Archdale gutter cleaning by our own crew: we flush every downspout, test the flow, haul the debris and send 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 on the phone is the number on the invoice. Most of our customers book in the spring and fall, and we have been doing this work on local homes for years.
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 quote it 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 that lands in a similar place per foot of run, but our service is quoted from the house, and the stories and access decide most of it.
On our jobs, a third story or a pitch too steep to walk takes more time on the ladder and more care on the lift. A walk-out basement or a sloped lot raises the effective height of the roofline, so the back run sits farther up than the front. Gutters nobody has opened in years come out packed with leaves and debris, and it takes longer to clear them than a run that was cleaned last season. Every rain gutter with guards that we have to lift and reseat adds time too. Cleaning gutters, checking water flow and debris removal are included in the quote and never billed as extras. If anything we find changes the job, you hear about it before work starts, not on the invoice.
Archdale homes run from older houses with long gutter runs to newer ones with a single downspout per side. In one home we cleared a run that had been left for several seasons, and a clog at the elbows was why the water was spilling over the front edge. We cleared the clog, flushed the line until the water ran clear at the bottom and photographed the result, and that was the whole job. A clean gutter is only half the job, because what matters is the water away from your home, so we check the drainage where each downspout discharges as part of the visit.
We clean residential and commercial buildings alike, and residential properties get the same photo report as any other job. Gutters on commercial properties are priced per building, and the same questions about stories, access and buildup apply. If you have a question about a specific house, text a photo of the front and the roofline and we will tell you what we see.
| One story | Two stories | Three stories or steep | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1,500 sq ft | from $150 | from $195 | from $255 |
| 1,500 to 2,500 sq ft | from $170 | from $225 | from $295 |
| Over 2,500 sq ft | from $200 | from $265 | from $345 |
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.
On our Archdale NC jobs most customers book twice a year, in late spring after the seed and pollen drop, and again in late fall after the last leaves come down. That is the simplest way to decide when to clean your gutters. When we open a gutter here in May we find seed casings and pollen paste packed into the elbows, even when it looks clean from the ground, and when we open one in November we find a wet leaf mat that holds water against the fascia. On houses that skipped the fall visit, a blockage that was already slowing the runs often means sag or loose hangers by the next season, and water sitting against the fascia is how structural damage starts.
Regular cleaning under heavy tree cover means every three to four months, because needles and grit block the rainwater from reaching the outlets between visits. Here we get about 48.3 inches of rain a year, and heavy rainfall peaks in July, August and September, so the late-fall visit has to clear what the summer storms carried in. With few or no trees overhead, once a year in late fall is usually enough. Gutters with guards still need the surface kept clean, and that visit is a little less frequent than an open system.
One of our customers has no trees overhead and books once a year, and the clog we clear each fall is a fraction of what we pulled from a neighboring lot under a canopy. A second customer with heavy tree cover is on the three-to-four-month schedule, and the spring visit there is almost all seed and grit, with the runs left clean by the time we pack up. Both are on our job records with the details of what we found.
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 works across Archdale and the surrounding areas, dispatched from the nearest base. Homeowners start with a quote by phone or text from your stories, your home's size and whether trees hang over the house, and every homeowner gets that same estimate on the invoice. A photo of the house front, with any twig or needle buildup visible in the runs and the gutter guards if you have them, helps us size the job, and it is easy to send from your phone. Most calendars fill up in the two busy windows of the year, the spring and the fall, so the earlier you call, the more likely you are to get the date you want.
We call before we come and nobody needs to be home. The crew works from the outside, and when the job is done and the gutters are clean, the photos of every run and downspout are on your phone. If you want to get your gutters cleared before the next storm season, call (866) 435-6328 and we will set a date that works for your street and your schedule.
We keep the calendar honest. When a date is open we say so, and when it is not we tell you the next one. Our gutter services run on the calendar you see, and each of our cleanings is maintenance on a schedule, not an emergency call. If we spot a small leak at a seam, we photograph it and say so. Our goal is simple: to keep your gutters clean and flowing and protect your home from water damage through every rainy season.
The number comes from the stories, the square footage and what is in the gutters, so we quote it by phone or text rather than from a chart. Call (866) 435-6328 and tell us the house, and we will give you the same number we charge.
Our customers here book in late spring and again in late fall, because those are the visits that catch the seed and the leaf load. If the fall visit is skipped, the wet leaf mat on the runs can sag and pull loose before the next late-spring visit.
Our cleaning services in Archdale run on a booked calendar. Most slots come up within the week, and we tell you the earliest opening when you call.
No. Our crew works outside, does not come inside, and sends photos of every run and downspout to your phone. Leave the side gate unlocked and keep pets inside while the ladders are up. Our crew leaves the yard as clean as it was found.
Yes. In our gutter cleaning process we flush every downspout, test the flow and check where the water leaves the house. Clearing a buried drain line is a separate job, and we quote it before anyone touches it.
Yes. Guards stop leaves, but needles, seed casings and grit still build up on top of them, so a gutter system with guards still needs gutter maintenance. On our jobs we lift the panels, clean underneath and check that water is getting in.
If a clean gutter still spills over the edge in rain, the problem is usually slope or downspout size rather than debris. Send us a short video in the rain and we will tell you what it is. Water spilling over the front edge can also wash out the landscape beds below, and a fascia board that has started to rot is something we point out before we leave.
It should not. If we find something that changes the job, you hear it and agree to it before the crew starts, never after.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
