Our own crew does the cleaning in Washington. Every downspout is flushed and flow-tested, debris is hauled away, and you get photos of every run before we leave. The price comes from your stories, your square footage and how much tree cover hangs over the house, and the number we give on the phone is the number on the invoice. Across Indiana, most of our customers book in spring and fall, once the seeds have dropped and once the leaves are down. Call (866) 435-6328 and we will tell you when the crew can come.
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, how much square footage sits under the roofline, and what is packed in the gutters when we get there. We quote it over the phone or by text from those three things, and the number we quote is the number we charge. Some gutter cleaning services price by the linear foot, which lands in a similar place per foot of gutter, but on our jobs the stories and the buildup in the gutter system do most of the work.
Here is what moves the quote when our crew is on the ladder. A third story, or a pitch too steep to walk, means the work takes longer and needs a boom or scissor lift. A walk-out basement or a sloped lot raises the effective height of the back run. Each rain gutter run over a porch takes longer to reach than one at ground level. Gutters nobody has opened in years come out packed with compacted gunk, and that takes more hours than a clean run. Guards we have to lift and reseat add time as well. Downspout flushing, flow testing and haul-away are included and never billed as extras, and anything that changes the job is raised before work starts, never on the invoice. The same three inputs apply to commercial properties, so tell us the building type when you call.
On older Washington homes, the quotes that surprised people were the ones where the clog had gone unseen. A homeowner whose gutter overflowed at one corner usually had clogged downspouts at that end, and the water was finding its way behind the fascia, which is where a small leak starts and the fascia board begins to rot. When we clean the elbow and flow-test the run, the water flow runs away from the wall, and the drainage path carries the water away from the foundation. That is the difference between a cleaning and structural damage that is already starting, and we say which one we found before we leave.
| 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 in Washington book twice a year, once in spring after the seed and pollen drop, and once in fall after the last leaves and debris come down. Regular gutter cleaning in Washington means those two visits for most houses. In spring we open the downspout elbows and find seeds and pollen packed into a paste. In fall it is the wet leaf mat, and on houses that skipped the fall visit we have seen runs sag and pull loose by March under the weight of ice. Freezing winters are hard on a gutter that is still holding water, so the fall visit is the one we push hardest.
Under heavy tree cover, every three to four months is more realistic, because needles, seeds, a stray twig and grit pack into each downspout between visits, and a single season of buildup outruns a twice-a-year schedule. With few or no trees over the house and a flat landscape, once a year in late fall is usually enough. Guards change the schedule a little, since they keep the bulk of leaves out, but the surface still needs clearing and each downspout still needs flushing.
After the first visit, our estimate tells you which of those schedules your lot actually needs, and we put that in writing. The schedule goes on paper with the photos from each gutter cleaning service visit, so you can plan the next one. If the rainwater is running clear and the roofline is holding, we say so. If there is a blockage that is building up faster than the tier would suggest, we flag it in the report so you can plan around it. Sticking to a set visit schedule keeps the runs clean through heavy rainfall.
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 Washington in every season, and we provide gutter services to the surrounding areas from the nearest base. The residential properties we see most are the older ones with long runs of gutter, and the newer ones with more square footage than people expect. Call (866) 435-6328 to get your gutters on the calendar, or text a photo of the house front if that is easier. Tell us the stories, the rough square footage, whether big trees hang over the house, and whether you have gutter guards, and we give you the number and a lead time for a date.
The calendar fills in two busy windows, late spring and late fall, so booking early in those months gets you a slot you can plan around. Washington gutter cleaning follows the same steps for residential and commercial buildings, starting with a phone call. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for the visit. The crew works from the outside of the house, and the photos of every run come to your phone before the truck leaves. Flushing each downspout keeps water away from your home, and the crew covers the gutters and downspouts on every visit.
Booking the next date on the day of the visit is the easiest way to keep your gutters on schedule. The calendar holds your slot, so you are not calling back in the middle of a rainy week when the first clog shows up at the corner. Clean your gutters on a set schedule and the rest of the season is quieter.
The number comes from the stories and the size of the house, and we give it to you by phone or text, because a cleaning quote should not change at the ladder. We do not put a figure on a page because the debris removal and access change the job from one house to the next. Once we have the stories and square footage, the quote is the number on the invoice.
Most Washington homeowners book in late spring, after the seed and pollen drop, and in late fall, after the leaves are down. A regular schedule of cleanings helps protect your home from water damage. If you wait past the fall visit, the wet leaf mat can sit in the runs through the freezing months, and we have found sagging runs by March on those houses. Across Indiana, late spring and late fall is the pattern we see most.
Most slots come up within the week, and we confirm the exact date when you call. Our cleaning services in Washington run on a set calendar, so if you need something sooner, tell us when you call and we will see what the calendar allows.
No. 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; that is the whole list.
Yes. We flush every downspout and the crew checks that water is leaving at the outlet, and the water flow is watched until it runs clear. If a downspout feeds an underground line that will not clear from the top, we tell you what we found. Clearing a buried line is a separate job and is quoted before anyone touches it.
Yes. On our jobs guards keep whole leaves out, but needles, seed casings and grit get through and mat on top, and once that is wet, the water runs off the front edge. We lift the panels, clean underneath, flush each downspout and reseat the guards.
If a gutter is clean and still sheets water over the edge in the rain, the problem is usually slope or downspout size rather than buildup. Send us a photo or a short video in the rain and we will tell you what it is. We do not sell a second cleaning for a slope problem.
The gutter cleaning process only changes the number if the crew finds something that changes the job, and 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.
