Our own crew cleans gutters in Franklin, every outlet flushed and flow-tested, the mess hauled off, and photos of every run before we leave. The price comes from the number of stories, the size of the house and how much tree cover is over the roof, and the number we give you on the phone is the number on your invoice. Most of our customers here book in the spring and fall, and we have been doing this work across Kentucky long enough to know why.
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 in the gutters, and that is how we price our gutter cleaning services across Franklin KY. We work it out by phone or 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 per foot, but the foot count alone misses the things that cost time on a ladder.
What moves the quote on our jobs is what the crew finds. A third story or a roof too steep to walk takes longer and needs a boom or scissor lift. A walk-out basement or a sloped lot puts the back run higher than it looks from the yard. A rain gutter nobody has opened in years comes out packed with compacted muck that has to be dug, not blown. Guards on the gutter system that we have to lift and reseat add time. Flushing, flow testing and debris removal are included in every gutter cleaning service we quote, and never billed as extras. Anything that changes the job is raised with you before work starts, never on the invoice.
On Franklin homes the most common surprise is the buildup in clogged downspouts at the elbows, where leaves, grit and the odd twig have packed into a plug that water cannot push through. We clear those by hand and flush every downspout until the water runs clear at the bottom, which is what gets water away from the foundation. Where a clog sits in a buried line, we check that water is leaving at the outlet and tell you if it is not; clearing a buried line is a separate job and is priced before anyone touches it. Left alone, a blockage like that is how water finds its way behind the fascia and into the wall.
Our Franklin jobs show the same pattern. The houses with heavy tree cover have the most leaves and needles, and the first heavy rainfall finds them. The ones that have gone the longest without a cleaning have the most sag and the most structural damage behind the runs. Those are the houses where the quote is highest and where keeping your gutters clear on a regular schedule costs the least over the years. One customer with a long run of gutter under big trees had the outlets flushed and the drainage checked at the first visit; the crew photographed every run before the truck left, and the next visit was priced from what we found.
We handle residential and commercial jobs, but a commercial property is never cleaned on the same ladder work as a house, and each building is scheduled on its own. The homes on this page are residential properties, and the number is set the same way for every one of them. Ask for the quote by phone at (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the front of the house, and you will have a written number before we schedule anything.
| One story | Two stories | Three stories or steep | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1,500 sq ft | from $150 | from $185 | from $240 |
| 1,500 to 2,500 sq ft | from $165 | from $215 | from $280 |
| Over 2,500 sq ft | from $190 | from $250 | from $325 |
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.
Across Kentucky, most of our customers book twice a year, in late spring after the seed and pollen drop, and again in late fall after the last leaves come down. Clean your gutters right after those drops, not after the first overflow. When we open a gutter here in May we find seeds, seed casings and pollen paste packed into the elbows. In the fall it is the wet leaf mat, and on houses that skipped that visit, we see runs that have sagged or pulled loose by the next spring.
Where the freeze risk is real, the fall visit matters more, and it is the single most useful piece of gutter maintenance we do. The first ice forms at the eave, the water backs up under the shingles, and the trapped water turns into ice dams that lift the edge of the roof. A clean gutter in November gives the water somewhere to go before the cold sets in. In rain-heavy spring weather, when the wettest months bring the most runoff, a gutter that is already full cuts the water flow, and it overflows at the first hard storm.
Under heavy tree cover, we are on every three to four months, because needles and grit pack the outlets between visits and the rainwater backs up into the roofline. Few or no trees over the house means once a year in late fall is usually enough. Guards slow the buildup, and we still clear the surface and check the gutters and downspouts on the schedule that fits the landscape of the lot.
Our Franklin homeowners come in on each of those tiers. One with no trees on the lot books once a year, and the gutters stay clean and draining. Another under trees books every three to four months, and the clog that used to form between visits does not come back. Each of those houses has a record of what we found at every visit, and the schedule came from that record.
After the first visit we tell you which tier your lot actually needs for cleaning and maintenance, and we put the blockage and the estimate for the next cleaning in writing before we leave.
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 several Franklin neighborhoods, and the crew covers the city and the surrounding areas from the nearest base. Booking starts when a homeowner asks for a quote by phone or text, from the stories, the size of the house and the tree cover, and a photo of the house front if it is easy to send. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for the gutter cleaning process, which is all exterior work.
The calendar fills in two busy windows, one in late spring and one in late fall, so the earlier you call to get your gutters on the schedule, the better your choice of date. The lead time is written on the quote when you call, because a slot in the busy window can come up later than a slot in the quiet months. The crew keeps a photo record of each house, so the next booking starts from what we found last time.
Every visit ends with photos of every run and every outlet sent to your phone, and the crew reports anything that is not a cleaning problem: a hanger pulled loose, a leak at a seam, a run sitting flat. We photograph it and report it, and we do not sell the repair on the spot. Each of our cleanings ends with the same photo record, which is how we protect your home from water damage and keep your gutters working through a wet season.
To book, call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the gutters along the front of the house, and we confirm a date on the call.
Franklin gutter cleaning is priced from the stories, the size of the house and the tree cover, and we give the number to you by phone or text. We do not give a figure without those three things, and the number on the phone is the number on the invoice.
Our customers here book in late spring and again in late fall, so that is when to clean your gutters. If the fall visit is skipped on a house that freezes, the first sign is usually a sagging run, and the fascia behind it starts to rot once the thaw comes.
Most slots come up within the week for our cleaning services in Franklin, and we confirm the date when you call. If the crew can come sooner, we say so on the phone.
No. The crew works outside, does not come inside, leaves the yard clean, and sends photos of every run to your phone before the truck leaves. Leave the side gate unlocked and keep pets inside while the ladders are up, and the stand-offs hold each ladder away from your home.
Yes, every run is flushed and flow-tested, and we check that water is leaving the outlet. Clearing a buried line is a separate job and is quoted before anyone starts it.
Yes. Under guards we still find needles, seed casings and grit packed on top and underneath, so we lift the panels, clear what is there and reseat them.
A clean gutter that still overflows in rain has a slope or capacity problem rather than debris. Send us a photo or a short video in the rain and we will tell you what it is.
Only if something changes the job, and in that case you hear it and agree to it before the crew starts, never after.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
