Our own crew cleans gutters, every downspout flushed and flow-tested, everything hauled away, 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 is overhead, and the number we give you on the phone is the number on the invoice. On our jobs most customers book in late June to July or late September to October, when the seed drop and the leaf drop are heaviest.
Quoted from stories, size and tree cover, over the phone, with nothing added once the crew is on the roof.
The price for our cleaning services in Helena depends on stories, square footage and what is 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, though that method rarely matches what the crew finds once they are on the ladder.
On our jobs four things move the quote. A third story or a roof too steep to walk takes more time and more equipment. A walk-out basement or sloped lot puts the back run higher than the front suggests. Gutters nobody has opened in years come out packed solid with muck, which takes longer to clear and holds heavy rainfall until it spills over the edge. Gutter guards we have to lift and reseat add a step before we can reach the trough, and that is part of the cleaning and maintenance. Our gutter cleaning process includes downspout flushing, flow testing and debris removal, and none of it is billed as an extra. The crew wants a clean run from end to end before the flow test. If something changes the job, you hear it and agree to it before work starts, never on the invoice.
On a recent job the house had two stories, a heavy canopy over the back run, and gutters that had not been cleaned in several seasons. The quote went up for the time needed to clear the packed run, and the customer approved it on the phone before we set the ladder. Homeowners get a photo of the front of the house by text when they call, which helps us see the roofline before we arrive. The homeowner who calls early gets a firm date and a firm number, and the cleanings stay on the schedule that fits the lot. Most of the work we do here is regular cleaning on residential properties, and the gutter maintenance that follows is planned from the first visit so nothing is a surprise later.
When a run has been left alone, we also check the drainage out of each downspout and note any twig, blockage, leak, or spot where the gutter will sag or pull away, because a gutter that holds water is the first thing to cause structural damage at the eave. We report what we see in writing so you can decide what happens next. The job is to get your gutters working and keep water away from your home, not to sell you a second visit.
| 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 twice a year, once in late June to July after the seed and pollen drop and once in late September to October after the last leaves come down. Plan to clean your gutters on a spring and fall rhythm. Across Montana the pattern is the same, and across Helena the tree cover decides how often.
By the spring visit the gutter system is full of seeds, seed casings and pollen paste that bind into a mat in the elbows of each downspout, and that buildup is the first thing to block an elbow. In fall it is leaves and debris, and in cold weather the first ice and the ice dams at the eave. A single clog at an elbow is enough to back water up the trough. On our jobs the houses that skipped the fall visit showed runs that sag or pull loose by March, which is the real cost of waiting. A rain gutter that stays full holds water against the fascia and invites rot in the board behind it, which is structural damage nobody wants to pay for. Where freezing is a factor, the fall cleaning is the one that protects the eave through winter.
Under heavy tree cover, needles and grit leave clogged downspouts between visits, and those lots go on a three to four month schedule. Homes with few or no trees do well with one cleaning a year in late September to October. Gutters with guards still need the surface cleared, and we check the trough underneath at each visit. Heavy rainfall here tends to hit hardest in May, June and August, so a run that is full going into those months overflows first. When we open a gutter here in May we find the same thing in most lots: a dry mat of seeds that turns to paste the first rain, and an elbow that holds water until it overflows. The landscape around the house decides which schedule fits, and the point of every visit is to keep water away from the foundation.
Some customers on the same street have very different needs. One lot with no trees and a two-story roof is on a yearly schedule and runs clean through the season. The lot under mature trees next door is on a three to four month schedule and needs us to flush every downspout each time. Commercial properties follow the same tiers, and every run gets a photo either way. Our gutter cleaning services run on those same tiers, and after the first visit we tell you which one your lot actually needs.
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 crews have worked across Helena for years. Where a neighborhood is supplied in our records we name it, and we also clean the surrounding areas from the same base. We clean Helena homes, residential and commercial alike, and regular gutter cleaning follows the same booking steps. Booking starts with the quote by phone or text from stories, size and tree cover, plus a photo of the front of the house if it is easy to send. Lead time depends on the calendar, and we will tell you the first open date when you call.
The two busy windows of the year are the spring and fall visits, late June to July and late September to October, when our calendar fills fastest. Booking early in those months gets you a firm date to clean your gutters, whichever gutter cleaning service you pick. Once a run is clean, the water flow test is the last check before we pack up, and it catches any sag, buildup or clog that is still holding water. We call before we come and nobody needs to be home, so a short call on the day before is enough. Call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the front of the house to book a date. For commercial properties the schedule is set per building, and we work around your hours.
If you are weighing a quote, you can also ask for a written estimate and compare the scope line by line, including the drainage check at each downspout. We do not hold a slot without a call, and we confirm the date before anything is booked.
Our crew prices it from stories and size, and we give the number by phone or text. There is no fixed figure we print here because the same two-story house can take very different time depending on what is in the gutters. Call (866) 435-6328 with your address and the number of stories and we will give you a firm estimate from those.
Our customers here book in late June to July after the seed drop and in late September to October after the leaves come down. If you wait past fall, we see sagging runs and ice dams by March on the houses that skipped that visit. Under heavy trees the schedule tightens to every three to four months, and that is how you keep your gutters clean all year.
Availability in Helena MT depends on the calendar, and most slots come up within the week. We confirm a date when you call, so you know exactly when the crew will arrive.
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 and keep pets inside while the ladders are up.
Yes, we check gutters and downspouts together, and every downspout is flushed and flow-tested at the outlet. A blockage or clog shows up there, and where a downspout feeds an underground line we check that water leaves at the end, and if it does not we report it. Clearing a buried line is a separate job and is quoted before anyone touches it.
Yes. On our jobs leaves and needles sit on top of the guard, and grit settles underneath where it can still pack the trough. We lift the panels, clear underneath, flush every downspout and reseat the guards, which usually runs shorter than an open gutter.
A clean gutter that still spills rainwater over the edge has a slope, capacity or downspout size problem, not a dirty trough. Send us 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 issue. Fixing the real cause is how you protect your home from water damage.
Not unless something changes the job, and if it does you hear about it and approve it before work starts. Every one of our gutter services is quoted the same way, in town and in the surrounding areas, and 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.
