Our own crew cleans your gutters, flushes every downspout, flow-tests the run, hauls away what comes out, and sends you photos before we leave. The price comes from your stories, your home's size and how much tree cover is over the roof. The number we give on the phone is the number on the invoice. Most of our customers across Pennsylvania book in spring and fall, and a clean gutter in spring is the easiest one to keep that way. Call (866) 435-6328 and we will price it from a photo of the front of your house.
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 give you 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 linear foot, which lands in a similar place, but we would rather give you one number for the whole house. Elizabethtown homeowners get that number whether the job is a small ranch or a tall two-story, and we clean every run so the quote covers the whole job.
On our jobs, a few things move the price. A third story or a steep roof that cannot be walked means a boom or scissor lift and more time on the ladder. A walk-out basement or sloped lot raises the effective height of the back of the house. Gutters that nobody has opened in years hold a compacted leaf mat that takes longer to clean out, and guards we have to lift and reseat add a step on every run. Downspout flushing, flow testing and debris removal are part of the quote, never billed as extras. If anything changes the job, you hear about it before work starts, never on the invoice.
Here is how a quote for your house gets built. Elizabethtown gets about 44.3 inches of precipitation a year, and its wettest months are May, Jul and Sep, so a gutter that is clean in early spring can be full again after the first heavy rainfall. Twig and seed casings are common in the spring, and a leak at the eave after a storm often traces back to one run nobody checked. Our cleaning services in Elizabethtown cover homes, small businesses and commercial properties alike, and every job follows the same gutter cleaning process. We ask about stories, trees and when the gutters were last cleaned before we commit to a number, so you know what the job costs before we arrive. If you are weighing a twig problem against gutter guards, tell us, and we will say which one your house actually needs. If you want to get your gutters on the schedule, most homes need two cleanings a year, and gutter maintenance visits are quoted the same way as the first one.
| 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 book twice a year, once in the spring after the seed and pollen drop and again in November after the last leaves are down. Across Pennsylvania, late May to June is the usual spring window, and our fall visit lands from November to early December. When we open a gutter in spring we find seeds, seed casings and pollen paste packed into the elbows. In fall it is the wet leaf mat, and Elizabethtown gets about 23.7 inches of snow a year, which falls in January through March and December, so a run left full through winter can sag or pull loose under the load. Gutter cleaning services on those two visits keep the gutter system clear before the heavy spring rain.
The tiers, as we see them on our jobs: twice a year covers most houses. Under heavy tree cover, or near a busy road or a construction site, we visit every three to four months, because needles and grit pack the downspouts between visits. Few or no trees means once a year in late fall is enough. Guards need less frequent cleaning, but the surface still has to be clean and the flow checked, and we do that on every visit. Leaves and debris left in the gutter rot the wood behind it and cause structural damage over a few seasons, which is why we do not skip the fall run.
After the first visit we tell you which tier your lot actually needs. The goal is to keep water away from your home and off the foundation and the fascia board, which is how a rain gutter does its job, and to keep clogged downspouts from backing water up under the shingles. Good drainage matters on a sloped yard too, so our gutter services check where each downspout lets go and whether the landscape sends water back toward the house, since a clean run on a regular schedule is the cheapest way to avoid that repair.
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 works across Elizabethtown and the surrounding areas, and we plan every visit around the house, not around a route. The goal on every visit is a clean run from the top of the gutter to the outlet. Call (866) 435-6328 or text us to book. Tell us your stories, your approximate square footage and whether trees hang over the house, and send a photo of the front if that is easy. We will give you a quote from those details and set a date. The usual lead time comes up when you call, and we confirm the date before we come.
Our calendar fills in the two busy windows of the year, late spring and late fall, when the seeds and leaves come down, so most jobs book for spring and fall. Many Elizabethtown homes come to us with a clog or a sag, so tell us when you call and we will plan the visit around it. We do work on residential properties and commercial properties the same way, so a homeowner here gets the same careful work as a building manager. Each visit we book starts from the same questions, and debris removal comes with the visit. If you want to clean your gutters on a set schedule, ask us about regular gutter cleaning, and we keep the records so each visit starts from what we found last time.
The number comes from stories, square footage and what is in the gutters, and we give it as an estimate by phone or text. We do not give a range here because trees and buildup change the job. Call (866) 435-6328 with the stories, the square footage and whether trees hang over the house, and we give you one number.
Late May to June is the usual spring window across Pennsylvania, and our fall visit falls in November to early December, so book that fall run before the 23.7 inches of snow a year, which falls in January through March and December, loads a full gutter.
We cannot promise same-day work on every call, so ask when you phone. Our gutter cleaning service fills in spring and fall first, so calling early gives you more choice.
You do not have to be home for exterior work. Tell us when you book if the gate or the driveway needs planning, and we will work around it.
We flush every downspout on the visit and watch the water come out clean at the bottom. A run that will not clear gets worked from the top, and a buried drain line that needs its own cleaning is quoted separately before anyone starts.
Yes, though usually less often. Guards hold back the leaves, but grit and needles still have to be cleared to keep your gutters flowing along the roofline, and a clean trough makes the next visit faster.
If a gutter still overflows in rain after a clean, the cause is usually slope or downspout size rather than a clog or a blockage. That is the fix that will protect your home from water damage, and it is not another cleaning. Tell us what the water flow looks like in rain and we will say which it is.
Only if the job itself changes. If we find something new, you hear about it and agree to it before work starts, so nothing shows up as a surprise on the invoice.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
