Our own crew cleans gutters in Sharon PA, every downspout flushed and flow-tested, the material hauled away, and photos of every run before we leave. The price comes from your stories, roof size and tree cover, and the number we give you on the phone is the number on the invoice. Across Pennsylvania most of our customers book a cleaning in the spring and again in the fall, and we keep that rhythm on every job we take. Call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the front of your house and we will tell you what it 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, its square footage 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. A clean quote for a homeowner starts with those three facts. Some companies price by the linear foot, which lands in a similar place once the length is measured, but a per-foot figure hides what the crew actually finds during cleaning and maintenance.
What moves the quote on our jobs is usually a third story or a roof too steep to walk, a walk-out basement that puts the back run well above grade, gutters nobody has opened in years, packed with compacted leaves, grit and the odd twig, sometimes with a leak already forming at a seam, and guards we have to lift and reseat. Downspout flushing, flow testing and debris removal are included and are never billed as extras, and everything pulled out is hauled away from your home. If anything changes the job, you hear it and agree to it before work starts, never on the invoice.
On Sharon homes, the heaviest quotes come from long runs of gutter along a steep roofline under overhanging trees, where the leaf and seed load builds up faster than on an open lot. When we open a gutter like that, the buildup is often thick enough that the flush has to be repeated from the top. On a clean run the flush goes quickly, and on a packed one the number reflects the extra time. We bring that up on the phone before you agree to anything. Most Sharon homeowners who call get an answer in a few minutes, and a text photo of the front of the house is enough for us to give an honest range from our side of the ladder. Ask for the quote, then ask us what drives it, and get your gutters on the calendar once the number sits right with you.
| 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 Sharon customers book twice a year, in spring and fall. The spring visit comes after seed and pollen drop, and the fall visit after the last leaves come down. Across Pennsylvania the spring visit lands late May to June and the fall visit late October to November, and the same rhythm holds for most houses we work on. In spring the downspout elbows are packed with seeds, seed casings and pollen paste. In fall it is the leaves and debris off the big trees, and where the winters freeze, a clog at the elbow can hold water that turns into ice dams at the eave. On houses that skipped the fall visit, runs have sagged or pulled loose by March, rainwater has been spilling behind them, and that can lead to rot and structural damage.
Under heavy tree cover, every three to four months is the schedule we see work, because needles and grit pack the clogged downspouts between visits. Regular gutter cleaning on a set calendar beats waiting for a sag. Near a busy road or a construction site the dust settles into the gutter faster, so the same interval applies. On a lot with few or no trees and a simple landscape, once a year in late fall is enough. Gutter guards change the picture for the whole gutter system: they cut how often the trough fills, but the surface still needs clearing, and gutter maintenance on guarded gutters stays on the same calendar with less material to remove. The same interval works for commercial properties with heavy tree cover.
When we open a rain gutter in May we want the downspouts clean and the runs in line with the fascia. When we open one in November we want the wet mat out before it freezes into the elbows. Either way, after the first visit we tell you which tier your lot actually needs, and the schedule follows from what we found rather than from a general rule. If you want to clean your gutters on the same calendar every year, ask us to set it up on that first visit.
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 has worked across Sharon and surrounding areas, cleaning from the nearest base to keep travel short. Call (866) 435-6328 to book, or start with an estimate by phone or text, which takes stories, square footage and tree cover into account, plus a photo of the house front if that is easy to send. Once we have those, we confirm a date on the calendar and call before we arrive. Nobody needs to be home to clean your gutters, because the crew works outside and does not come inside.
Our calendar fills in two busy windows, late spring and late fall, when most customers book their gutter cleaning services and the seasonal cleanings that go with them. If you call outside those windows you will usually find an earlier opening. Crews book residential and commercial work on separate days, so a request for one never bumps the other, and commercial properties get their own slots. Ask for a date when you call and we will tell you where it sits.
We keep the gutter cleaning process simple: the quote, the date, a call before arrival, the work, then the photos on your phone. That way you know what is coming and when, and the number we quoted on the phone holds from start to finish, with a clean handoff from one step to the next.
The number comes from stories and size, and we give it to you by phone or text. We do not quote a figure without knowing those two things. Once we have them, the quote you hear is the invoice you get.
Most of our customers here book in late May or June, after the spring seed drop, and again in late October or November, after the leaves are down. If you wait past the fall visit, we see sagged runs by March on houses where the first freeze came early.
Most openings come up within the week, and we confirm the date when you call. We do not promise same-day service because the calendar depends on the crew's route that week and how many gutter runs are already booked.
No. Our crew works outside on residential properties, does not come inside, and sends photos of every run and downspout to your phone before the truck leaves. Leave the side gate unlocked, keep pets in while the ladders are up, and the crew leaves the yard as clean as it found it.
Yes, we clear the gutters and downspouts, flush every downspout and flow-test it at the outlet until the water runs clean. If drainage stops at an underground line, we tell you, and any blockage down there is a separate job, quoted before anyone starts.
Yes. On our jobs the guards keep out the leaves and the odd twig, but not the needles, seed casings and grit, which mat on top and run off the front edge when wet. We lift the panels, clear underneath and reseat them so the water flow gets into the trough and drains water away from the house. That is how we keep your gutters working with guards on.
If a clean gutter still spills in heavy rainfall, the problem is usually slope or downspout size, not a clog. Send us a photo or short video in the rain and we will tell you what it is. We do not sell a second cleaning for a slope problem. Clearing gutters helps protect your home from water damage, but a slope problem needs a different fix.
It should not. If the crew finds something that changes the job, we stop, tell you what it is and agree on the change before work continues. The price on the phone and the price on the invoice match for every one of our gutter services.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
