Our own crew cleans gutters for Dundalk homeowners, flushing every outlet and checking that it runs clear, hauling the debris away, and sending you photos of every run before we leave. A clean gutter system keeps water away from your home, and that is the whole job. The price comes from your stories, your home's size and how much tree cover shades the house, and the number we give you on the phone is the number on the invoice. We have been doing this work across Maryland through the spring and fall visits that most of our customers book.
Quoted from stories, size and tree cover, over the phone, with nothing added once the crew is on the roof.
The price depends on the number of stories, the square footage and what is actually sitting in the gutters. We quote it by phone or text from those three things, and the number we quote is the number we charge. Some companies price by the linear foot, which lands in a similar place, but we would rather give you one number for the whole house than make you multiply.
What moves the quote on our jobs is usually a third story or a steep pitch too hard to walk, a walk-out basement that puts the back run far up the wall, gutters that nobody has opened in years and that are packed with compacted leaves, a twig or two and grit, and guards we have to lift and reseat before we can clean underneath. Outlet flushing, flow testing and debris removal are included and never billed as extras. If something changes the job, you hear it before work starts, not on the invoice.
On our Dundalk homes we see the same pattern: a gutter with a sag or a low spot holds a clog, the buildup grows, and water flow stops at the far end of the run. When the drainage backs up, water spills over the front edge instead of running water away from your home, and that is how structural damage begins, with rot at the fascia and the soffit. We have also seen a rain gutter fill with leaves and debris until the outlets were the only thing moving water, and a few of them were clogged downspouts that needed flushing from the top. Our commercial properties work follows the same method, but the homes are where most of our gutter cleaning services happen.
Quotes are by phone at (866) 435-6328 or by text. Send a photo of the front of the house if that is easy, and tell us the stories and whether trees hang over the roof, so we can get your gutters on the calendar. We will tell you what the number is and what it covers before anyone climbs a ladder.
| One story | Two stories | Three stories or steep | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1,500 sq ft | from $150 | from $225 | from $295 |
| 1,500 to 2,500 sq ft | from $200 | from $260 | from $335 |
| Over 2,500 sq ft | from $235 | from $305 | from $395 |
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 Dundalk MD book twice a year, once in the spring after seed and pollen drop and once in the fall after the last leaves come down. Across Maryland the spring visit lands in mid to late May, and when we open a gutter here we find seeds and pollen paste packed into the elbows. In November it is the wet leaf mat, and on houses that skipped the fall visit we have seen runs sag and pull loose by March under the weight of ice.
Where the freeze risk is real, the fall visit is the one that matters most, because the first ice settles into any gutter that still holds water, and a clog or a small leak at a joint turns into an ice dam at the eave. Under heavy tree cover, every three to four months is usually what keeps the outlets clear, because needles and grit pack in between visits, and heavy rainfall is the first thing that shows a missed visit. With few or no trees, once a year in late fall is enough for most lots, and a landscape bed right below the outlets is the place to check. Gutters with guards still need the surface kept clean, and that visit is less frequent but not zero.
The spring and fall visits are the core of the schedule. If you want a regular gutter cleaning service, the cadence is set by how much debris your roofline collects, which we confirm on the first visit. We check for blockage, rainwater flow and any loose hanger, and we give you an estimate for the next visit, with debris removal included, based on what we actually found. Residential properties follow this logic, and every residential and commercial schedule is set per building. After the first visit we tell you which tier your lot needs, so you are not guessing how often to clean your gutters.
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 Dundalk gutter cleaning crew works across Dundalk and the surrounding areas, and we offer cleaning services in Dundalk from the nearest base without making you wait for a route that does not come near you. To book, call (866) 435-6328 or text us a photo of the front of the house with a rough count of stories and whether trees hang over the house. That is enough for a quote, and we confirm a date when we call you back. Most of our homeowner clients find the slot comes up within a week, but the lead time shifts with the season, so we tell you the real date at the time you book.
The two busiest windows are late spring and late fall, when the seeds and leaves are heaviest. If you want a slot in those windows, book early, because the calendar fills fast. We call before we come and nobody needs to be home for the work. Our gutter services are the core of what we do, but we also clean the windows where they are reachable from the ground, and we flush gutters and downspouts on every visit so a clog does not come back between cleanings. Any twig that has wedged in a bend gets pulled out before we leave. A clean gutter that keeps flowing, with no leak at the joints, helps protect your home from water damage, and that is the whole reason to keep your gutters on the booking calendar.
The number comes from the stories, the size and what is in the gutters, and we give it to you by phone or text. We do not quote a figure without seeing those three things.
Most of our customers here book in late spring and late fall. If the fall visit is skipped on a house with a freeze risk, we usually find runs sagging by March, so the cleaning and maintenance schedule matters.
Our lead time depends on the calendar across Dundalk, and most slots come up within the week. We confirm the date when you call.
No. Our crew works outside, does not come inside, and leaves the ground clean. Photos of every run and downspout go 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 as part of the gutter cleaning process and check that water leaves at the outlet. Clearing a buried drain line is a separate job, and we quote that before touching it.
Yes. On our jobs we find needles, seed casings and grit sitting on top of the gutter guards and under them, and that mat stops water from getting in. The visits are less frequent, but gutter maintenance on a guarded gutter system still means clearing the surface.
If a clean gutter still sheets water over the edge in rain, it is usually a slope or capacity problem and not a buildup problem. Call (866) 435-6328 or send us a photo or a short video in the rain, and we tell you what it is without selling a second cleaning.
It should not. Anything that changes the job is raised and agreed before work starts, so you can get your gutters cleaned at the number you were quoted, and the gutters come out clean.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
