Our own crew gives Destrehan homeowners a clean gutter every time. We flush every downspout, haul the leaves away, and send 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 it has, and the number we give you on the phone is the number on your invoice. Across Louisiana, most of our customers book in the spring and in the fall, and we are glad to quote your house by phone or text today.
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, its square footage and how much leaves and debris is sitting in the gutters. Most Destrehan homes come down to those three things, and we quote gutter cleaning services by phone or text from them. The number we quote is the number we charge. Other companies price by the linear foot, which lands in a similar place once the job is measured. Downspout flushing, flow testing and leaf haul-off are part of the number, never added afterward, and the yard is left clean.
On our jobs, a third story or a roof too steep to walk takes more time and more equipment, and a walk-out basement or sloped lot raises the effective height of the roofline. A rain gutter that has not been opened in years comes down packed with compacted grit, and guards we have to lift and reseat add labor. Clogged downspouts that sat for a season can hide structural damage and fascia rot, and the crew reports anything it sees. Our job is to restore water flow and keep water away from your home. If anything changes the job once we are on site, you hear it before work starts, never on the invoice.
Our Destrehan homeowners come to us with the same pattern: a clog that hid a sag, a drainage problem that showed up as water running down the wall, and a buildup of leaves and one stuck twig that was blocking flow for a season. On one recent Destrehan job, the house had a heavy tree canopy and a gutter system where one run had been overflowing for months, which is why it took longer than the front of the house suggested. The quote was built on that, and the number we gave on the phone is the number on the invoice. Send us a photo of the front of your house by text, and that starts the gutter cleaning process.
| 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 Destrehan customers book regular gutter cleaning twice a year, once in spring after the seed and pollen drop and once in fall after the last leaves come down. Across Louisiana, the spring visit usually falls in mid to late April and the fall visit in November to December. When we open a gutter here in spring we usually find seeds, seed casings and pollen paste packed into the downspout elbows. In fall it is the wet leaf mat, and on houses that skipped the fall visit we often see runs that have sagged or pulled loose before the rainy season arrives.
Under heavy tree cover, we see our customers on a three to four month schedule, because needles and grit pack the downspout elbows between visits and the rainwater backs up faster than a twice-a-year clean can keep up with. Houses with few or no trees near the eaves usually need a single visit each year in late fall, and a bare landscape around the house means less grit to clear. Gutter guards still need checking, though less often, and the surface still needs a clean. Gutter maintenance and debris removal go hand in hand, so a yearly visit keeps cleaning and maintenance on the same schedule.
After the first clean, we tell you which schedule your lot actually needs, based on what we found in the gutter and around the eaves. A clog left alone turns into a blockage, and a blockage turns into a leak at the seams, so it is cheaper to clean your gutters on schedule than to pay for the repair it prevents. Call (866) 435-6328 to book, or text a photo of your house and we will set up the first estimate.
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 Destrehan gutter cleaning crew works out of the nearest base and covers jobs across Destrehan, plus the surrounding areas. We handle residential and commercial jobs, and commercial properties are quoted the same way. We quote by phone or text from stories, square footage and tree cover, and a photo of the front of the house helps us see it before we arrive. Lead times depend on the season, and the busiest windows are spring and fall, when our calendar fills fastest.
We call before we come, so you know when to expect the crew, and nobody needs to be home for exterior work. If you want to get your gutters on the schedule before the next storm, book early in the season and we will tell you exactly when the slot opens. Repeat cleanings for residential properties follow the same booking path. Our goal is to protect your home from water damage before the next heavy rainfall, and to keep your gutters and downspouts clean year after year, which is what our gutter services are for.
The number comes from the stories, the square footage and how much buildup is in the gutters, and we give it to you by phone or text. Some cleaning services in Destrehan price by the linear foot, but we do not quote a range here, because every house in Destrehan is different. The number we quote is the number on your invoice.
Most of our customers here book in late spring and again in late fall. If you wait past the fall visit, we often find runs that have sagged under the wet leaf mat, and the cost to correct them rises fast. Call (866) 435-6328 and we will find the earliest slot to get your gutters clean.
Most slots come up within the week, and we confirm the date with you when you call. We will tell you the earliest opening we have for your house.
No. Our crew works outside, does not come inside, and sends each homeowner photos of every run and downspout before the truck leaves. Leave the side gate unlocked and keep pets inside while the ladders are up.
Yes, every downspout is flushed with water and watched until it runs clean, and we check that water is leaving the outlet. If a downspout drains into an underground line, we check the outlet and tell you if water is not leaving. Clearing a buried line is a separate job and is quoted before we touch it.
Yes. On our jobs we find seed casings, needles and grit sitting on top of the guard, and once that layer gets wet the water runs over the front edge instead of into the trough. We lift the panels, clean underneath and reseat them.
A gutter that is clean and still overflows has a slope or downspout-size problem, not a buildup problem. Send us a photo or a short video of it in the rain and we will tell you what it is, without selling you a second cleaning.
Only if something changes the job, and then you hear about it and agree before work starts. The number we quote on the phone is the number on the invoice, so the invoice stays clean and there are no surprises at the end of the visit.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
