Our own crew cleans gutters in Concord MA, and we flush every downspout and check it with a flow test before we leave, so every run comes out clean. The gutters and downspouts get the same care, and the whole gutter system is checked on every visit. The price comes from your stories, your house size and how much tree cover hangs over it, and the number we give you on the phone is the number on the invoice. Debris leaves with the truck. Call (866) 435-6328 for a quote. We have run this work across Massachusetts for spring and fall visits, and Concord is one of the places we return to every season.
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 big the roof is 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. Some companies price by the linear foot, which lands in a similar place once you count the runs, but we would rather give you one figure you can plan around.
On our jobs the quote moves for a handful of reasons. A third story, or a roof too steep to walk, means the crew works from a boom or scissor lift instead of a ladder. A walk-out basement or a sloped lot raises the effective height of the back roofline. Gutters nobody has opened in years come out packed with compacted leaf mass, and that takes more time to clean out. Guards that we have to lift and reseat add their own time. Downspout flushing, flow testing and debris removal are included and never billed as extras, and anything that changes the job is raised with you before work starts, never on the invoice.
Most of our Concord customers are on a house where the gutters have been carrying leaves and debris for a season or two, and the clogged downspouts show up as water running over the edge in the first hard rain. A rain gutter full of wet leaves cannot move the water, so it spills. When we open one of these up, the buildup is often heavier than the homeowner expected, and the blockage is usually a clog at the elbow where the downspout turns. Clearing that out, leaving the trough clean, and checking the drainage and the water flow from the top of the run to the outlet is part of the standard visit. Water that stays in the trough long enough can start to rot the fascia and cause structural damage to the roofline behind it, which is why we do not treat a sag or a slow run as cosmetic.
We have cleaned gutters on concord homes ranging from small cape-style houses to larger two-story homes with heavy tree cover, and the gutter cleaning services we provide are scoped the same way for each. A clean run that still sheets water over the edge after we leave is a slope problem, not a debris problem, and we tell you that plainly rather than selling a second cleaning. Our crew works on residential and commercial properties, but the residential work is where most of our calendar fills.
| 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 Concord homeowners book twice a year, once in late spring after the seed and pollen drop has finished, and once in late fall after the last leaves are down. Across Massachusetts the spring visit usually lands late May to June, and the fall visit runs October to early November. On residential properties we open a gutter in May and find seed casings and pollen paste packed into the downspout elbows, and the crew has to clean that out before the run flows. In the fall it is the wet leaf mat that holds rainwater in the trough. Concord averages 42.6 inches of precipitation a year, with March, April and October the wettest months, and on houses that skipped the fall visit we have seen runs sag under the first ice and pull loose by March.
Under heavy tree cover, with big trees hanging overhead, our customers are on a schedule of every three to four months, because needles and grit pack the downspout elbows between visits and a single clog can back water up under the roof edge. With few or no trees, a single visit in late fall is usually enough to keep the run clean and flowing. Gutters with gutter guards need less frequent visits, but the surface still has to be cleared, because a wet mat on top of the guard is what sends water over the front edge in heavy rainfall.
Here is what the schedule looks like on two kinds of lot. On a lot with few trees the single late-fall visit is usually enough, and the crew leaves the gutters clean and the downspouts open. On a lot with thick tree cover the every three to four month schedule applies, and the crew flushes every downspout on each visit. Whichever tier your lot needs, after the first visit we tell you which one it is and why. Every gutter cleaning service visit ends with a gutter maintenance plan set by what we actually find, not by a calendar that every house has to follow.
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 works across Concord and the surrounding areas, and we run the job from the nearest base we use for the region. To book concord gutter cleaning, call (866) 435-6328 or give us your stories, the approximate size of the house and whether trees hang over the house, and if it is easy we ask for a photo of the house front by text. That is enough for a quote or an estimate, and it is the number we will charge. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for the visit. A twig wedged in an elbow gets cleared by hand, and the crew leaves each run clean before the truck pulls away.
Lead time depends on the season, and our calendar tends to fill in the two busy windows of the year, late spring and late fall, when most customers book their twice-yearly visit. Booking early in those windows is the easiest way to get your gutters on the date you want. Outside those windows it is usually easier to find a date within the week.
Many of the homeowners we work with have had water damage in the past from a gutter that ran over unnoticed, and the goal of the regular visit is to keep your home from water damage. Regular cleanings protect your home, the fascia, the soffit and the foundation, and they give us a chance to catch a loose hanger or a leak at a seam before it becomes a repair. If you want to keep your gutters clear through the year, with or without gutter guards, we can set up the schedule with you when we first come out. Our gutter services are built around that kind of cleaning and maintenance, not around one-time jobs that leave the next storm to find the problem.
The number comes from the stories, the size of the house and what is in the gutters, and we give it to you by phone or text as part of our cleaning services in Concord. We do not quote a range over the phone, because the number we give you is the one we charge.
Most of our customers here book in late spring and late fall, after the seed and pollen drop and again after the leaves are down. If the fall visit gets skipped, we find sagging runs and ice packed into the downspout by March on the houses where that happens.
Same-day slots are not guaranteed, and most open slots come up within the week. We confirm the date with you when you call, so you know exactly when the crew will arrive.
No. The gutter cleaning process happens outside, the crew does not come inside, and the crew sends photos of every run and downspout to your phone before the truck leaves. Leave the side gate unlocked and keep pets inside while the ladders are up, and the crew leaves the yard clean.
Yes. We flush every downspout and flow-test it as part of the visit, and we check that water runs clean at the outlet. A downspout exists to carry water away from your home, so a buried line that backs up gets flagged. Clearing it is a separate job, and we quote it before anyone touches it.
Yes. On our jobs we find a wet leaf and needle mat sitting on top of guards, and water runs over the front edge when that mat gets heavy. We clean the surface, flush every downspout and reseat the guards, and the visit is usually shorter than on an open gutter.
If a run is clean and still sheets water over the edge in rain, the cause is a slope or downspout-size problem, not debris. Send us a short video of it in the rain, with the landscape around the foot of the downspout in frame, and we tell you what it is. We do not sell a second cleaning to fix a slope problem.
It should not. If the crew finds something that changes the job, such as a much heavier buildup than expected, you hear about it and agree to it before work starts, not after.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
