Our own crew will clean gutters in Richmond, every downspout flushed and flow-tested, leaves hauled away, and photos of every run before we leave. The price comes from your stories, your home's size and how much tree cover is over the house, and the number we give on the phone is the number on your invoice. Across Kentucky, most of our customers book in spring and fall, and we work the same way on every house.
Quoted from stories, size and tree cover, over the phone, with nothing added once the crew is on the roof.
Richmond homeowners get a quote that depends on how many stories the house has, its 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. Other companies quote per linear foot, which lands in a similar place once the stories and access are counted. Text us a photo of the front of the house and tell us how many stories it has, and you will have a firm estimate before we schedule your clean. Our cleaning services in Richmond follow the same gutter cleaning process on every house, so the pricing rule never changes.
On our jobs, a few things move the quote more than anything else. A third story, or a pitch too steep to walk, means the crew works from a boom or scissor lift instead of a ladder, and that takes more time. A walk-out basement or a sloped lot raises the effective height of the roofline. Gutters nobody has opened to clean in years come out packed with compacted muck that has to be cleared by hand. Guards we have to lift and reseat add time too. Debris removal and downspout flushing are included in the price and never billed as extras. A seam with a leak gets photographed and reported, not sold on the spot. If anything we find changes the job, you hear it before work starts, never on the invoice.
Our Richmond customers tend to see the biggest change from tree cover. One house on a wooded lot had its back run fully packed with leaf mat, and the clogged downspouts were choked with a twig and packed leaves at the elbows. That is a clog you cannot see from the driveway. The crew had to flush every downspout, clean the outlet, and confirm the water ran away from the foundation, and the job was done in one visit. Clear gutters move water away from your home, and that is the reason for the cleaning and maintenance we do. Ask us about your lot and we will tell you what we expect to find before we arrive. Call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of your roofline and we will give you the number.
| 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 in Richmond KY book twice a year. Across Kentucky, the spring visit falls in late May or June, after the spring seed and pollen drop, and the fall visit falls in late October or November, after the last of the leaves are down. When we open and clean a gutter in May we find seed casings and pollen paste packed into the downspout elbows. In November it is the wet leaf mat that has settled over the summer, along with the leaves and debris from the trees, and on houses that skipped the fall visit we have seen runs sag and pull loose once ice gets on them. The spring and fall schedule holds for most houses.
Under heavy tree cover, we see customers on a three to four month schedule, because needles and grit pack the downspouts between visits and the gutter system fills faster than a schedule of twice-a-year cleanings can keep up with. Richmond homes with few or no trees near the house do well with one clean a year, in late fall. Gutter guards, when a home has them, still collect a surface mat over time, so the surface gets cleared on the same schedule even though the guards keep most of the leaves out. A landscape with trees close to the eaves sheds more needles and seeds into the trough, which is why its schedule runs shorter. Rain gutter systems in Richmond take the heaviest load in the wettest months, April, May and July, and heavy rainfall is when a blockage at the elbow shows its problem, because the rainwater has nowhere to go and pools against the fascia, which invites rot.
After the first visit we tell you which of these schedules your lot actually needs. We look at what came out of the gutters, how fast the water moved through the pipes, and whether any runs show early sag or structural damage at the hangers. From there you get a clear plan rather than a guess about when to clean. Keep your gutters running on schedule by booking your first visit with us, and we will set the schedule from what we find.
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 gutter cleaning service runs from the nearest base and covers Richmond KY as a whole. Booking takes a short call or text: tell us your stories, your approximate size and whether trees hang over the house, and send a photo of the house front if that is easy. Most slots come up within the week, and we confirm the date when you call. The two busiest windows on our calendar are spring and fall, so booking early in those months keeps your preferred date open, and it is the quickest way to get your gutters on the calendar. Before we come to clean, we call ahead, and nobody needs to be home for the visit. Ask about surrounding areas when you call, and we will say whether the drive fits our schedule.
Our gutter services cover residential properties and residential and commercial work in the Richmond area, and the same team handles both. Gutter maintenance for a homeowner comes down to checking gutters and drains on a schedule: regular gutter cleaning in the spring and fall keeps the water flow moving and stops the buildup that causes drainage trouble. If you are not sure whether you need to clean your gutters now, ask us to take a look. Commercial properties follow the same booking call, so a shop owner and a homeowner start in the same place. Call (866) 435-6328 to book, or text a photo of the gutter system and we will tell you what we see.
The number comes from the stories, the square footage and what is in the gutters, and we give it by phone or text before anything is scheduled. The number we quote is the number on your invoice.
Most of our customers here book late spring and late fall. In spring we clear seed casings and pollen, and in fall the leaf mat, and waiting past the first hard freeze means we can find ice-damaged runs.
Most slots for our gutter cleaning services in Richmond KY come up within the week, and we confirm the date when you call. Text us a photo of the house and we will tell you the earliest opening we have.
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.
Yes, we flush every downspout and watch it until it runs clear at the bottom. Where a downspout feeds an underground drain 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, quoted before anyone touches it.
Yes. Under guards we still find needles threaded through the mesh, seed casings sitting on top, and grit settling underneath, and once that mat gets wet, water runs over the front edge. We lift the panels, clean underneath, and reseat them.
A gutter that is clean and still sheets water over the edge in rain has a slope or downspout-size problem, not a debris problem. Getting the slope right helps you protect your home from water damage, so send us a short video in the rain and we will tell you what it actually is. We do not sell a second cleaning for a slope problem.
It should not. Our gutter cleaning process is set so the price does not move. If the crew finds something that changes the job, you hear it and agree to it before they start. The price we quote on the phone is the price on the invoice.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
