Our own crew cleans gutters in Friendswood, every downspout flushed and flow-tested, debris 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 hangs over the roof, and the number we give you on the phone is the number on the invoice. We have been doing this work across Texas through spring and fall visits, and most of our customers here book the same two windows each year.
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 quote it over the phone or by text from those three things, and the number we quote is the number we charge. Some gutter cleaning services price by the linear foot, which lands in a similar place once the run count is added up, but we would rather give you one number for the whole house.
On our jobs, a third story or a roof too steep to walk is the first thing that changes the quote, because the crew needs a boom or scissor lift and more time on the ground. A walk-out basement or a sloped lot raises the effective height of the roofline. Gutters nobody has opened in years come down packed with leaves, grit and buildup, and a clog that has to be worked loose from the top of the gutter system takes longer than a run that is only a season behind. Guards we have to lift and reseat add time as well. Downspout flushing, flow testing and debris haul-off are included and never billed as extras, and anything that changes the job is raised with you before work starts, not on the invoice.
Our work runs through the older neighborhoods with mature trees, where a single season of leaves and seed casings can leave a gutter sagging or a drain pipe with a blockage by midsummer. On one of our jobs the quote moved because the back run had a sag and two outlets were full of grit, which we cleaned and flow-tested before the crew left. Friendswood homes with heavy tree cover tend to need the same kind of attention, and we price it from what we see on the ladder.
Commercial properties and residential properties get the same quote logic: stories, square footage and what is in the rain gutter. Homeowners with clogged downspouts or a rain gutter pulling away from the fascia can end up with structural damage if the water keeps going the wrong way, so we flag it on the first visit. The gutter exists to carry water away from the foundation, and that is the first thing we check on any quote.
| 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, in spring and fall. Across Texas, the spring visit window runs late March to April, and the fall window runs late November to December. When we open a gutter here in April we find seeds and pollen paste packed into the drain elbows, and in December it is the wet leaf mat. On houses that skipped the fall visit we have seen runs that pull loose before the next spring.
Under heavy tree cover, every three to four months is the schedule that keeps up with needles and grit packing the drains between cleanings. Few or no trees on the lot, once a year in late fall is enough. Near a busy road or active construction the grit load is heavier, so those houses also belong on the shorter schedule. Gutters with guards still need the surface cleaned, and we do that less often than an open run. Here it rains 53.3 inches a year, and heavy rainfall is most common in August, September and October, so a run that held through spring can overflow by fall. Across Texas, storm season brings Gulf hurricanes and tropical storms, and a clog in the gutter system means rainwater has nowhere to go but over the front edge. Debris removal goes with every visit, so the leaves do not sit on the lawn after the crew leaves.
After the first visit we tell you which tier your lot actually needs, so you are not guessing at the calendar. Our gutter cleaning service covers residential and commercial buildings, and the cadence is set by what the roof drops, not by a fixed rule. Gutter maintenance on a set schedule catches a clog before it turns into a repair, which is the whole point of cleaning and maintenance on a calendar. Lots here vary from one street to the next, which is why we look at the house before we set a schedule. For regular gutter cleaning, call (866) 435-6328 and we will set the first visit, and ask us to clean your gutters on whatever plan 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.
Our crew works out of the nearest base and goes across Friendswood and its surrounding areas as the calendar allows. Most homeowners book with one phone call or text, built from stories, house size and tree cover, and a photo of the front of the house helps if it is easy to send. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for the visit. Lead time is posted when you call, and the two busy windows, spring and fall, fill first.
Our gutter services cover the full gutter system, and a clean run helps protect your home from water damage at the eave and foundation line. Gutters and downspouts are where a leak usually shows first, so a few minutes on the phone now often gets a homeowner on the calendar before the next rain. Our gutter cleaning process starts with the crew checking the roof and the outlets before anything is lifted. Keep your gutters clean between visits, flush every downspout after a heavy storm, and call us when a run starts to overflow.
The number comes from stories and size, and we give it to you by phone or text. Friendswood gutter cleaning is quoted from those details, and we do not quote a figure without them. Once we have them, the number on the phone is the number on the invoice.
Most of our customers here book gutter maintenance in spring and again in fall. If the fall visit is skipped, we often find the leaf mat still sitting in the runs by the next spring, so the window matters more than the exact week.
Same-day depends on the calendar that week, so when you call to get your gutters on the schedule we confirm a date and do not promise a slot we cannot keep. Most requests come up within the week.
No, you do not need to be home. Our crew works outside, does not come inside, and sends photos of every run and downspout to your phone before the truck leaves.
Yes, every downspout is flushed, and we check that water is leaving at the outlet. If an underground drainage line is not moving water, we tell you, and clearing a buried line is a separate job that we quote before anyone touches it.
Yes. Guards keep out leaves, but on our jobs we still find needles, seed casings, the odd twig and grit sitting on top of the guard or working into the trough. We clean the surface, flush the outlets and reseat the guards.
A clean gutter that still spills water over the edge has a slope, capacity or outlet-size problem, not a cleaning problem. Water dumping onto the landscape next to the foundation, or sitting at the fascia where rot starts, needs a fix. Send us a photo or short video in the rain and we will tell you what it is, without selling a second cleaning.
It should not. If the crew finds something that changes the job, you hear about it and agree to it before work starts. For cleaning services in Friendswood, call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the roof and we will give you a written estimate.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
