Our own crew cleans gutters here, every spout flushed and flow-tested, everything hauled off, and 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 the invoice. Most of our customers book in spring and fall.
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 what is sitting in the gutters. For each homeowner we quote it over the phone or by text from those three things, and the number we quote is the number we charge. Companies that price by the linear foot land in a similar place per foot of gutter, but on a house with a steep pitch or a second storey the length alone does not tell the story.
On our jobs the things that move a quote are consistent. A third story or a roof too steep to walk means a boom or scissor lift instead of a ladder. A walk-out basement or a sloped lot raises the effective height of the back run. Gutters nobody has opened in years come down packed and compacted, and that takes longer to clear. Heavy rainfall after a dry spell fills a run fast, and a packed run is slower to clean. Gutter guards we have to lift and reseat add time. Flushing, flow testing and haul-off are part of the gutter cleaning process and are never billed as extras. Regular gutter maintenance keeps the cleanings short, because the crew is clearing a light load. If anything we find changes the job, you hear about it before work starts, not on the invoice.
On the houses we quote here, tree cover moves the number more than anything else. Heavy tree canopy means twig and seed build up in the gutters quickly, so the crew clears and flushes the full run on every visit. A leak at a corner joint gets photographed and reported, not fixed on the spot. The number is different for each house, and the cleaning and maintenance it needs follows the tree cover, which is why we want a photo of the front of your house by text before we give you a figure.
Freeze-belt houses and southern houses load gutters differently, and the quote follows the load. Give us a call at (866) 435-6328 or text us a photo of the roofline and we will tell you what the house needs and what it costs, then send a written estimate so you can compare it with anything else you have been quoted. The estimate is the number we will charge, and nobody needs to be home for us to do the job. If you want to get your gutters on the calendar before the first hard freeze, say so when you call and we will look at the first open window with you.
| 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 across Friendly book twice a year. Across Maryland the spring visit falls in mid to late May, after the seed and pollen drop, and our fall visits run November to early December, once the last leaves are down and before the first hard freeze. Our gutter cleaning services here follow those two windows, because the leaves and debris arrive on a predictable schedule. When we open a gutter in May we find seeds, seed casings and pollen paste packed into the elbows. That packed material is a clog at the elbow, and it is the first thing the crew clears. In November it is the wet leaf mat, and on houses that skipped the fall visit we have found runs sagging under ice by March, with the fascia behind them starting to rot. The spring and fall visits catch both of those before they turn into structural damage.
Under heavy tree cover, every three to four months is the schedule we see working. Needles and grit pack the clogged downspouts between visits, and a gutter that looks clear from the ground can be restricted at the elbow. With few or no trees around the house, once a year in late fall is usually enough to keep the water away from your home. Near a busy road, a construction site or a landscape job with bare soil, we move the schedule up because the grit settles faster.
Gutter guards change the schedule, though they do not remove it. A guarded gutter system needs less frequent full cleaning, but the surface still has to be cleared and we still flush every outlet, so we keep those visits on the calendar even when the gutters look clean.
After the first visit we tell you which tier your lot actually needs, and we put the notes in the photo report so you can see what we found on your own house. If a rain gutter sags or pulls away from the fascia, the photo report says so, and that repair is quoted separately.
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 crew cleans gutters here and in the surrounding areas. We clean residential properties and commercial properties on the same schedule, so residential and commercial jobs book through one calendar. We offer cleaning services in Friendly MD to friendly homes, and every gutter cleaning service starts with a call or a text. When you call or text us a photo, we ask for the stories, the approximate square footage and whether trees hang over the house, and that is enough to quote the job. A photo of the house front helps us confirm the lift access before we give you a time. If you want us to clean your gutters before the summer thunderstorms and derechos across Maryland, ask for the first open window.
Calendars fill fastest in the two busy windows of the year: late spring, when the seed and pollen load is heaviest, and late fall, when the leaves come down. Regular gutter cleaning keeps those windows short, because a run cleaned on schedule has less buildup to lift out. If you want a fall date, booking in early autumn keeps you ahead of the rush, and the debris removal is done on the same visit. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for the visit. Call (866) 435-6328 to take the first open date.
A clog in the trough is the usual reason water flow stops, and it shows up as drainage trouble at the bottom of the run. A gutter that starts to sag under buildup holds water and cannot drain, so we check the slope before we give you a number. Clean gutters carry water flow where it should go, and a clean run is the first thing we want to see before the rain comes.
The number comes from the stories, the size of the house and the amount of tree cover, and we give it to you by phone or text as a written estimate. We do not quote a figure without knowing those three things, because a two-storey house with trees and one without can land far apart. Houses in the surrounding areas are priced the same way.
Our customers here book in late spring after the seed and pollen drop, and again in late fall after the leaves are down. If you wait past the first hard freeze, the fall load can clog the elbows, turn into ice dams at the eave, and damage the roofline. Clearing it before that point is how you protect your home from water damage.
Calendars fill fast for our gutter services in Friendly MD, and we confirm the date when you call. We do not promise same-day service because the calendar depends on the crew's route, so we tell you the first open window when you book.
No. Our crew works outside, does not come inside, and sends photos of every run to your phone before the truck leaves, so you see the clean result. Leave the side gate unlocked and keep pets inside while the ladders are up.
Yes, we flush every downspout and flow-test it so we can see the water running clear at the outlet. If a blockage holds the water back, or it runs into an underground line, we check the outlet there, and clearing a buried line is a separate job that we quote before anyone touches it.
Yes. Guards keep leaves out, but needles, seed casings and grit settle on top, and once that mat is wet the water runs over the front edge. To keep your gutters working we clean the surface, clear the gutters and downspouts, and reseat the guards, which usually runs shorter than an open gutter.
A clean gutter that still sheets rainwater over the edge has a slope or capacity problem, not a cleaning problem. Send us a photo or a short video in the rain and we will tell you what it is, and we will not sell you a second cleaning for a slope issue.
Only if something we find changes the job, and in that case you hear about it and agree to it before work starts. The number we quote on the phone is the number on the invoice.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
