Our own crew cleans gutters for homeowners here, clearing each outlet until the water runs clear, hauling the mess off, and sending 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 hangs over the eaves, and the figure we give on the phone is the figure on your invoice. Most of our customers here book in the spring and fall, and we have seen enough seasons to know that a clog looks harmless right up until it spills over. If it is time to clean your gutters, call us and we will set a date.
Quoted from stories, size and tree cover, over the phone, with nothing added once the crew is on the roof.
Our gutter cleaning services are priced from the same three things on every job: how many stories the building has, its square footage and what is sitting in the gutters. We quote residential and commercial properties the same way, by phone or text, and the number we quote is the number we charge. Other companies price by the linear foot, which lands in a similar place per run, but we would rather give you one number for the whole building than make you add it up yourself.
On residential properties around here, the things that move a quote are consistent. A third story or a roof too steep to walk takes longer and more ladder work. A walk-out basement puts the back run far higher off the ground than the front. Gutters nobody has opened in years come out packed with compacted grit that has to be cleared by hand, and the trough is left clean when the crew is finished. Any gutter system left full for years usually needs more than a quick rinse. Poor drainage at the low end of a run is the first thing the crew checks. Guards we have to lift and reseat add time. Flushing every outlet, testing the flow and debris removal are included, never billed as extras, and anything that changes the job gets raised before work starts, not on the invoice. A leak at a seam is a repair, and we tell you so instead of folding it into the cleaning.
On a recent job in the wooded part of town, at one of the local homes under heavy tree cover, the crew found the back run sagging and packed to the elbow, with water running behind the fascia at the low end. The sag and the buildup were the whole story; the clog was gone once the run was clean and the outlet was flushed. We tell you what we find before we charge for it, and if a run still sheets water over the edge after cleaning, we say that plainly, because that is a slope problem and not a second cleaning. Ask for the quote on the phone at (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the house front and we will tell you where your gutters stand.
| 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 here book twice a year: once in late spring, after the seeds and pollen have dropped, and once in fall, after the last leaves come down. The spring window runs late May to June across New York, and in Wappinger the fall visit falls between October and early November. In late spring we open gutters full of seed casings and pollen paste pressed into the elbows of the clogged downspouts. In fall it is the wet leaf mat, and on houses that skipped the fall visit we often find a run that has sagged or pulled loose by winter, which is exactly the kind of rainwater blockage that gets expensive once it reaches the roofline.
Under heavy tree cover, every three to four months is the schedule that keeps a clog from forming, because needles and grit pack the gutters and downspouts between visits. Keeping up with regular gutter cleaning pushes water away from your home, and with few or no trees, once a year in late fall is usually enough to protect your home from water damage. Guarded gutters still need the surface cleared, just less often. Wappinger gets 47.9 inches of precipitation a year, with June, August and October the wettest months, and snow falls from January through April and again in November and December, so the schedule has to fit the heavy rainfall as well as the leaves. Left alone, the water a clogged run holds can lead to structural damage in the fascia and eave. When you call to book, tell us what hangs over the house and we will suggest the schedule your lot actually needs. Set up your schedule on the phone at (866) 435-6328 or send a photo of the eave line by text so we can estimate the frequency before we come out.
Once the crew has been up the ladder, we tell you which tier fits, and that is the schedule we keep. Gutter services are only useful when they match what the trees and the weather are doing to your lot, and that is what we figure out on the first visit. The easiest way to keep your gutters working through the year is to book the schedule once and let us hold it. Freezing weather is the reason to get the surface clean before winter, because trapped water turns to ice at the eave.
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 Wappinger and surrounding areas, cleaning gutters on homes in the neighborhoods where tree cover, twig litter and roof pitch tell us the most about how often a house needs attention. Our gutter cleaning process starts with a quote by phone or text, using stories, size and tree cover, and a photo of the house front helps us estimate faster. Lead time changes with the season, and during the two busy windows of the year, spring and fall, our calendar fills first.
We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for the cleaning to happen. Every visit is scheduled around the homeowner, and the crew works from the outside of the house. Because we only do cleanings and gutter maintenance, we can put a crew on your gutters without pulling in other work, and that keeps the schedule predictable for homeowners who book a regular visit. Regular visits also turn gutter maintenance into a small line item instead of an emergency.
If you have been putting off a clean because the gutters look fine from the driveway, that is the usual sign of an overflow that is about to start. Book the visit now and get your gutters checked before the next heavy storm, and we will tell you what we find once the crew is on the ladder.
The number comes from the stories, the square footage and what is in the gutters, and we give it to you by phone or text before we come out. Once you have the number, that is what the invoice will say.
Across New York, the spring window runs late May to June, and in Wappinger the fall visit falls between October and early November. If you wait past the fall visit, the leaf mat and the first freeze tend to show up together, and on those houses we have found runs sagging under ice by March.
Same-day depends on the calendar that week. Most slots come up within the week, and we confirm the exact date when you call.
No. The crew works outside, does not come into the house, and sends photos of every run and downspout to your phone before the truck leaves. Leave the side gate unlocked, keep pets inside while the ladders are up, and move anything off the landscape beds under the eaves.
Yes, we flush every downspout until it runs clean and check that water is leaving at the outlet. If a drain line runs underground and water is not coming out the far end, we tell you, and clearing a buried line is a separate job that we quote before anyone touches it.
Yes. Guards keep out most leaves and debris, but on our jobs we still find needles, seed casings and grit sitting on top of the guard and packing the surface. We clear the surface, flush the outlets until they run clean, and reseat the guards so water gets in and the fascia does not rot.
A rain gutter that runs clean and still spills at the front edge in a downpour usually has a slope or capacity problem rather than a clog problem. Show us the spill with a photo or a short clip taken during rain, and we will say what it is; a second cleaning will not fix a slope problem.
The quote you get holds. If the crew finds something that changes the job, we tell you and you agree to it before any work starts, so the invoice matches the number you were given. Call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the house front to book a date.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
