Our own crew cleans gutters in North Castle, every downspout flushed and flow-tested, debris 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 over the roof, and the number we give you on the phone is the number on the invoice. Our North Castle customers usually book the fall visit in late October to November, and across New York spring visits land in late May to June. Call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the roofline and we can give you the first date.
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 in the gutters, and we quote it over the phone or by text from those three things. Our gutter cleaning services are priced the same way for residential properties and commercial properties, and the number we quote is the number we charge. Companies that price by length land in a similar place per linear foot, but on our jobs the height and the packing matter more than the run.
What moves the quote on our jobs is usually a third story or a roof too steep to walk, a walk-out basement that puts the back run far up the wall, gutters nobody has opened in years, which take longer to clean, and guards we have to lift and reseat before anything else happens. A gutter with compacted buildup takes longer than a clog of loose leaves, and we see it at every north castle homes address where the gutter has gone without a visit for a season or two. A sag in a run tells us water has been sitting in the trough, so drainage has already failed there, and a sag is one of the first things the crew looks for before the ladder goes up.
Downspout flushing, flow testing and debris removal are included in the price and never billed as extras. We flush every downspout and watch the water flow out the bottom, and we clean out the whole gutter system while the ladder is up, which is how we know the water is moving away from your home and keeping water away from the foundation. Anything that changes the job, such as a blockage we did not expect or a leak we find behind a run, is raised with you before work starts, never on the invoice. For residential and commercial jobs alike, that rule is the same.
Two houses with the same stories and size can still land on different numbers when one has been left alone for years and the other has been on a schedule. Ask us about your own house on the phone, and we tell you how it compares before anything is booked.
If you want regular gutter cleaning on a schedule rather than one visit, we set the schedule from the first visit and quote each one at the same rate. Clean your gutters on time and the next visit is faster and cheaper to schedule, which is why we ask about the last time anyone was up there. Call (866) 435-6328, text a photo of the roofline, or book a date and we quote it from there.
| 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.
Across New York, spring visits land in late May to June, after the seed and pollen drop. For North Castle, we schedule the fall visit for late October to November, after the last leaves come down. On our jobs in May the downspout elbows are packed with seeds and pollen paste, and in November it is the wet leaf mat and the leaves and debris that have to come out before the first hard freeze. A clean in each window helps you keep your gutters working through the season.
On houses that skipped the fall visit, we often find ice at the eave, runs that have sagged or pulled loose by March, and fascia starting to rot. North Castle sees about 34 inches of snow a year, mostly from January to March and in December, and the freeze risk is real, so rainwater that cannot leave the gutters and downspouts in the fall becomes an ice dam by winter. The gutter fills, the roofline gets wet, and by spring a clog that started with leaves has turned into a plug the crew has to chip out. Heavy rainfall tests every run, and North Castle averages 51.4 inches of precipitation a year, with the wettest months in August, September and December. A clean before winter helps protect your home from water damage, and it keeps structural damage off the fascia and soffit.
Under heavy tree cover, big trees over the roof, our customers are on every three to four months, because needles and grit pack the downspouts between visits. Near a busy road or a construction site the same schedule applies, since the dust settles into the trough faster than leaves do. Few or no trees and a house with a simple roof is enough on once a year in late fall. Guards need a clean less often, but the surface still has to be cleared, and that surface work is part of gutter maintenance, because a guard that holds leaves on top still lets the grit and the seed casings through.
We keep a short list of the North Castle NY properties we service on each tier of our gutter maintenance schedule. Our practice is to check the first visit against the neighborhood and the trees, then tell you which schedule your lot needs. After the first clean we tell you which tier your lot actually needs, and you can book the next date on the phone or by text.
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 across North Castle and the surrounding areas, and we clear the neighborhoods where we have done jobs, including the streets with the heaviest tree cover, where the leaf load is highest in fall. Every north castle gutter cleaning visit is set around the day and the weather rather than the distance, because we cover the city as a whole and reach it from the nearest base. The same first-visit check goes to north castle homeowners, whatever the street.
To get your gutters on the calendar, call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the front of the house. From the photo and the three things we ask about, stories, size and tree cover, we give a quote on the phone. Lead time depends on the season, and in the two busy windows of the year, spring and fall, the calendar fills first. Our gutter services cover cleaning and upkeep of the whole gutter system as one job, and a homeowner who books early gets to pick the day. Our cleanings are booked with a call before we come, a twig caught in a downspout gets pulled before the flush, and nobody needs to be home for the work to happen.
Some customers ask about gutter guards and whether a house with guards is still on a schedule. For those, we set the dates from the first visit and confirm each one by phone, so the clean lands before the leaves do. If you have a question about your own gutter cleaning process, the crew answers it on the call rather than sending you a form. Ask for a written estimate if you want one before you book the date.
The number for a two-story house comes from its stories and size, and our cleaning services in north castle are quoted by phone or text rather than from a chart. We do not quote a figure in a sentence before we know the house.
Our customers here book in late spring and late fall. If you wait, the leaves and debris settle into the rain gutter, and by the time the rain comes the runs are already full.
When you call, we confirm a date that suits the lot, and clogged downspouts get checked first.
No, you do not need to be home. 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 downspout and check where it drains as part of the whole gutter system, including underground lines where we can see the outlet. A clean run that drains badly still needs a look, and clearing a buried line is a separate job we quote before we touch it.
If the gutter has guards, it still needs cleaning. Under guards on our jobs we find seed casings and grit sitting on top of the screen and a wet leaf mat underneath, so the surface still has to come off.
If the gutters still overflow after we leave, the problem is usually slope or capacity rather than debris, and it shows most in heavy rainfall. Send us a photo or a short video of it in the rain, and we tell you what it is rather than selling a second clean. A sag or rot at the fascia can point to structural damage, and we say so on the call.
The price changes only if the crew finds something that changes the job, and you hear about it before work starts, never after.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
