Our own crew cleans gutters in Chapel Hill, 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. On our Chapel Hill jobs most customers book in late April to May and again in November to early December.
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. Every homeowner wants to clean their gutters once the leaves come down, but the number is set by the house, not the calendar. We build the estimate over the phone or by text from those three things, and the number we quote is the number we charge. Call (866) 435-6328 and we will walk you through them. Some companies price by the linear foot, which lands in a similar place per run, but on our jobs the stories and the access matter more than the footage alone.
What moves the quote is what the crew finds on the ladder. A third story or a roof too steep to walk takes more time and more equipment. A walk-out basement puts the back run far up from the ground, so the lift has to go higher. Gutters nobody has opened in years come down packed with compacted debris, and that is slower work than a clean run. Guards we have to lift and reseat add time on both ends of the visit. Downspout flushing, flow testing and debris removal are included and are never billed as extras. Anything that changes the job is raised with you before work starts, never on the invoice.
On a Chapel Hill house with a heavy clog at the elbow, the water flow check is often where the real work shows up. Before we clean a downspout, we check for a second clog further down the run, since a run that looks clear from the ground can still hold a blockage at the outlet. We check gutters and downspouts together, because a clear trough still overflows if the outlet below it is blocked. The sag we see on older runs usually comes from years of buildup that pulled the hangers down. We flush every downspout and watch the water at the bottom until it runs clear, and if it will not clear we tell you what is blocking it before we charge for anything beyond the cleaning.
Gutter cleaning services for residential and commercial buildings follow the same logic: the job is what the building needs, and we say so before we start. If you want to clean your gutters on a set schedule, we can set that up after the first visit. Most of our chapel hill homes come in with a seasonal load from spring and fall, and once we have looked at the gutter we can tell whether regular gutter cleaning is the right schedule or whether the drainage needs a closer look.
Our experience with residential properties on the Chapel Hill side shows the same pattern. The three things that set the quote are stories, size and tree cover, and a photo of the front of the house sent by text is usually enough for us to confirm them. We do not quote a figure we have not seen the roofline for, and we do not add a charge after the fact.
| 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.
Most of our chapel hill homeowners book twice a year, in late April to May after the seed and pollen drop, and again in November to early December after the last leaves are down. The spring visit leaves every elbow clean of seed casings and pollen paste, and the fall visit clears the wet leaf mat that rain would otherwise hold against the fascia all winter. Booking both helps protect your home from water damage through the months that run wettest here, March, July and September.
When we open a gutter here in May we often find the downspout elbows full of seed and pollen, and the run above it is clogged enough that water spills over the front edge instead of draining. A clogged downspout is the first thing we check, because a blocked elbow makes the run back up. In November it is the leaf load, and on houses that skipped the fall visit we have seen runs that sagged or pulled loose by March, which is structural damage that starts as one sagging hanger. Leaves and debris left in a trough through a wet winter hold water against the fascia, and that is how fascia rot starts. A rain gutter full of wet leaves cannot carry rainwater, so the water finds the seam, the corner or the top of the fascia.
Twice a year is the baseline for gutter maintenance on most houses. Under heavy tree cover, or near a busy road or construction where grit collects, our crews are on every three to four months, because needles and grit pack the elbows between visits. Houses in surrounding areas with heavy landscape planting need the same care, since a single twig in an elbow can start the blockage that backs up the whole run. Few or no trees, once a year in late fall is enough. Gutter guards need less frequent visits, but the surface still gets cleared when we come. Ask us which schedule will keep your gutters running clean.
After the first clean visit, we tell you which tier your lot actually needs, and the gutter system is priced to match.
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 cleans gutters across chapel hill nc and the surrounding areas, and covers it from the nearest base, so most addresses in the town are on a regular route. Our gutter services run on the same route for every address. Booking starts with a quote by phone or text: call (866) 435-6328 or text us the number of stories, the rough size of the house and whether trees are over the roof, and send a photo of the house front if that is easy. We book the visit from there and call before we come. Nobody needs to be home for the cleaning itself, and most chapel hill homeowners ask us about gutter maintenance on the same call.
Our cleaning services in chapel hill fill in the two busy windows, late April to May and November to early December, so if you want a spring or fall slot, call early in those months. Outside those windows lead times are shorter. If you want to get your gutters on the route before the fall window, call now. Once you are on the schedule, we keep the visit moving with a call before we arrive, and the crew sends photos of every run to your phone when the job is finished. Chapel Hill gutter cleaning is a routine job for us, and the gutter cleaning process is the same whether the house is on a quiet street or a busy one. Each downspout is flushed so the water runs away from your home at the bottom, not back toward the foundation.
If the gutters have been left a long time, the first visit is the one that sets the schedule. Heavy rainfall on a full trough is usually what shows us where a leak starts, and once we know that we can tell you whether the house needs cleaning and maintenance on a regular cycle or a one-time catch-up. Most houses that stay on the route after the first visit need two cleanings a year, and a clean trough at the first visit makes the rest of the cycle shorter.
Book in spring and fall: late April to May, and November to early December. Skipping the fall visit means leaves and debris sit in the trough through the freeze months, and that can pull runs loose by March.
Most slots come up within the week, and we confirm the date when you call. We do not promise a same-day visit we cannot keep.
No. Our crew works outside and does not come inside. Leave the side gate unlocked and keep pets in while the ladders are up.
Yes, gutters and outlets are flushed together, and every downspout is watched until it runs clear. Clogged downspouts get worked from the top where they can be reached. Checking where an underground line drains is included as a visual check, and clearing a buried line is quoted separately before anyone starts.
Yes. Under guards on our jobs we find needles, seed casings, grit and the odd twig sitting on top of the guard, and the water runs off the front edge once that mat is wet. The guard is part of the gutter system, so we clear the surface and check that water is getting in. Yards with heavy landscape planting drop more of this onto the guard.
A rain gutter that is clean and still sheets water over the edge in rain has a slope or downspout-size problem, not a debris problem. Send us a photo or a short video in the rain and we tell you what it is. We do not sell a second cleaning for a slope problem, and clearing the run keeps water away from the foundation.
Not without you hearing about it first. If the crew finds something that changes the job, we raise it before work starts and you agree to it, and the invoice matches the quote. Debris removal is part of the quote. If the crew spots structural damage, such as a run pulled off the fascia, that is a repair question, and we say so. The same rule applies to commercial properties.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
