the edge. We lift the panels, clean underneath and reseat them, which usually runs shorter than an open system.
A clean gutter that still spills in rain has a slope or capacity problem rather than a debris problem, and the water it throws over the edge is what rots the fascia. Send us a photo or a short video of it in the rain and we will tell you what it is. We do not sell a second cleaning for a slope problem.
It should not. If the crew finds something that changes the job, you hear about it and agree to it before work starts, never on the invoice.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
