Our own crew cleans gutters in Versailles, every run flushed and flow-tested, the leaves and grit hauled away and the yard left clean, with photos taken before we leave. The price comes from your stories, your home's size and how much tree cover hangs over the house, and the number we give on the phone is the number on the invoice. Across Kentucky, most of our customers book in the spring and fall, and we are glad to give you a firm date when you call.
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 many square feet it covers, 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. Repeat cleanings are priced the same way, from the same three things, so the second visit does not surprise you. Some companies price by the linear foot, which lands in a similar place once the run is measured, but we would rather give you one number for the whole house. Versailles homeowners get that same single figure for our cleaning services in Versailles, whether it is one visit or a plan of recurring visits.
What moves the quote on our jobs is usually what the crew finds once it reaches the eave. A third story or a roof too steep to walk takes more time on the ladder. A walk-out basement or a sloped lot raises the effective height of the roofline at the back of the house. Gutters that nobody has opened in years come out packed with compacted leaves, twig pieces and grit, enough to clog the outlets, and that takes longer to clean out than a yearly cleaning. Gutter guards we have to lift and reseat add a step to every run, and the water flow gets checked once they are back on. Flushing, flow testing and haul-off are included and never billed as extras. A gutter that has gone years without gutter maintenance tends to show it in the first heavy rainfall, when the water has nowhere to go and a seam starts to leak. If anything changes the job, you hear it before work starts, never on the invoice.
On the experience side, we keep our answers to what we have seen on our own jobs. When a homeowner has a heavy canopy over the house, the buildup comes down faster between visits, so the schedule and the quote both reflect that. When the trees are few, the work is quicker and the number reflects that too. We walk you through the gutter cleaning process before the crew arrives, so you know what gets done and what does not. Water that runs away from your home is the whole point of cleaning and maintenance, so get your gutters looked at before the leaves pile up. The easiest way to get a firm figure is to call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the front of the house, and we will tell you what we see and what we will charge for it.
| 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 here book our gutter cleaning services twice a year, once in the late spring after seed and pollen drop, and again in the late fall after the last leaves come down. When we open a gutter in May we find seed casings and pollen paste packed into clogged downspouts. In the fall it is the leaves and debris mat that has settled into the trough and holds rainwater, and on houses that skipped the fall visit we have seen runs sag, pull loose or let the fascia begin to rot by the next winter. Versailles homes with a lot of overhanging trees tend to need the earlier visit.
Under heavy tree cover, every three to four months is what keeps a gutter system clear, because leaves and grit pack the outlets between visits and a rain gutter fills faster than most owners expect. With few or no trees overhead, once a year in late fall is enough to keep most gutters clean. Keeping up with regular gutter care is what keeps structural damage off the fascia and the soffit. Gutter guards need less frequent visits, but the surface still has to be cleared, because pollen and grit settle on top of the guard and the water stops getting in. Near a busy road or a construction site the schedule tightens for the same reason, and commercial properties nearby usually keep to the shorter cycle. The same schedule suits residential properties too.
After the first visit we tell you which of those tiers your lot actually needs, based on what we found in the runs and along the drainage path. Where a downspout runs slow, we flush it before we write up the schedule. Across Versailles, the schedule follows the trees more than the calendar. Keeping water away from the fascia and the foundation protects the home from water damage, and that is the whole point of the schedule.
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.
We clean gutters across Versailles KY from our nearest base, and the crew covers the city as a whole rather than one corner of it. Our gutter cleaning service also reaches surrounding areas, and we take on residential and commercial properties alike. The crew works the same way on a bare lot or a landscape ringed with mature trees. Booking with us starts with a quote by phone or text, using your stories, your home's size and how much tree cover hangs over the house. A photo of the front of the house helps us give you a number without a visit. Most jobs come down to one clog at the outlet, so the crew checks that first on every run. The two busy windows of the year are spring and fall, and that is when our calendar fills first, so calling early in those months gets you a better date.
Call (866) 435-6328, text a photo of the front of the house, or book a date when you call. Owners on a regular gutter cleaning schedule get photos of every run at each visit. We call before we arrive and nobody needs to be home for exterior work. Our gutter services cover gutters and downspouts from end to end, check the drainage at each outlet, and include debris removal in the price. If you want the crew to work around a schedule, tell us when you call and we will fit the visit to it. Lead times vary with the season, and we will give you the honest slot when you call rather than promise a date we cannot hold. Some owners ask us to clean your gutters and keep your gutters checked on the same visit, and we are happy to do both.
We give you an estimate over the phone or by text, built from how many stories the house has, how big it is and what is in the gutters. We do not quote a figure from a list, because every house we open is a little different.
Our customers here usually book in late spring and again in late fall, because those visits catch the seed and pollen drop and the leaf load before the rainy months. If the gutters wait until winter, we often find a blockage has built up and the runs have started to sag under the weight of leaves and wet grit.
Most slots come up within the week, and we confirm the exact date when you call. If you need something sooner, tell us and we will check what the crew has open.
No. Our crew works outside, does not come into the house, 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 yard is left clean when the crew packs up.
Yes, the gutters and downspouts are flushed and flow-tested as part of the cleaning, and we check the outlet to confirm the water is leaving. Clearing a buried drain line is a separate job and we quote it before anyone touches it.
Yes. On our jobs, guards keep the big leaves out, but seed casings, pollen and grit still settle on top and turn to a paste. We lift the panels, clear underneath and reseat them along the roofline, so rainwater gets in again and the system can protect your home.
If a gutter is clean and still spills over the edge in the rain, that is usually a slope or outlet-size problem rather than a clog. Send us a photo or a short video taken during the rain and we will tell you what it is, without selling you 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, so the number on the invoice matches the one we gave you on the phone.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
