Our own crew cleans gutters in Radcliff, every downspout flushed and flow-tested, the mess hauled away, and photos of every run before we leave. The price comes from your stories, your square footage and how much tree cover is over the roof, and the number we give you on the phone is the number on the invoice. Across Kentucky, most of our customers book in the spring and the fall, and that is when we are busiest.
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 it covers and what is sitting in the gutters. We quote it over the phone or by text from those three things, and the written estimate we give you is the number we charge. Other companies price by the linear foot, which lands in a similar place, but our cleaning services in Radcliff give Radcliff homeowners one number for the whole house, in Radcliff, KY, and that number is the one on the invoice.
What moves the quote on our jobs is usually a third story or a roof too steep to walk, a walk-out basement that puts the back run far up the wall, gutters that nobody has opened in years and are packed with old, compacted muck, and guards we have to lift off and reseat. Downspout flushing, flow testing and haul-away are already part of the number, never an extra line on the invoice. The gutter cleaning process is the same on every house: the trough is cleared by hand, we flush every downspout, and everything we pull out is carried away from your home in bags, so the lawn is left clean. Good drainage starts at the downspout, so the crew checks every one. A single twig, clog or blockage at a downspout elbow can make a whole run spill, and if something changes the job once we are on site, you hear about it before work starts.
Our Radcliff work is mostly on single-family homes where the crew can get a boom or scissor lift onto the driveway side. On the houses where the cleaning is tied to a heavy rainfall problem or an old gutter cleaning schedule that was never kept up, we see clogged runs that have been spilling for seasons and cause structural damage to the fascia behind them. Those visits are the ones that need the most care, and we say so on the phone. Gutter maintenance on a house like that means more time on the ladder, and the quote says so before we start. On the harder jobs the crew still leaves the gutter clean. Send us a photo of the front of the house by text if that is easy, and we can usually give you a firm number from it before you ever book a date. That is the whole cleaning and maintenance process we run for every homeowner, and it is the same for a house we have done before and one we have not.
| 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.
Most of our customers book twice a year. Across Kentucky the spring visit falls in late May to June, after the seed and pollen drop, and the fall visit falls in late October to November, after the last leaves are down. On our jobs the spring visit is mostly seeds and pollen paste packed into the downspout elbows, and the fall visit is the wet leaf mat that sits in the trough. Freezing winters here are hard on a gutter system that was left full, and on the houses that skipped the fall visit we often find a sag in the run where ice sat all winter. A clean trough in the fall is far easier than replacing a fascia board that has started to rot.
Under heavy tree cover, we see the gutters clog faster, so those houses are on a shorter schedule than the rest, because needles and grit pack the downspouts between visits and the water flow stops being steady. Clogged downspouts are the first thing we check, and landscape beds below the eave add mulch and soil to the mix. April, May and December are the wettest months here, so the trough fills fastest in those stretches. With few or no trees near the roof, a single visit in late fall keeps the trough clean for most lots. The gutter cleaning services we offer across Radcliff KY follow the same logic, and the cleanings are scheduled around what each lot actually needs.
Gutter guards cut down how often the trough fills, but they do not remove the need to clean the surface, so we still plan a visit for them, just less often. A rain gutter that is guarded still has to carry water away from your home, and that is what we check on every visit. Leaves and debris sit on top of the guard, and once the guard is off, a clean gutter is the first thing we want to see. Commercial properties come up on the phone too, and if you are calling about residential and commercial buildings, tell us which one on the first call so we can say whether our crew is the right fit. After the first visit we tell you which tier your lot actually needs, and we put the photos of every run on your phone so you can see what we found.
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.
Booking with us starts with a quote by phone or text, based on stories, square footage and tree cover. Radcliff homes are quoted the same way from one house to the next. A photo taken from the driveway with a clean view of the roofline and gutter line is enough to start. We confirm the first open date when you call, and we will tell you the date we can actually keep rather than promise one we cannot. Spring and fall are the two busy windows of the year, when most of our calendar fills, so if you want a particular week it helps to call early.
We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for the work. The crew stays outside, and the photos arrive on your phone before the truck leaves. Residential properties are most of our Radcliff work, and the booking steps are the same whether you need a one-time gutter cleaning service or regular gutter cleaning on a schedule. Buildup in the trough is what slows the water flow and lets rainwater spill over the front edge, and a leak at a seam is photographed and reported, not patched on the spot. Clean gutters help protect your home from water damage, so keep your gutters on a schedule that fits the season. Across Kentucky, spring severe storms, hail and tornadoes are why many people ask us to clean your gutters before the season starts. To book a date, call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the house front, and we will get your gutters on the calendar.
The number comes from the stories and the size of the house, and our gutter services are quoted that way every time. We do not give a range here because every two-story roof is different.
Customers in Radcliff KY usually book in late spring and again in late fall, and that is the simplest way to keep your gutters clear. If you wait past the first hard freeze, ice can sag the runs at the eave before we ever get up there.
We confirm the first open date when you call, and we do not promise a same-day slot we cannot keep. The same booking steps apply in Radcliff and surrounding areas.
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.
Yes, we flush every downspout and check that the water is moving through, including where it runs toward an underground drain line. A clog at an elbow or a blockage in the run gets cleared before we call the job done, and the run is left clean. Clearing a buried line is a separate job and is quoted before anyone touches it.
Yes. Guards help protect your home from water damage, but on our jobs we find needles and seed casings sitting on top of the guard and grit underneath, so the leaves and debris still get cleared off the surface, just less often.
A gutter that is clean and still spills in the rain has a slope or downspout size problem, not a cleaning problem. If rainwater is still going over the front edge, send us a photo or a short video of it in the rain and we will tell you what it actually is.
Only if something changes the job, and in that case you hear about it and agree to it before work starts. The number we quote on the phone is the number on the invoice, and that is our commitment for every house in Radcliff, KY. A written estimate covers the gutters and downspouts, so you see the full number before anyone climbs a ladder. Call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the roofline and we will send you that estimate.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
