Our own crew cleans your gutters, every downspout flushed and flow-tested, the leaves and gunk hauled away, and 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 house, and the number we give you on the phone is the number on the invoice. Most of our customers book in the spring and fall, and we have been doing this work in the area long enough to know what each visit turns up.
Quoted from stories, size and tree cover, over the phone, with nothing added once the crew is on the roof.
Our gutter cleaning services are priced from three things: stories, square footage and what is sitting in the gutters. We give an estimate over the phone or by text, and the number we quote is the number we charge. Some companies price by the linear foot, which lands in a similar place once the length is counted, but we would rather you know the full figure before the crew pulls up. Lincoln homes vary a lot in height and pitch, so the stories count is the first thing we ask about.
What moves the quote on our jobs is usually the same handful of things. A third story or a pitch too steep to walk takes longer and more care. A clean single-story run is the quick end of the range. A walk-out basement puts the back run far up the wall. Gutters nobody has opened in years are packed with leaf mat, and a clog that has set for a season takes more time to clean out than a fresh one. Guards we have to lift and reseat add a step to every run. A bent bracket or a run that has pulled away from the house is structural damage, and we point it out rather than fold it into the cleaning price. Downspout flushing, flow testing and debris removal are included and never billed as extras. A homeowner with a steep pitch and a full run should expect the quote to reflect that, and it will. If something changes the job once we are on site, you hear about it before any work starts, never on the invoice.
On a typical job, the thing we find most often is a gutter system where one run has settled. A sag like that holds leaves, and the buildup behind it sends water over the edge instead of into the downspout. We clear the run, flush the downspout and check the water flow, then tell you whether the sag is worth addressing once the run is clean. Cleaning does not fix a slope problem, and nothing done to the ground around the house changes that. Our crew works the same way on residential properties and on residential and commercial jobs alike, and the scope of each job, including commercial properties, is set by what the gutters actually hold, not by the type of building. Regular gutter cleaning is most of what gutter maintenance means here, because it keeps the drainage working and the clog from forming in the first place.
| One story | Two stories | Three stories or steep | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1,500 sq ft | from $150 | from $225 | from $295 |
| 1,500 to 2,500 sq ft | from $200 | from $260 | from $335 |
| Over 2,500 sq ft | from $235 | from $305 | from $395 |
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 customers book two visits a year to clean your gutters and keep them clean through the storm months. Across Rhode Island the spring visit usually lands in late May to June, after the seed and pollen drop has finished, and the fall visit falls in late October to November, after the last leaves are down. A gutter that looks clean from the ground can still hold a packed elbow at the downspout. When we open one in late spring, the seed casings and pollen paste are packed to the elbow of the downspout, and that is the clog that backs rainwater up along the eave. In the fall the leaves and debris form a wet, dense mat, and houses that skipped that visit are the ones where we find runs sagging by late winter. Lincoln averages about 41.5 inches of snow a year, and freezing is a real risk here, so a run still full in December is where ice starts on the eaves.
The cleaning and maintenance schedule follows the trees and the landscape around the house. Under heavy tree cover, needles, grit and the odd twig build up and leave clogged downspouts between visits, and those customers are on every three to four months, which means more cleanings in a year than a lot with few or no trees. A lot with few or no trees is fine once a year in late fall. Gutter guards reduce how often the gutter fills, but guard owners still need the surface clean, so they book less often without skipping the visit entirely. A rain gutter left full all winter is how a leak starts at a joint along the roofline, and wet muck in the trough can rot the wood behind it over a few seasons.
One customer has no trees over the roof and books once a year, and the last visit found a single run with a fine silt blockage at the far corner, cleared in the same visit and left clean. Another customer under a canopy books every three to four months, and the downspouts there need a flush at each visit. After the first visit we tell you which tier your lot actually needs. Lincoln RI gets about 51.9 inches of precipitation a year, and the wettest months are March, October and December, so heavy rainfall is when a clog that has been building shows itself. Keep your gutters and downspouts working through the year and protect your home from water damage with a schedule that fits the lot.
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.
Every homeowner gets the same crew, and we cover Lincoln RI and the surrounding areas, booking jobs across lincoln from the nearest base. Booking Lincoln gutter cleaning is simple: call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the eaves, and we quote from the number of stories, the size of the house and the tree cover. A photo of the front of the house helps us see the job before the crew is out. We confirm a date once the slot is set. Our calendar fills in the two busy windows of the year, late spring and late fall, so booking early keeps the date you want.
The gutter cleaning process is short: a quote, a date, a visit and photos. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home. The crew does a clean job from the outside and will flush every downspout and check the outlet. You get photos of every run once the job is done. The point of the whole visit is a clean gutter and water away from your home, not over the edge. If you want to get your gutters on the schedule before the next storm, tell us when you call, and we will say what the first available slot looks like. The booking steps are the same for all of our cleaning services in lincoln and our other gutter services, whether the building is a commercial property or a home, and we keep the schedule for the year so the next visit is already on the calendar.
The number comes from the stories and the size of the house, and we give it by phone or text before any crew is booked. We do not give a range here because the price depends on what is in the gutters too.
Most of our customers book in late spring after the seed and pollen drop, and again in late fall after the leaves are down. Waiting past the fall visit is how we end up with ice on the eaves and runs that sag by March.
Most slots come up within the week, and we confirm the date when you call at (866) 435-6328. We will tell you the earliest opening we have when you reach us.
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. The crew leaves the yard clean.
Yes, we flush every downspout and check the water flow at the outlet, and a run is clean when the water runs clear. If a downspout drains into an underground line that will not clear, we tell you, and clearing a buried line is a separate job that is quoted before anyone starts it.
Yes. Guards keep the leaves out, but the needles, seed casings and grit sit on top of the guard, and once that mat is wet, rain runs over the front edge. We lift the guards, clear underneath, flush the downspouts and reseat the panels.
If a gutter is clean and still spills water over the edge in rain, the problem is a slope or downspout size issue, not a buildup issue. Send us a photo or a short video in the rain and we will tell you what it is. We will not sell a second cleaning for a slope problem.
It should not. The price we give you on the phone is the price on the invoice, and anything that would change the job is raised before the crew starts.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
