Our own crew cleans gutters and downspouts in York ME, each run flushed and flow-tested, debris hauled away, and photos of every run before we leave. The gutters are left clean, not just emptied. The price comes from stories, size and tree cover, and the number we give you on the phone is the number on the invoice. Most of our York customers book in spring and fall, and we take it from there.
Quoted from stories, size and tree cover, over the phone, with nothing added once the crew is on the roof.
The price for our gutter cleaning services depends on stories, square footage and what is in the gutters; we quote it over the phone or by text from those three things, and the number we give you is the number we charge. Companies that price by the linear foot land in a similar place per foot of run, but a foot of run does not tell you how high the crew has to climb.
What moves the price on our jobs is what the crew finds. A third story or a roof too steep to walk takes longer and more equipment. A walk-out basement or a sloped lot raises the effective height of the roofline. Gutters nobody has opened in years come down packed with compacted leaf mat that takes longer to get clean, and guards we have to lift and reseat add time. Flushing, flow testing and debris removal are included and never billed as extras, and anything that changes the job is raised before work starts, never on the invoice.
Homeowners on the older streets near the water tend to have the same run of gutter under a heavy canopy, and the clog builds up in the same low corner every visit. On one job the gutters were full of leaves, the clogged downspouts were choking the flow, and the water flow at the bottom was almost nothing, so the crew had to flush every downspout until it ran clear. That is the sort of job where the price is set by what is in the trough, not by the square footage. If you are not sure what your gutters are holding, text us a photo of the roofline and we will tell you what we see.
A rain gutter system that fills over the edge in rain is usually a drainage problem, and a sag in the run is often the first sign that the buildup has been there a while. Left alone, that water finds the fascia and the foundation and turns into structural damage. Our gutter services catch it on the first visit, while there is still a clean fix available, rather than after the rot starts.
| One story | Two stories | Three stories or steep | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1,500 sq ft | from $150 | from $195 | from $255 |
| 1,500 to 2,500 sq ft | from $170 | from $225 | from $295 |
| Over 2,500 sq ft | from $200 | from $265 | from $345 |
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 their cleanings twice a year, in spring after the seed and pollen drop, and in fall after the last leaves come down. In spring we find seeds and pollen paste packed in the elbows. In fall it is the wet leaf mat, and on houses that skipped the fall visit we see runs that sag or pull loose by March under the weight of ice. That is the rainwater and the clog working together, and a blockage at the eave is exactly where it starts.
Under heavy tree cover, big trees over the roof, our customers are on regular gutter cleaning every three to four months, because twigs, needles and grit pack the trough between visits. With few or no trees, once a year in late fall is enough for most houses. Where the landscape slopes toward the house or a construction site sends grit into the yard, the grit gets into the trough faster, and we treat those lots the same way. Gutter guards cut the frequency, but a clean trough still needs the surface cleared.
After the first visit we tell you which of those your lot needs for cleaning and maintenance. Ask for a York gutter cleaning estimate by phone and we will set the schedule from what the gutter holds, not from a rule of thumb. If you want to clean your gutters on your own, the crew can explain what to look for, but on houses with this kind of roofline the reason to book us is the roofline, which is hard to reach from a ladder.
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 work across York and the surrounding areas, and the crew works from the nearest base without naming it here. On our jobs we have left the older streets near the water and the newer lots out toward the back roads with clean gutters, and the gutter needs differ between them. Booking is simple: call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the front of the house, give us the stories, the size and whether there are trees over the roof, and we quote the job by phone or text.
The two busy windows are spring and fall, when our calendar fills, so call early if you want to get your gutters on the schedule for a particular week. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for the visit, whichever of our gutter services you book. If your gutters have pulled loose, a seam has started to leak, or the fascia has rot, we photograph it and put it in the report, so you know what you are dealing with before the next storm.
Our gutter services run across residential and commercial properties alike, and the crew treats both with the same care. A clean gutter run keeps the water away from your home and the foundation, and that is how you protect your home from water damage, season after season. Keep your gutters clear and you keep the rest of the house dry.
The number comes from the stories and the size of the house, and we give it to you by phone or text. We do not quote a figure without those, because the same two-story house can take very different time depending on what is packed in the gutters.
Our customers here book in late spring, after the seed and pollen drop, and in late October or early November, after the last leaves. If you wait past November on a house with trees, the leaf mat has usually turned to wet paste, and on houses that skipped the fall visit we see runs sagging under ice by March.
Most slots come up within the week, and we confirm the date when you call. We do not promise same-day unless the calendar has a clean opening that day.
No. The gutter cleaning process happens outside only: the crew does not come inside, and sends photos of every run to your phone before the truck leaves. Leave the side gate unlocked and keep pets in while the ladders are up, and the yard is left as clean as it was found.
Yes, every downspout is flushed and flow-tested, the run is left clean, and the crew checks that water is leaving at the outlet. Clearing a buried drain line is a separate job, and we quote it before anyone touches it. Call (866) 435-6328 if you want that looked at.
Yes. Guards keep the big leaves out, but seed casings and grit sit on top of the guard and turn into a paste. On our jobs a gutter can look clean and empty, and the water still never gets in, so the surface needs clearing. Guards cut the need for gutter maintenance, but they do not end it.
A homeowner with a gutter that is clean and still sheets water over the edge has a slope or outlet-size problem, not a blockage problem. Send us a photo or a short video of it during heavy rainfall and we will tell you what it actually is, without selling you a second cleaning.
It should not. The number we quote on the phone is the number on the invoice. If the crew finds something that changes the job, you hear about it and agree to it before they start, never after.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
