Our own crew cleans gutters in Clarkstown NY, flushes each run, tests the flow, and hauls the material away. You get photos of every run before we leave, so a clean job is one you can check. The price comes from your stories, your square footage and how much tree cover is over the roof, and the number we give you on the phone is the number on the invoice. Across New York, most of our customers book in spring and fall, and we keep the same crew on the same schedule every year. Clarkstown homeowners who keep up with cleanings avoid the costly rot, and a homeowner who waits usually finds it in the fascia first.
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 much square footage sits under the roof, and what is already packed 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 the house is measured, but a quote built from the stories and size you tell us is a clean figure you can check before anyone climbs a ladder.
What moves the quote on our jobs is usually the same handful of things. A third story, or a pitch steep enough that nobody can walk it, means more time on the ladder along the roofline. A walk-out basement or a sloped lot puts the back run much higher off the ground than the front. Gutters nobody has opened in years come out packed solid with buildup that takes longer to clear, and guards we have to lift and reseat add a step to every run across the gutter system. Each run is flushed and flow-tested, and debris removal is included in the quote and never billed as extras. If anything we find changes the job, we raise it before work starts, not on the invoice.
On our jobs in Clarkstown homes the variation tracks the house more than the street. When we open a gutter that has gone two seasons without a visit, the clog is almost always at the first elbow below the outlet, and clearing it takes longer than the clean run beside it. That is the main reason two houses of the same size can land a little apart. A photo of the front of the house sent by text lets us see the stories and the height before we call you back, which keeps the phone quote close to the final number.
Work like this comes down to what the crew can see and reach. We clean the full run, check the water flow at each downspout, and note any sag or drainage problem in the report, not as a sale. A run that drains properly keeps water away from your home, which is the whole point of the check. Residential and commercial jobs are priced on the same principle, because residential properties and commercial properties both come down to what is on the building, how many runs, and how high they sit. If you want a number before you commit to a date, call (866) 435-6328 or text us a photo of the front of the house and we will give you a written estimate.
| 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 Clarkstown customers book twice a year, once in spring after the seed and pollen drop, and once in fall after the last leaves and debris come down. On our jobs the spring visit usually finds seeds and seed casings packed into the elbows, which is where the first blockage forms, with pollen paste sitting on top of the leaf guards. We flush every downspout while we are up there. The fall visit is the one where you clean your gutters before winter, and it finds the wet leaf mat. On houses that skipped that visit we often see runs that have sagged or pulled loose by the time the snow settles, and a sag like that can lead to structural damage. Keeping to the schedule helps protect your home from water damage.
Where freeze risk is part of the picture, the fall cleaning does the most work. Rainwater that sits in a clogged gutter over a cold stretch can freeze at the eave and push the shingles up from underneath, and we see that most on houses that were cleaned last spring and not since. Under heavy tree cover or a busy landscape, needles and grit pack the outlets between visits, and customers in that situation are on a schedule of every three to four months. Keeping to that schedule keeps the trough open. Few or no trees over the house means once a year in late fall is usually enough to keep the water moving.
Guards change the schedule, but not to zero. A guarded gutter still collects material on top of the guard, and we clean that surface and check the water is getting through, usually less often than an open gutter. After the first visit we tell you which of those tiers your lot actually needs, based on what we found in the trough and at the outlets, and we put the next visit on the calendar before we leave. Keep your gutters on that calendar and the water keeps moving.
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 covers Clarkstown from the nearest base and works across Clarkstown as a whole, along with the surrounding areas. Booking starts with a quote by phone or text, built from stories, square footage and tree cover, and a photo of the front of the house helps if it is easy to send. Lead time is set by the calendar, and when we give you a date we will tell you what that lead time actually is. Our schedule fills up in the two busy windows of the year, spring and late fall, so booking early in those months keeps more options open. Our gutter services are booked the same way, and gutter maintenance customers get the same date-first process.
We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for exterior work. Every Clarkstown cleaning is booked the same way for every house, and a clean finish is part of the job. Some dates take a small booking fee to hold the slot, and we tell you about it before you book, not after. Once the crew is on site, the work is done from the ground and the ladders, and the photos of every run arrive on your phone before the truck leaves. If you want to get your gutters on the calendar, call (866) 435-6328 for cleaning and maintenance or text us a photo of the house.
The number comes from the stories, the square footage and what is in the gutters, and our cleaning services in Clarkstown get that quote by phone or text before we schedule anything. The quote we give is the number on the invoice, and flushing and haul-off are already in it.
Our customers here book in late spring after the seeds and pollen come down, and again in late fall after the leaves drop. If the fall visit gets skipped, we often find runs that have sagged or pulled loose by March on houses that went through a freeze.
Same-day is only offered when our calendar has an open slot that day, and we confirm the date when you call. Most slots come up within the week, so calling early in the busy windows is the easiest way to get on the schedule.
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 flush every run and check the flow at the outlet, so clogged downspouts get caught before the next storm. If water is not leaving through a buried drain line, we tell you, but clearing an underground line is a separate job that we quote before anyone starts. A run that looks clean from the ladder can still be backed up underground.
Yes, usually less often than an open gutter. On our jobs we find needles, seed casings and the odd twig threaded through the guard, with grit sitting on top of it, which stops the water going in even when the trough looks clean. That can show up first as a leak at the ceiling, not as a full gutter.
If a clean gutter still sends water over the edge in heavy rainfall, the problem is usually slope, capacity or an outlet that is too small, not the material in the trough. Send us a photo or a short video of it in the rain and we will tell you what it is; we will not sell a second cleaning for a slope problem. A rain gutter that overflows after a clean is a sizing or pitch problem, and we say so.
It should not. If the crew finds something that changes the job, such as a run that cannot be reached safely from the ground, we tell you before work starts and you agree to the change first. Nothing is added to the invoice that was not agreed on the phone.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
