Our own crew cleans gutters across Fayetteville, flushes each drain, tests the flow, hauls the waste away and sends photos of every run once they are clean and before we leave. The price comes from your stories, your square footage and how much tree cover hangs over the house, and the number we give you on the phone is the number on the invoice. Most of our customers across North Carolina book in spring and fall, and we can tell you which of those visits your house needs.
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, how large it is 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. Some companies price cleaning and maintenance by the linear foot, and that lands in a similar place once you do the math, but a number per foot is not something a homeowner can check against their own house.
On our jobs the things that move the quote are consistent. A third story or a roof too steep to walk safely takes more time and more equipment. A walk-out basement or a sloped lot raises the effective height of the eave, so the back run is further up than it looks from the yard. Gutters that nobody has opened in years come down heavy with packed leaves, grit and twigs. Gutter guards we have to lift and reseat add time up top. Drain flushing, flow testing, debris removal and haul-off are included and are never billed as extras. If anything we find changes the job, you hear about it before work starts, not on the invoice.
Here is how the gutter cleaning process goes on a typical job. A two-story Fayetteville home with heavy tree cover tends to have gutters full of packed seed casings and wet leaves. The outlets had a clog at the elbow, and two of them were discharging against the foundation. We cleared every run, flushed each drain until the water came out clean at the bottom, and photographed the foundation where the water had been pooling. Nothing about the job was surprising once we were on the ladder, because we had asked about the trees and the stories on the phone. That is how we want every quote to go: the questions up front, the number held.
If you want to get your gutters priced for your house, call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the front of the house, and we will give you a quote built from what we can 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.
Most of our customers across Fayetteville book twice a year, once in late spring after the seed and pollen drop, and once in late fall after the last leaves come down. In May, the gutter elbows are often packed with seeds and pollen paste. In November it is the wet leaf mat and the leaves and debris that rot where they sit. Houses that skipped the fall visit are the ones where we find runs that sag and hangers pulled loose when we come back. Start with a clean system in May and it is easier to keep that way through summer.
Under heavy tree cover, we see customers on a schedule of cleanings every three to four months, because the buildup of needles and grit fills the clogged downspouts between visits, and the gutter system clogs faster than a twice-a-year visit can keep up with. Rainwater that cannot get out pools in the trough and can lead to structural damage. Houses with a bare landscape and few or no trees nearby are usually fine with one visit a year in late fall, and a clean gutter going into winter is the goal. Gutters with guards still need the surface cleared, and that is usually a slightly less frequent job, but it is still a job.
A customer near the edge of a wooded lot called us after heavy rainfall because water was going over the front edge of the rain gutter instead of draining out the bottom. We cleared the runs and flushed the drains, and the gutters now carry water away from your home. The customer on the other side of town, with no trees and a flat profile, books once a year and has never had a problem. Both of them were on the right schedule for their own lots.
After the first visit we tell you which tier your lot actually needs, and we will not push you into a schedule your house does not require. The point of gutter maintenance is to keep your gutters working between visits.
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 covers Fayetteville NC from the nearest base, and we work Fayetteville homes on a regular rotation so the schedule stays predictable. Booking is simple: you call (866) 435-6328 or text, we ask about the stories, the approximate size and whether trees hang over the house, and if it is easy, a photo of the front of the house helps us confirm the rest. We give you a quote on the spot, and once you agree, we set a date. Every visit covers the gutters, the downspouts and debris removal. Lead times are listed on the booking page, and that is what we will hold ourselves to.
The calendar fills in two busy windows, late spring and late fall, because those are the months when most Fayetteville homeowners look up at their gutters and see the trouble. If you can book outside those windows, you usually get an earlier slot. If you want us to clean your gutters before the next heavy rain, ask for the first open date and we will confirm it when you call. Each gutter cleaning service gets its own slot, and surrounding areas run on the same rotation. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for the work to get done.
Our work is residential and commercial, and we keep both on the same schedule. We handle residential properties and commercial properties in one rotation, so a neighborhood visit and a commercial building visit can be planned together when that makes sense. Homeowners who want regular gutter cleaning services in Fayetteville and a single point of contact get that from the same crew that handles the commercial sites. Our gutter services are quoted the same way on both kinds of property.
The estimate comes from the stories, the size of the house and what is in the gutters, and we give it to you by phone or text. We do not quote a range on the web because the number depends on your house. Once we have those three things, the quote is the price you pay.
Most of our customers here book in late spring, after the seed and pollen drop, and again in late fall, after the leaves come down. If you wait past the fall visit, the wet leaf mat, any ice that forms and any blockage at the outlets can pull runs loose by the next spring. The right month depends on your trees, and we can tell you which one fits your house.
Same-day depends on the calendar that week. Most slots come up within the week, and we confirm the date when you call. If you need the earliest opening, tell us when you call and we will check what is open.
No. Our crew works outside, does not come inside, and sends photos of every run and outlet to your phone before the truck leaves. Leave the side gate unlocked and keep pets inside while the ladders are up, and that is the whole list. Once the crew is done, the gutters are clean.
Yes, we flush every downspout and check the water flow until it comes out clean at the bottom. If a drain empties into an underground line, we check the outlet and tell you whether water is leaving. Clearing a buried line is a separate job and we quote it before anyone touches it.
Yes. On our jobs, guards keep leaves out of the trough but let needles, seed casings and grit settle on top, and that mat holds water until it spills over the front edge. We lift the panels, clear the surface and flush the drains, and we reseat the guards once the trough is clean.
If the gutters are clean and still spill over in the rain, the problem is usually slope, capacity, drainage or outlet size, not what is sitting in the trough. A leak at a seam, or a sagging run where the gutter meets the roofline, is more likely to be the cause. Send us a photo or a short video taken during the rain and we will tell you what it is. Catching it early is how you protect your home from water damage. We will not sell you a second cleaning for a slope problem.
It should not. If we find something that changes the job, we stop, tell you what it is and agree on the change before we continue. The number we quoted on the phone is the number on the invoice.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
