Our own crew cleans gutters around here, every downspout flushed and flow-tested, all of it hauled off, and photos of every run before we leave. The price comes from your stories, your square footage and how much tree cover hangs over the roof, and the number we give on the phone is the number on your invoice. Across Tennessee, most of our customers book their gutters for spring and fall, when the seed drop and the leaf drop are finished and the rain starts to find the low spots.
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, how many square feet of roofline it carries 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. Companies that price by the linear foot land in a similar place per foot; we would rather give you one number for the whole house than make you multiply. Our gutter cleaning process is the same for homes like yours, whether it is a starter ranch or a two-story with a deep back run.
On our jobs, a third story or a steep pitch that cannot be walked is the biggest single driver, because the crew has to work from a boom or scissor lift instead of a ladder. A walk-out basement or a sloped lot raises the effective height of the back run. Gutters nobody has opened in years come down heavy, packed with compacted leaves and grit that has to be dug out by hand, and that buildup is where every clog at a downspout elbow starts. Gutter guards we have to lift and reseat add time, and we say so before we start. We flush every downspout, and debris removal and flow testing are included in the quote and are never billed as extras. The whole job covers gutters and downspouts, not only the stretch you can see from the driveway. If something up top changes the job, you hear about it before work starts, not on the invoice.
Our experience on local jobs is the same story on the phone as on the ladder: the quote moves with what we find. One job where the house sat under a heavy tree canopy needed its runs cleared twice as often as the open lot next door, and the quote reflected it from the first call. We do not hide that in a flat rate. Compare quotes by the number they give you, not the number on their website, and ask any gutter service for it in writing before the crew pulls up. Think of the job as cleaning and maintenance, not a one-time fix, because gutter maintenance costs less than a rotted fascia board. Paying for the job is really paying to protect your home from water damage. A house that takes heavy rainfall without spilling is what the quote buys, and the flushed downspout carries the water away from your home instead of letting it pool at the foundation. A homeowner who sends a photo of the front of the house by text usually hears a firm number within the hour, and that number holds through the visit.
| 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 here book two cleanings a year: across Tennessee the spring visit lands in mid to late May after the seed and pollen drop, and the fall visit in late October to November, after the last leaves are down. In May we open downspout elbows packed with seeds and pollen paste, and a clean run after that is the goal. In November it is the wet mat of leaves and debris, and on houses that skipped the fall visit we see runs that sag or have pulled loose by March. Freezing is real here, and rainwater trapped behind a clog turns into ice at the eave, which is why the fall visit is the one we push hardest.
Under heavy tree cover, we see customers on a schedule of every three to four months, because needles, a stray twig, grit and seed casings pack the clogged downspouts between visits and a gutter that looks clean from the ground can be half blocked underneath. A leak at a seam is often the first sign. A house with few or no trees usually does fine once a year in late fall, and if you clean your gutters yourself, wait for the last leaves. Gutters with guards still need the surface cleared and the guard checked, though less often than open gutters. Commercial properties near a busy road or a construction site should plan on the shorter interval as well. Regular gutter cleaning on that schedule keeps the fascia dry, and skipping it is how a sagging run turns into structural damage. The same logic runs for residential and commercial buildings: the run fills, the water spills, and the fascia pays.
After the first visit we tell you which tier your lot actually needs, based on what the crew found in the gutter system and in the yard below the roofline. The right time to get your gutters on the right schedule is before the first freeze, because a rain gutter that holds through a wet March is the goal for every tier. Heavy rainfall in March exposes a bad schedule fast, so whatever the tier, the goal is a clean gutter line that holds through the next storm. Every tier gets the same gutter cleaning services crew, so the schedule is the only thing that changes.
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.
We work across Soddy-Daisy, TN from the nearest crew base, and our gutter cleaning service is booked by phone or text. Call (866) 435-6328, or send a photo of the house front if it is easy, tell us the stories, the rough square footage and whether trees hang over the house, and we give you a number and an arrival window. Lead time moves with the season, so ask us for the next open date when you call instead of assuming one. Across Tennessee the busy window opens in mid to late May, and our calendar fills again in late October into November, when every homeowner in the area remembers the gutters at once. Homes in the surrounding areas get the same quote by phone, along with the same drainage check and water flow test.
We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for exterior work. If your schedule is tight, tell us the days you can leave the side gate open and we will work around it, and the crew leaves the yard clean either way. For Soddy-Daisy homes that want the same crew on the same schedule every year, we keep a booking note on the job so the next visit starts from what we found last time. Residential properties on a wooded lot get that note too.
If you are pricing cleaning services in Soddy-Daisy, the number comes from the stories, the square footage and what is in the gutters, and we give you an estimate by phone or text. We do not quote a range without those three things. Once you give us the details, the number holds through the visit.
Across Tennessee the spring visit lands in mid to late May, after the seed and pollen drop. Here the fall visit is late October to November, after the leaves are down and before the first hard freeze. If the fall visit gets skipped, we see sagging runs and ice trapped at the eave by March.
Most slots come up within the week, and we confirm the exact date when you call. Same-day depends on the calendar that week, so we will tell you honestly what we have open. Call (866) 435-6328 and we will check.
No. Our gutter services are exterior work, so the 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, keep pets inside while the ladders are up, and the crew leaves the yard clean.
Yes, we flush every downspout and confirm the water leaves at the outlet, and that clean outlet tells us the drainage is moving. Clearing a blockage in a buried drain line is a separate job, and we quote it before anyone touches it. Hauling away what comes out is part of the visit either way.
Yes, but less often. On our jobs the guard keeps the leaves out and the needles and grit still settle on top, so we clear the surface, lift the panels and check that the gutters and downspouts are actually taking water. The guard is there to help you keep your gutters clear, not to replace the visit.
A gutter that is clean and still spilling in the rain has a slope or downspout-size problem, not a clog problem. Send us a short video in the rain and we will tell you what it is, without selling you a second cleaning. Getting it right is how we protect your home from water damage.
Only if something changes the job, and in that case you hear it and agree to it before work starts. The number we quote on the phone is the number on the invoice. Any gutter service worth the call should tell you that much.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
