Our own crew cleans gutters in Lexington, with every outlet flushed and flow-tested, leaves hauled off, and photos of every run before we leave. The price comes from stories, size and tree cover, and the number we give on the phone is the number on the invoice. Across Massachusetts, most of our customers book in the spring and fall, after the seed drop and again after the last leaves come down.
Quoted from stories, size and tree cover, over the phone, with nothing added once the crew is on the roof.
The price depends on stories, square footage 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. Companies that price by the linear foot land in a similar place per foot of run, but a number per foot tells you little about a house with a steep back roof, so we start from the building itself.
On our jobs, a few things move the quote. A third story or a roof too steep to walk takes longer and needs a boom or scissor lift. A walk-out basement puts the back run twenty-four feet up with no ground to stand on. Gutters nobody has opened in years take a deeper clean, with compacted leaf mat packed in the clog, and guards we have to lift and reseat add time on every run. Flushing, water flow testing and haul-off are included and never billed as extras. Anything that changes the job gets raised before work starts, never on the invoice.
Here is how it looks on a Lexington house we cleaned in the spring. The gutters on the front ran clean, but the back valley had a leaf mat two inches deep, and water was running behind the fascia where the drainage had stopped. The leaves and debris came out, the outlets were flushed until the water ran clear at the bottom, and the crew photographed the sag at the rear run so the owner could see it before anything else was decided. Most lots in Lexington come in on the lower end of that range; the ones with heavy tree cover tend to be the ones with the lots of buildup.
We clean for lexington homes and run our gutter cleaning services the same way, whether it is a house or one of our commercial properties on a per-building schedule when a site needs it. For a rain gutter that still spills in heavy rainfall after the first visit, even one that was clean when we left, we check for structural damage and tell you plainly whether a cleaning will fix it. Clogged downspouts and rainwater that will not drain are the usual cause, and the fix is often debris removal and a flush, but a sag, a leak at a seam, or rot in the fascia means the gutter system needs a repair, not a cleaning. Good water flow carries water away from the foundation, and we measure how well the system does that before we leave.
| 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.
On our Lexington jobs, most customers book two cleanings a year, in late May or June after the seed and pollen drop, and again in late October or early November after the leaves are down. When we open a gutter here in May we find seeds and pollen paste packed into the elbows, and when we open one in November we find a wet leaf mat that holds rainwater against the roofline. Houses that skipped the fall visit are the ones where runs sag or pull loose by March, once the ice gets into the clog and the blockage freezes solid.
Under heavy tree cover, every three to four months is the rhythm we see work, because needles, twig fragments and grit pack the downspouts faster than a twice-a-year visit can keep up with. With few or no trees, you can clean your gutters once a year in late fall and it holds up. Gutter guards need less frequent visits, but the surface still gets cleared, because whatever sits on top of a guard turns into the same paste over time.
Most of the commercial sites we service run on a schedule set by the building, not the season. Residential properties and residential and commercial work alike in Lexington MA start with a first visit that tells us the rhythm, and after that we can set up regular gutter cleaning on a fixed calendar against what we actually found in the runs. Ask for a written estimate with the visit dates on it, since that is the easiest way to plan your gutter maintenance, and we will hold a date for you.
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 clean gutters across Lexington and the surrounding areas from the nearest base, and the crew knows the lots and the trees. To book lexington gutter cleaning, you call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the front of the house and a rough count of stories and square footage, and we give you the quote on the spot. A photo of the roofline and the landscape beside the house helps us spot any tree cover or steep pitch before the crew is on the ladder, so the number holds when they arrive.
Lead time changes with the season, and the two busy windows of the year fill first, which is why booking early in May and early in October makes sense. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for the visit. The crew works on the gutters and downspouts from outside, will flush every downspout, and sends photos of every run to your phone once each one is clean, so you see the work without standing in the yard. Keep cars and trash cans away from your home on the day so the crew can reach each run. If you want to keep your gutters working without thinking about them, a fixed date each season is the simplest way to protect your home from water damage before it starts, and our gutter services can be booked on the same calendar.
We do this work for each homeowner who wants a clean system and a straight answer, and we keep our calendar honest about what we can take on. Lexington is a place where we want to be the crew that comes back every season, so each visit is written up for the next one.
Our cleaning services in Lexington are priced from stories and square footage, and we give you the number by phone or text once we know the house. We will not quote a figure you can't check against the job itself.
Most of our customers here book in late spring and again in late fall, and that rhythm holds up well on our jobs. If you want to get your gutters on the calendar before the clog forms, book the fall visit early. Wait until winter and the clog that formed in November is harder to clear, and runs that were fine in the fall can sag by March, with rot following behind them.
Same-day depends on our calendar that week, so call (866) 435-6328 and we check it while you are on the line.
No. Our gutter cleaning process runs outside only: the crew does not come inside, and it sends photos of every run and outlet to your phone before the truck leaves. Leave the side gate unlocked and keep pets inside while the ladders are up.
Yes, every drain gets flushed and we watch the water until it runs clean at the bottom. If a drain feeds an underground line, we check that water is leaving at the outlet; clearing a buried line is a separate job and we quote it before anyone starts.
Yes, but less often. On our jobs, guards keep the leaves out but not the needles, seeds and grit, which settle on top of the guard and turn into paste once it rains. We lift the panels, clear underneath and reseat them, and that cleaning and maintenance visit is priced as a guarded system.
If a gutter that is clean still spills water over the edge in rain, the gutter system is usually at fault: slope, capacity or outlet size, not a clogged trough. Send us a photo or a short video of it in the rain and we tell you what it is; we will not sell a second cleaning for a slope problem.
It should not. Anything that changes the job is raised with you before work starts, and you agree to it then. The number 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.
