Our own crew cleans gutters and downspouts in Farmington, flushes each outlet and flow-tests it, haul-away included, 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 New York, most of our customers book in the spring and fall, when seed drop and leaf fall are heaviest.
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 give is the number we charge. Companies that price by the linear foot land in a similar place per foot of run, but the stories and the access are what actually drive the total on our jobs.
On our Farmington gutter cleaning jobs, a third story or a steep roof we cannot walk changes the setup, and so does a walk-out basement that puts the back run well up in the air. Gutters nobody has opened in years come down packed with compacted muck, and a clog that has sat for a season takes longer to clear than a fresh one. Guards we have to lift and reseat add time as well. Flushing, flow testing and debris removal are included, and the trough is left clean, never billed as extras. If anything we find changes the job, you hear it and agree to it before work starts, never on the invoice.
Our crew has cleaned gutters on farmington homes where a single leaf-choked run was holding water against the fascia board for a full season. Those were the jobs where the clog had gone unnoticed for a while, and the cleaning itself was the easy part once the crew got set up. We tell you what we see from the driveway and from the first run, and that is the number we give you. Residential properties and commercial properties follow the same rule: the crew sizes the job from the building in front of us, and the quote covers the full gutter cleaning services scope we agreed on. We do not name a flat rate for a house we have not seen, and we do not change it once we are on the ladder unless you approve it first. Check the number in your own paperwork against what we walk through on the phone, and the two should match.
Call (866) 435-6328 for a quote if you want the number before you book. Text a photo of the front of the house and tell us the stories and whether trees hang over the house, and we will come back with a figure. If you clean your gutters on the same schedule every year, the spring and fall visits cost less per visit than one overdue cleaning in the middle of a heavy rain season. Regular gutter cleaning is usually the cheaper path for that reason.
| 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 Farmington NY customers book twice a year. Across New York, spring visits fall in late May or June, after the spring seed and pollen drop finishes, and fall visits in late October or November, after the last leaves come down. When we open a gutter in May we find seeds and pollen paste packed into the elbows and clogged outlets. In November it is the wet leaf mat, and on houses that skipped the fall visit we have seen runs sag and pull loose by March under the weight of ice.
The first ice usually shows up at the eave before anything else. Water that cannot drain sits in the rain gutter, freezes, and backs up under the first course of shingles, which is why a fall clog turns into a winter ceiling stain or a leak at the wall. The rainwater that comes down the roofline in spring tends to carry grit, needle fragments and the odd twig, and those settle into the blockage point at every elbow. On a landscape with heavy tree cover we see the gutters fill faster between visits, so those houses are on every three to four months, because the buildup packs the drain outlets before the next scheduled cleaning. Houses with few or no trees can get by with one or two cleanings a year, usually the late-fall one. Keeping the trough clean is how you protect your home from water damage, and left long enough, that water makes the fascia rot and becomes structural damage to the eave.
If you have gutter guards, gutter maintenance still means clearing the surface a few times a year, though less often than an open gutter. Gutter guards hold back leaves but not the fine grit, so the trough underneath still collects what gets through. We keep the schedule aligned with what we see on site, not on a fixed calendar, so if your gutter services look fine after the first visit we say so and move the next date, and a run that stays clean is a longer gap. Our goal is to keep your gutters clear between visits, not to fill a slot.
After the first visit we tell you which tier 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 crew has worked across Farmington and the surrounding areas, and we keep a regular schedule for Farmington homeowners on the neighborhoods where we have cleaned the most gutters. The estimate comes by phone or text from stories, square footage and tree cover, and a photo of the house front helps if it is easy to send. Booking runs on a short lead time, and the two busiest windows of the year are spring and fall, when most of the calendar fills. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for the visit.
When you get your gutters cleaned on a regular schedule, the crew keeps notes on each run, so the next visit starts from what we found last time rather than from zero. That continuity is part of the gutter cleaning process we follow on every job, and it is the reason we ask about tree cover at the first call. It also keeps the cleaning and maintenance record in one place. A run that drains properly in the first heavy rain after a clean tells us the work held. Call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the house front, and we will book a date.
The number comes from stories and square footage, and we give it to you by phone or text. Tell us the stories and whether trees overhang the roof, and we will quote it before you book.
Our customers here book in late spring and again in late fall, and a clean trough going into winter is the goal. When we wait too long in the fall, the wet leaves and debris have been sitting in the trough through the first freezes, and in New York that is when ice dams start.
Most slots come up within the week, and we confirm the date when you call. If a same-day opening exists we will say so on the phone, and if it does not we will not promise one.
No. The crew works outside, does not come inside, and a homeowner gets photos of every run and outlet on their phone before the truck leaves, and the yard is left clean. Leave the side gate unlocked and keep pets inside while the ladders are up.
Yes, we flush every downspout with water and check the water flow at the outlet, which is how we confirm it carries water away from your home. Where a line runs underground we confirm water is leaving, and clearing a buried line is a separate job that we agree on before we touch it.
Yes, though less often. On a guarded gutter system the guard holds back leaves but not the grit and seed casings, which settle underneath and into the trough. The surface gets cleared on the same schedule as an open gutter, only less frequently.
A gutter that is clean and still overflows in rain has a slope or outlet-size problem, not a clog problem. Send us a photo or a short video of it in the rain, and we will tell you what it is rather than sell a second cleaning.
It should not. The number we give on the phone is the number on the invoice. If the crew finds something that changes the job, we stop, show you the photo, and agree on the change before we go on.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
