Our own crew cleans gutters on Hempstead NY homes, flushing every downspout and testing the flow, hauling the debris away, and sending 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 house, and the number we give you on the phone is the number on the invoice. Across New York, most of our customers book a clean in spring and fall, once the seeds and the leaves have come down.
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, its square footage and what is sitting in the gutters. We give you an estimate over the phone or by text from those three things, and the number we quote is the number we charge. Other gutter cleaning services price by the linear foot and land in a similar place per foot, but the foot count alone rarely tells you what the crew will find up top.
What moves the quote on our jobs is what we see when we get up the ladder. A third story or a pitch too steep to walk takes longer and needs a boom or scissor lift. A walk-out basement or a sloped lot raises the effective height of the roofline. A gutter system that nobody has opened in years holds compacted buildup that has to be dug out by hand before a clean is possible, and guards we have to lift and reseat add time. Downspout flushing, flow testing and haul-off are included and are never billed as extras. If anything changes the job, you hear about it before work starts, not on the invoice.
Of the Hempstead homes we have cleaned for, the number that surprised people most was not the height but the buildup. One house had a sag in the back run that had held a standing clog for two seasons, and the leaves and debris had packed the elbows until water flow was almost zero. Getting it clean took the full visit, and the quote had already allowed for it because the caller told us about the back gutter. Calling ahead with the photo of the front of the house lets us spot these things before we arrive.
The same questions come up for commercial properties, where the scope is a whole building and the number is set per building. Our crew handles residential and commercial jobs alike, but for residential properties the rain gutter is the first thing we look at, then the clogged downspouts, because a small blockage at the elbow can cause structural damage to the fascia board behind it when heavy rainfall has nowhere to go. Keeping water away from the wall is the reason the job is done properly the first time.
| 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 customers book two cleanings a year, and the timing follows the trees. Across New York, the spring visit runs late May to June, after seed and pollen drop, and the fall visit runs November to early December, after the last leaves are down. When we open a gutter in late May we find seeds, seed casings and pollen paste packed into the elbows. When we open one in November we find a wet leaf mat, and on houses that skipped the fall visit we find runs that have sagged or pulled loose by March under the weight of ice, with the fascia behind them starting to rot. In a freeze-belt town, the fall visit is the one that keeps the ice dam from forming at the eave.
Under heavy tree cover, with big trees hanging over the house, our customers are on a schedule of every three to four months, because a twig, some grit and seed casings pack the elbows and drop pipes between visits, and a single clog can back rainwater up under the shingles. Homes with few or no trees, on a landscape with no big canopy, do fine if they clean your gutters once a year in late fall. Gutter guards still need the surface cleared, and we book those less often than open gutters, but they do not skip gutter maintenance entirely.
On a street near a busy road or a construction site, we find the gutters fill faster than on a quiet block, so the same tree-cover rule applies. Regular gutter cleaning and maintenance on a steady schedule keeps a residential gutter clear, and that is the cheapest way to avoid the water damage we see when a run has been left alone for two or three seasons. It is also far less work than a debris removal job later.
After the first visit we tell you which tier your lot actually needs. Call (866) 435-6328 to get your gutters on the schedule, or text us a photo of the roofline and we will say which visit fits your house.
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 works a regular route through town and the surrounding areas, so the same crew that cleaned your block last spring is usually the one that comes back. Booking starts with a quote by phone or text from your stories, your size and whether trees hang over the house. A photo of the front of the house helps us see the roofline before we arrive, and it is the fastest way to get a firm number.
The calendar fills in two busy windows: late spring when the seeds drop, and late fall when the leaves come down. Heavy rainfall in March, September and December is when a backed-up run shows itself first, so if you want a slot in either window, book early. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for the visit, so the crew never pulls you away from your home. Our crew keeps every appointment window tight so the clean starts on time and you know when to expect us.
We offer Hempstead gutter cleaning for homeowners who want to protect your home from water damage, as well as for the commercial properties and buildings that need the same kind of regular gutter services. The gutter cleaning process is the same whatever the building: clear the gutters, flush every downspout, check the gutters and downspouts for drainage, and keep your gutters from becoming the source of a leak that gets into the wall. Call (866) 435-6328 to reach the crew or text a photo to start.
Our cleaning services in Hempstead are priced from the stories and the square footage, and we give you the number by phone or text. Tell us about the trees over the house and whether the gutters have been cleaned in the past year, because those two things change the time on the ladder. A gutter cleaning service with its own crew should give you one number up front, and ours is the number on the invoice.
Across New York, the spring visit runs late May to June and the fall visit runs November to early December, after the leaves are down. Across Hempstead, most homeowners follow the same two windows. If you wait past the first hard freeze, the wet leaf mat and any ice at the eave can cause runs to sag, and that is harder to fix than a clean.
Same-day depends on our schedule that week. Most slots come up within the week, and we confirm a date when you call so you know when we are coming to do the clean.
No, you do not need to be home. Our crew works outside and does not come inside. Whether or not you are there, a homeowner gets photos of every run and downspout on the phone before the truck leaves. Leave the side gate unlocked and keep pets inside while the ladders are up.
Yes, every downspout is flushed with water and watched 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 touches it.
Yes, guarded gutters still need cleaning, though less often. On our jobs we find twigs and seed casings sitting on top of the guard and roof grit settling underneath, and once that mat is wet, the water runs over the front edge. We clean the surface and check that the water is getting in.
A gutter that is clean and still overflows in rain has a slope or downspout problem, not a debris problem. Send us a clip of the run during the rain, or a few photos, and we will tell you what it is. Selling you a second cleaning would not fix a slope problem, so we will not.
Not unless we find something that changes the job, and if we do, you hear about it and agree to it before work starts. Otherwise the quote you got by phone is what you pay.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
