Our own crew cleans gutters for homeowners, every downspout flushed and flow-tested, leaves and debris hauled away, and photos of every run before we leave. The price comes from stories, size and tree cover, and the number we give on the phone is the number on the invoice. Call (866) 435-6328 for your price before you book. Rainwater has to leave through the downspout, so a clean gutter system matters most when the rain comes hard. We have been booked here every spring and fall, and most of our Urbana customers come back for both visits.
Quoted from stories, size and tree cover, over the phone, with nothing added once the crew is on the roof.
The price depends on stories, square footage and what is 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. Companies that sell gutter cleaning services by linear foot land in a similar place per foot of run, but the stories and the buildup do most of the work. We give no per-foot rate because it does not match what the crew finds on the roof, and a gutter that looks clean from the ground can still be full.
What moves the price on our jobs is what the crew finds when it gets there. A third story or a roof too steep to walk takes longer and more gear. A walk-out basement or sloped lot raises the effective height of the back roofline. A gutter system nobody has opened in years comes out packed with compacted leaves, and the clog has to be broken up by hand before the water can run. A leak at a seam gets photographed and reported, not repaired on the spot. Guards we have to lift and reseat add time. Downspout flushing, a water flow check and debris removal are included and never billed as extras. Anything that changes the job is raised before work starts, never on the invoice.
Picture a house with heavy leaves and clogged downspouts on a rain gutter run that has gone two seasons without a visit. Once a crew opens it, the downspout is often blocked near the elbow and the drainage pools at the foundation, which is structural damage and wood rot waiting to happen. We clear the clog, flush the downspout until it runs clean at the outlet and walk the runs to confirm the water away from your home. Before we climb, we ask every homeowner the same thing: send a photo of the front of the house and we will tell you what the job looks like before anyone commits. Most urbana homes we see have one or two of these conditions, and the photo answers most of the questions before the crew arrives.
| 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.
Across Ohio, the spring visit falls in late May to June, after the seed and pollen drop finishes, and the fall visit in late October or November, after the last leaves are down. Most of our customers in urbana oh book those two cleanings a year, and a regular gutter cleaning service on that schedule keeps the buildup from getting ahead of the rain. When we open a gutter here in May we find seed casings and pollen paste packed into the downspout elbows, and a clean run is the exception. In November it is the wet leaf mat, and on houses that skipped the fall visit we see runs that have sagged or pulled loose by March under ice.
Under heavy tree cover, we see the gutter clog build fastest, since the needles and seed drops from the landscape around the house go straight into the troughs. Needles and grit pack the outlets between visits, so those homes are on every three to four months. Few or no trees around the roofline means a single clean in late fall is enough. Gutter guards, where a house has them, mean you clean less often, but the surface still has to be cleared because the wet mat sits on top and rain runs over it. When rainwater cannot get in, it sheets off the front edge, and a leak at a joint usually shows up as a stain on the siding first.
Heavy rainfall is the real test. Rain in urbana oh adds up to about 44 inches a year, and May, June and July are the wettest months, so the gutters carry the most water right after the spring cleaning. If you want to clean your gutters between visits, clear the leaves and debris off the top of the runs and look for a blockage at each downspout. After the first visit we tell you which tier your lot actually needs, and the estimate for the next visit comes with that answer. A gutter maintenance schedule built on those two visits is what keeps the rain moving. The two-visit schedule suits residential and commercial roofs alike.
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 Urbana and the surrounding areas, working from the nearest base. The same crew handles gutters and downspouts on every urbana gutter cleaning job. Booking starts with a quote by phone or text from stories, size and tree cover, and a photo of the house front if that is easy to send. Call (866) 435-6328 and we will set the date. We call before we come to clean, and nobody needs to be home for the work. The two busy windows of the year are spring and fall, when our calendar fills, so book early if you want a particular week.
We use the same flush every downspout routine on every job, and the photos of every run go to your phone before we leave, taken once each run is clean. A twig or a clump of needles caught in a downspout gets flushed out, and any leak at a joint shows up in the photos before it turns into a stain. That is what most people mean when they ask us to protect your home from water damage. If you want to keep your gutters working through heavy seasons, the spring and fall visits are the reliable way to do it.
Most of the jobs we book are residential properties, single-family houses with gutters on every side. If your question covers both residential and commercial work, tell us when you book, and we will say whether the crew can take commercial properties. If your house has gutter guards, say so when you book, since they change the job. Our gutter services are priced the same way, from stories and size, so the number on the phone holds. If you want to get your gutters done before a storm, a quick call is enough to hold a date.
Our gutter services are priced from stories and size, and the number comes by phone or text for any urbana oh house. Tell us the stories, the approximate square footage and whether trees hang over the roof, and we price the job on the call.
Across Ohio, late spring and late fall are the usual windows, and those two visits make up the cleaning and maintenance most gutters need. If the gutters wait past the fall visit, we find the wet leaf mat frozen onto the runs by winter, and that is when runs start to sag and the fascia can rot.
Our cleaning services in urbana run on a booking calendar that covers jobs across urbana, and most slots come up within the week. We confirm the date when you call and tell you the earliest opening we have when you book.
No. The gutter cleaning process runs outside, the crew does not come inside, and photos of every run and downspout reach your phone before the truck leaves. Leave the side gate unlocked and keep pets inside while the ladders are up.
Yes, every downspout is flushed until it runs clean and flow-tested, and we check the outlet to confirm water is leaving. Clearing an underground drain line is a separate job, and we price it before anyone touches it.
Yes. Under guards on our jobs we find needles, seed casings and grit packed on top of the screen, and the water runs off the front edge. The guard job is shorter, but we still lift the panels, clean underneath and check the flow.
A clean gutter system that still sheets water over the edge has a slope or capacity problem, not a debris problem. Send us a photo or short video in the rain and we tell you what it is. We do not sell a second cleaning for a slope problem.
Only if the crew finds something that changes the job, and you hear about it and agree before work starts. The number 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.
