Our own crew cleans gutters in Mehlville MO, with every downspout flushed and flow-tested, the leaves hauled away, and photos of every run before we leave. The price comes from your stories, the size of the house and how much tree cover is over the roof, and the number we give on the phone is the number on your invoice. Most of our homeowners book for spring and fall, so the calendar fills early in those seasons. Call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the gutters to book a date.
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 gutter system. We quote it by phone or text from those three things, and the number we quote is the number we charge. Other companies price by the linear foot, which lands in a similar place per run, but we would rather give you one number for the whole house.
What moves the quote on our jobs is usually a third story or a roof too steep to walk, a walk-out basement that puts the back run far up the wall, gutters nobody has opened in years, and guards we have to lift and reseat. Downspout flushing, flow testing and debris removal are included and are never billed as extras. If something we find changes the job, you hear about it before work starts, not on the invoice.
Heavy canopy neighborhoods tend to show more clog and buildup at the bends, and the cost tracks the cleaning time that buildup adds. Most of the Mehlville homes we open have leaves and debris packed into the trough and clogged downspouts that have been running slow for a season, so the flush is where the time goes. We check the water flow at every outlet before we leave. A bit of drainage trouble at the outlet, or a sag that needs a closer look, gets photographed and reported so you know what you are paying for.
Our gutter cleaning services for commercial properties and residential properties are quoted on the same basis: what the building has, how it drains, and how much material the crew will be clearing. A rain gutter that holds water is not a cleaning problem alone, and we say so when we see structural damage rather than pricing it as a clean.
The point of the quote is to keep water away from your home and the fascia before rot sets into the board. If a run is already overflowing, a clean will stop it only if the cause is debris. If the cause is slope, we tell you that and do not sell a second cleaning.
| 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 two cleanings a year, once in late spring after the seed and pollen drop, and once in late fall after the last leaves. Across Missouri the pattern is the same, but the timing shifts a little with the weather. When we open a gutter here in May we find seeds, seed casings and pollen paste packed into the elbows. In late fall it is the wet leaf mat, and on houses that skipped the fall visit we have seen runs sagging and pulling loose by March from the weight of ice.
Under heavy tree cover, we see the gutter clog faster, so those houses are on every three to four months. Needles, grit and the odd twig pack the drop pipes between visits, and the rainwater backs up before anyone notices. A house with few or no trees usually needs one cleaning a year in late fall. Houses with guards still need the surface cleared, just less often, and the seed and leaf loads still reach the trough under the guard.
The area gets about 43.7 inches of precipitation a year, and heavy rainfall lands in April, May and June, when a clogged run overflows first. Near a busy road or a construction site the grit load goes up, so those lots tend toward the shorter interval as well. The roofline and the blockage at the first elbow tell us most of what we need to know on the first visit. Ask for an estimate and we will tell you what the lot needs on that visit.
Our crew handles residential and commercial work on the same schedule logic, and the regular gutter cleaning service includes gutter maintenance for both. After the first visit we tell you which tier your lot actually needs, and if you want to clean your gutters on a schedule rather than when they overflow, we book the next date at the same time.
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 has worked across Mehlville, and the crew covers the city from the nearest base without us naming it here. When you call or text, we quote from your stories, the size of the house and the tree cover, and a photo of the front of the house helps if it is easy to send. Booking a Mehlville gutter cleaning takes one call to (866) 435-6328 or one text with a photo, and we will get your gutters on the calendar. Lead time depends on the calendar that week, and we confirm a date before we hang up. Our calendar fills in the two busy windows of the year, late spring and late fall, so booking early in those months keeps your slot.
We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home. The crew works outside on the gutters and downspouts, and we send photos of every run to your phone when the job is done. Every homeowner who gets a cleaning from us gets the same thing: a clear quote, the work done properly, and a clear record of what the gutters looked like. Our gutter services are built around that, so the first visit is also where we see how the house drains and whether anything needs attention before the next season.
If you have a house that has been overflowing for a while, the first visit is a good time to get it looked at. We will protect your home from water damage by clearing the trough, and we flush every downspout on every visit. We will also tell you plainly whether the rest of the system is sound. Keep your gutters clean by booking the cleaning and maintenance on the schedule the first visit sets, and the surrounding areas of the house stay dry.
The number comes from stories and size, and we give it to you by phone or text. A two-story house with normal tree cover is quoted from those two things, and the quote is what you pay. Downspout flushing and haul-off are in it.
Most of our customers here book in late spring and late fall. If you wait past the first freeze in late fall, the wet leaves and the ice can already have pulled a run loose by March. Our crew can get you on the calendar before that point.
We provide cleaning services in Mehlville on the first open date, and most slots come up within the week. We confirm a date when you call, and we do not promise same-day unless we have an opening that day.
No. Our crew works outside, does not come inside, and sends photos of every run and downspout to your phone before the truck leaves. Leave the side gate unlocked, keep pets inside while the ladders are up, and move loose mulch off the landscape beds below the runs.
Yes, we flush every downspout and watch the water until it runs clear at the bottom. Where a downspout feeds an underground line, we check that water is leaving at the outlet and tell you if it is not. Clearing a buried line is a separate job and is quoted before anyone starts.
Yes, but less often. On our jobs we find leaves, seeds and grit sitting on top of the gutter guards and under them, and water that never got into the trough. We lift the panels, clear underneath, flush the drop pipes and reseat them.
If a clean gutter still sheets water over the edge in rain, the cause is slope or downspout size, not debris, and a leak at a joint usually shows up in the same spot. Send us a photo or a short video of it in the rain and we will tell you what it is. We do not sell a second cleaning for a slope problem.
It should not. If we find something that changes the job, 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.
