Our crew cleans gutters and downspouts across St. Louis, flow-tests each run, and hauls the leaves off. Each run gets flushed, and you get photos of every run before we leave. The price comes from your stories, your home's size and how much tree cover hangs over the roof, and the number we give you on the phone is the number on the invoice. Most St. Louis homes we visit book in spring and fall. Call (866) 435-6328 and we will walk you through the timing.
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 it is, and what is sitting in the gutters. We quote it over the phone or by text from those three things, and that number is what we charge. Some gutter cleaning services price by the linear foot, which lands in a similar place per foot of run, but we would rather give you one number for the whole house. Commercial properties get the same treatment, a price built from stories, size and what is in the gutters.
On our jobs, a few things move the price. 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 sloped lot raises the effective height of the back roofline. A rain gutter nobody has opened in years comes down packed with compacted debris, and that takes longer than a light clog. Guards we have to lift and reseat add time, and a gutter is not clean until the water runs through it. Flushing, flow testing and haul-off are included, water flow is checked at every outlet, and none of it is billed as an extra. A run that stays full for a season invites structural damage and fascia rot, which is why we clear it before that happens. If something changes the job, you hear it before work starts, never on the invoice.
Here is how it looks on a local job. One customer had a two-story home with heavy tree cover, and the gutters were packed with leaves and debris from the fall. The crew found a sag in the back run and a clog at two elbows, and the price reflected the extra time to clear the buildup and flush the clogged downspouts. The fix was clearing the blockage so water runs away from your home. Every number we give follows the same rule: what we see up the ladder is what you pay for.
| 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 in St. Louis MO book twice a year, once in late spring after the seed and pollen drop, and once in fall after the last leaves come down. When we open a gutter here in May, we find seed casings and pollen paste packed into the bends of the drop pipe. A gutter that looks clean from the ground can still be packed at the elbows. In November it is the wet leaf mat, and in our experience the houses that skipped the fall visit show runs that have sagged by March. We get about 43.9 inches of precipitation a year here, and April through June is the wettest stretch, so heavy rainfall finds any clog fast. Heavy rainwater on a clogged roofline has nowhere to go, so it runs over the edge.
Under heavy tree cover, we see residential properties on a schedule of every three to four months, because needles, twig and grit pack the runs between visits. With few or no trees, once a year in late fall is usually enough to keep the runs clean. Near a busy road, active construction or heavy landscape work, the grit load goes up, and we shorten the interval the same way. Guards cut the frequency, but gutter maintenance still means clearing the surface until it is clean.
Regular gutter cleaning keeps a sag from turning into a repair. Residential and commercial gutters follow the same seasonal pattern. The gutter cleaning process runs on the same logic: the schedule follows what the lot actually drops. After the first visit we tell you which tier your lot needs, and we put the blockage and estimate in writing so you can see what we found.
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 St. Louis gutter cleaning crew works from the nearest base, covering every neighborhood we serve. We include debris removal in every job, and we flush every downspout until the water runs clean. Booking is simple: call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the front of the house, and we work out the number from your stories, your size and your tree cover. The busy windows on our calendar are late spring and late fall, when most homeowners want the visit, so we fill those first. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for the visit.
Clean gutters are how you protect your home from water damage, and a good cleaning keeps the leak risk down at the eaves and the fascia line. Most of our cleanings go to homeowners who want the job done once and done right, and our crew keeps the schedule tight to match. Our gutter services include cleaning and maintenance on the same visit. If you have a cluster of houses or a larger property, we can plan the visits around the surrounding areas in the same trip.
A homeowner with a two-story house gets the number from stories and size, by phone or text. We do not give a range on the page, because the same two-story house can run very differently depending on what is in the gutters. The number we give you is the number on the invoice.
Most of our customers here book in late spring and late fall, after the seed and pollen drop and again after the last leaves. Our fall visit usually lands in November to early December. If you wait past the first hard freeze to clean your gutters, the wet leaf mat is harder to clear and the runs are more likely to sag by March. Booking in spring or fall is how you keep your gutters running clear.
We offer same-day cleaning services in St. Louis when a slot is open, but most come up within the week, and we confirm a date when you call. Ask us what is open when you call to get your gutters on the schedule, and we will tell you straight.
No, you do not need to be home. Our crew works outside, does not come inside, and sends photos of every run to your phone before the truck leaves. Leave the side gate unlocked and keep pets inside while the ladders are up.
Yes, every run is flushed and flow-tested until the water runs clean at the outlet, and we check the drainage there. Clearing a buried drain line is a separate job, and we price it before anyone touches it.
Yes, gutter guards still need the surface cleared, usually less often. Needles and seed casings sit on top of the guard, and once that mat is wet the water runs over the front edge. Guards still need cleaning and maintenance, so we clear the surface and check that water is getting in.
A gutter that is clean and still sheets water over the edge has a slope or capacity problem, not a clogging problem. Send us a photo or a short video in the rain, and we tell you what it is. We do not sell a second cleaning for a slope problem.
It should not. If the crew finds something that changes the job, you hear it and agree to it before they start. The quote on the phone is the price on the invoice.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
