Our crew cleans gutters here, every downspout flushed and flow-tested, the leaves and grit hauled away, and photos of every run before we leave. The price comes from stories, size and tree cover, and the number we give you on the phone is the number on the invoice. Most of our customers book in spring and fall, and we keep those slots filled first, so tell us your address 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 stories, square footage and what is sitting in the gutters. We work out the number over the phone or by text from those three things, and the number we give is the number we charge. Some companies price by the linear foot, which lands in a similar place per run, but we price the whole house so you know the total before we arrive. Our gutter cleaning service is priced per house, so the drainage check and the leaves and debris haul-off are already inside the number. A clean house with open gutters is the simplest estimate we give.
On our jobs, a few things move the number. A third story or a roof too steep to walk takes more time on the ladder. A walk-out basement or a sloped lot raises the effective height of the roofline. Gutters nobody has opened in years come out packed with compacted leaf mat that takes longer to clear. Guards we have to lift and reseat add time too. Heavy buildup usually means the clogged downspouts underneath need flushing too, and that time is already in the number. A clog at one outlet can back a whole run up, so we check each one. A clean run is only half the job if the downspout still backs up. If the fascia shows structural damage, we photograph it and tell you before anything else happens. Downspout flushing, water flow testing and debris removal are included and are never billed as extras. If anything changes the job, you hear about it before work starts, never on the invoice.
On a recent job, the gutters on a two-story house sat under a heavy canopy and had not been opened in several seasons. The crew found the troughs full of wet leaves and seed casings, with water running behind the fascia at two low points. We cleared every run, flushed each downspout until it ran clear at the bottom, and photographed the sag before we left. The number we gave over the phone was the number on the invoice. Happy Valley homes with trees overhead tend to need more frequent visits than open lots, and we would rather tell you that up front than surprise you on the ladder.
A homeowner with a sagging run hears the cause named before any money is discussed. The whole gutter system gets the same check, from the roofline down to the outlet. Commercial properties with flat roofs and long runs of gutter are priced the same way, by stories, size and tree cover. The landscape around the house sets how fast the trough fills, and we price that in. If a sag needs a rain gutter repair, we quote it separately. Every part of the job is aimed at getting water away from your home.
| 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 jobs in Happy Valley or the hills around it, most customers 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. When we open a gutter here in late spring we find seeds, seed casings and pollen paste packed into the downspout elbows. In fall it is the wet leaf mat, and where a house skipped the fall visit we have seen runs sag or pull loose by midwinter under the weight of ice. That gap between visits is where most of the damage starts. Our service runs on the same two visits, so the calendar stays simple, and a small leak at a joint or a blockage at the outlet is usually the first sign the run is full.
Under heavy tree cover, every three to four months is the right rhythm, because needles, grit and the odd twig pack the downspouts between visits. Lots with few or no trees can usually get by on fewer cleanings, one a year in late fall. Houses with gutter guards still need a visit, less often, with the surface cleared and the guard reseated. After the first visit we tell you which tier your lot actually needs, based on what we found in the gutters rather than a general rule.
Heavy rainfall is the test a clean gutter has to pass, and the wettest months here are January, November and December. A clog in the trough during a storm is what spills water down the fascia, and rainwater off a full roof has nowhere to go but over the edge. Regular gutter cleaning on a set calendar keeps that from happening. Houses here or nearby with heavy tree cover tighten the calendar, and slots fill first in late spring. Plan to clean your gutters before the wet season hits and again once the leaves are down. Residential and commercial properties follow the same calendar, and residential properties on heavy tree lots usually need the shorter interval. Haul-off happens at every visit, so nothing sits in the trough through the wet months. Finishing with a clean gutter is the goal at every visit, and keeping the trough clean between visits is what stretches the interval.
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.
The crew works out of a base within driving distance and covers the surrounding areas across Happy Valley on the same schedule. Booking is simple: call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the front of the house, and we give you a number from stories, size and tree cover. Lead time changes with the season, and when we call to confirm we give you the date we can actually hold. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for the visit. Happy Valley homeowners book the same way, and the number for your house comes from those same three things. Happy Valley gutter cleaning runs the same on every street, so the price for your house is worked out the same way too.
Our calendar fills in two busy windows, late spring and late fall, when the seeds drop and the leaves come down. If you want a slot in those windows, book early. Outside those windows there is usually room, and a single visit is often enough to get your gutters running clean again.
Gutters and downspouts get checked together, so a sound run that drains into a blocked downspout still gets flagged. Keep your gutters running and you protect your home from water damage, which costs far less than replacing a fascia board that has started to rot. Our gutter services are booked per house, so the whole roofline is in scope from the first call. For most homes here, gutter maintenance is two visits a year plus a check after the big storms, and atmospheric rivers across Oregon are the storms that test a run.
The number comes from the stories and the square footage of the house, plus what is in the gutters. Call (866) 435-6328 or text us a photo of the front, and we will give you a number on the phone that is the same number on the invoice. The gutter cleaning process starts with that number and ends with photos on your phone.
Most of our customers here book in late spring and again in late fall. If you wait past the fall leaves, the leaves and debris have packed into a wet mat, and that is what we find. On houses that skipped the fall visit, runs have sagged under ice by midwinter. We can tell you the right timing for your roof after the first visit.
Same-day depends on the calendar that week. Most slots come up within the week, and we confirm a date when you call so you know exactly when the crew will be there.
No. Our crew works outside, does not come inside, and sends photos of every run and downspout to your phone before the truck leaves. Leave the side gate unlocked and keep pets inside while the ladders are up. Cleaning and maintenance visits run the same way, with the same photo record.
Yes, we flush every downspout and watch it run clear at the bottom. Where a downspout feeds an underground line, we check that water is leaving at the outlet and tell you if it is not. Clearing a buried line is a separate job and is quoted before anyone touches it.
Yes, usually less often. On our jobs under guards we find needles, seed casings and grit sitting on top of the guard and packed underneath. We clear the surface, flush the outlets and reseat the guard, then photograph the result.
If a clean gutter still spills over the front edge in rain, the problem is usually slope or downspout size, not debris. Send us a short video in the rain and we will tell you what it is. We do not sell a second cleaning for a slope problem.
It should not. If the crew finds something that changes the job, you hear it and agree to it before work starts. The price given on the phone is the price on the invoice.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
