Our own crew cleans gutters in London. We flush every downspout, check the water flow, haul the debris away, and send 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 on the phone is the number on your invoice. Spring and fall fill the calendar first, so book early.
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 at (866) 435-6328 or by text from those three things, and the number we quote is the number we charge. Some gutter cleaning service companies price by the linear foot, which lands in a similar place once you run the numbers, but we would rather you know the whole figure before we climb anything.
On our jobs the things that move the quote are consistent. A third story or a steep pitch takes longer and more care. A walk-out basement or a sloped lot changes the drainage of the whole gutter system, so the back run sits higher than it looks from the driveway, and a run that has lost its slope can sag under its own load. Gutters left for years come out packed with compacted leaves and grit that has to be worked loose by hand, and a twig or seed mat jammed at the elbow is a blockage that has to be cleared before the flush. Gutter guards we have to lift and reseat add time on the roof, and a steep roofline does too. Downspout flushing, flow testing and debris removal are included and never billed as extras, and anything that changes the job gets raised before work starts, never on the invoice.
When water runs over the front edge in heavy rainfall, or a seam starts to leak, the clog is often at the elbow or in the front run, and that is the first place we check.
After the first visit we tell you what the lot needs, and the estimate for the next gutter maintenance visit is built the same way. Most homeowners do better with cleanings on a fixed schedule than on a call after the first overflow, so get your gutters on the calendar once and the cleaning and maintenance follow on their own. Text us a photo of the front of the house if that is easier than describing it, and we will tell you whether the number on the phone holds up.
| 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.
Our schedule runs twice a year, once in late spring, late May to June across Ohio, after the seed and pollen drop, and once in late October to November after the last leaves come down. When we open a gutter in late spring we often find seeds, seed casings and pollen paste packed in the downspout elbows. In the fall it is the wet leaf mat in a rain gutter, and when the first ice comes we see ice dams at the eave on London homes that skipped the fall visit, and by March those runs have often begun to sag or come loose.
Under heavy tree cover, with big trees over the house, the gutters need a visit more often than twice a year, because leaves and debris and needles pack the downspout elbows between visits, and clogged downspouts are the first thing to go. With few or no trees, one fall visit is usually enough to keep the runs clean. Near a busy road or a construction site the gutters take on more grit, and a yard that slopes toward the house sends more water into the trough, so the landscape around the foundation gets checked too. Left too long, a full gutter lets water rot the fascia board, which is structural damage and a carpenter's job, not a cleaning one, so every visit ends with a flush of each downspout, which keeps water away from the house.
Across London, the two busy windows come up every year, and May, June and July are the wettest months with about 42 inches of precipitation a year, while snow lands mostly in December through March, about 20 inches a year, so the fall visit is timed to beat it. After the first visit we tell you what your lot needs, and the next date goes on the calendar before we leave. Call (866) 435-6328, text a photo of the front, or book a date, and we will put regular gutter cleaning services on the calendar.
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 offers cleaning services in London, OH, and we serve the surrounding areas with the same estimate process. We price it by phone or text from the stories, the size and the tree cover, and a photo of the house front helps if it is easy to send. The gutter cleaning process starts with that call, then a photo, then the number, and the two busy windows of the year, spring and fall, are when the calendar fills first. Most people wait until water is over the edge before they book, which is the costly way to do it, so book a time to clean your gutters before the overflow starts.
We call before we come, and you do not have to be there for the visit. We clean residential properties across London, and a homeowner with commercial properties on the lot should tell us on the call what the building is, because a property that is both residential and commercial gets the same check before we give a price. Call (866) 435-6328, text a photo of the front, or book a date, and we confirm the price before we get your gutters on the schedule.
Pricing starts from the stories, the size of the house and what is in the gutters, and we give you that estimate by phone or text. We do not give a figure from the road. Once we have those three things, the number we give is the number we charge.
In London OH, the usual windows are late May to June across Ohio, after the seed and pollen drop, and again in late October to November after the last leaves come down. If the fall visit is skipped, buildup sits in the trough all winter, and by March we often find runs that have begun to sag on homes with ice on the eave. A clean trough in November is what prevents that.
Same-day slots depend on what is open that week. We confirm a date when you call, and the earlier you book the more choice you have. Our gutter services fill the spring and fall windows first.
No, you do not need to be home. The crew works outside only and does not come inside, and you get the photos on your phone whether or not you were there. To keep your gutters reachable, tell us about any locked gate or dog when you book.
Yes, we flush every downspout and check that the water is leaving at the outlet, so the drainage path is confirmed rather than guessed. Clear drainage is how we protect your home from water damage and keep water away from your home instead of letting it pool at the foundation. If water is not leaving an underground outlet, we tell you before we go, and a clog at the elbow gets worked out by hand while a buried line that needs more is priced separately.
Yes. Leaf guards hold back leaves but let needles, seed casings and grit through, and that material builds up on top of the screen and in the trough beneath it. We lift the panels, clear what is underneath, flush each downspout and reseat the guards, so water can get in at the front.
If a gutter is clean and still sheets rainwater over the edge in heavy rainfall, the problem is usually slope or downspout size, not something a cleaning can fix. Tell us and we will look at it, and we will not sell a second cleaning to fix a slope problem.
It should not. A quote is meant to be a number you can plan around. Gutters and downspouts are priced once, from the stories, size and tree cover, and gutter maintenance is settled on the call. If the crew finds a problem that changes the job, we stop and talk it through with you before any more work happens.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
