Our own crew handles the cleaning here, and we flush every downspout, test the flow, haul away what comes out, and send photos of every run before we leave. The price comes from your stories, your roof size and how much tree cover is over the house, and the number we give on the phone is the number on the invoice. Lufkin homeowners book in the spring and fall, when seed drop and falling leaves have done their work on the gutters and downspouts. A clean system moves water away from your home. Call (866) 435-6328 for a phone quote.
Quoted from stories, size and tree cover, over the phone, with nothing added once the crew is on the roof.
Gutter cleaning services here are priced from stories, square footage and what is sitting in the gutters. We quote over the phone or by text from those three things, and the number we quote is the number we charge. Quotes for residential and commercial work use the same three inputs, and Lufkin homes and residential properties are measured the same way. Other companies price by the linear foot, which lands in a similar place once the house is measured. If you want to know what it costs to clean your gutters, send us the stories and a photo of the front of the house.
On our jobs the things that move a quote are a third story or a pitch too steep to walk, a walk-out basement that puts the back run far up the wall, gutters nobody has opened in years and packed solid with old grit, and guards we have to lift and reseat before we can reach the trough. Downspout flushing, flow testing and debris removal are included and never billed as extras. A sag in a run, a clog in the elbow or a buildup of grit adds time on the ladder, and our water flow and drainage checks catch it early. If something changes the job, you hear it and agree to it before work starts, never on the invoice. Spring and fall are the busiest windows, so ask for your date early and we will keep the job clean from first ladder to last.
Here is what a clogged run looks like when the crew opens it. Leaves and grit pack the trough, water backs up behind the blockage, and the front edge starts sheeting water in every heavy rainfall. Regular gutter cleaning is what keeps a run from getting that far. Sagging runs and blocked elbows are the usual cause, and the crew photographs the sag and reports it without selling any work on it. Once the gutters are clean and we flush every downspout, the photos show the result before the truck leaves.
| 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 twice a year, in the spring after the seed and pollen drop and in the fall after the last leaves come down. Across Texas, the spring visit window runs late March to April. In spring we find seeds, seed casings and pollen paste packed into the elbows. Our fall visits in Lufkin run late November to December, when the wet leaf load comes down, and houses that skipped that visit often show runs that have sagged or pulled loose by winter. Regular cleaning keeps leaves and needles from building into a clog, and a clean trough at each visit is the goal.
On a house with heavy tree cover, the gutters fill faster, so our customers here come back on a shorter schedule, because needles and grit pack the trough between visits. Houses with few or no trees do well on one visit a year in late fall. Guarded gutters still need clearing on top, and we check the trough on those less often. A sloped landscape sends water toward the foundation, so the roofline and the outlets get a closer look. After the first visit we tell you which schedule your lot actually needs, and we note any clog that is building up before the next rainy season. Keep your gutters clear and water stays off the fascia. Clean your gutters before the wet months and you avoid the leak that shows up in the first heavy rain.
In Lufkin TX, rainfall averages 50.9 inches a year, and January, May and December are the wettest months, so the schedule is timed around them. Freeze risk is real here in winter, and rainwater trapped in a blockage can turn into an ice dam at the eave. A clogged run can also cause structural damage to the fascia and soffit over time. Our gutter services start with an estimate of your schedule. Every visit we clear the gutters and downspouts, flush every downspout, and check drainage at the outlet, which helps protect your home from water damage. The same schedule logic applies in town and surrounding areas.
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 done cleaning services for several neighborhoods, and we clean gutters the same way on every street. Lufkin gutter cleaning follows the same steps for every homeowner, from the first call to the last photo. The gutter cleaning process starts with stories, size and tree cover, plus a photo of the front of the house by text if that is easy for you. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for the visit. The process ends with clean runs and water moving away from your home. Booking is handled by phone at (866) 435-6328, and we confirm the date when you call.
Our calendar fills in the two busy windows of the year, spring and fall, so the earlier you call, the easier it is to get your gutters on the schedule you want. We keep the lead time and the open dates current, so you always have a clean view of the calendar, and we will tell you plainly when the next opening is. Visits for cleaning and maintenance are booked the same way, so tell us if you want both on one trip. A twig lodged at a downspout elbow can back water over the lip and start a leak, so gutter maintenance on our visits always checks for one. Gutter guards help, but they do not replace cleanings. If a storm or a heavy rainfall forecast is coming, tell us when you call so we can plan the route around it.
The number comes from the stories and the size of the house, and we give it to you by phone or text. We do not quote a figure without those details. Downspout flushing and debris removal are in that number, and a gutter system with guards is quoted as its own job.
Most of our customers book in the spring after seed drop and in the fall after the leaves and debris come down. In late winter we see the rot that comes from a skipped fall visit, in the fascia board and behind the trough, so the fall visit is the one we push hardest.
Same-day depends on our calendar that week, and most slots come up within the week. Our cleaning services in Lufkin are booked by phone, and we confirm a date when you call so you know exactly when the crew will be there.
No. Our crew works outside, does not come inside, and sends photos of every run and downspout to your phone before the truck leaves. The crew leaves the ground clean. Leave the side gate unlocked and keep pets inside while the ladders are up.
Yes, every downspout is flushed and we check that water is leaving at the outlet. If a line drains underground and needs clearing, that is a separate job and we quote it before anyone touches it. The same flush and drainage check applies to commercial properties.
Yes. Guards stop leaves, but needles, seed casings and grit sit on top of the guard and can stop water getting in. We clear what sits on the guard and check that water is still reaching the trough. Guards can hide clogged downspouts until the next heavy rain shows them.
Send us a photo or a short video of the overflow in the rain. A gutter that is clean and still overflowing usually has a slope or downspout size problem, and we tell you what it is rather than selling a second cleaning. On a sloped landscape the job is getting water away from the foundation, and a clean trough alone does not do that.
It should not, and the invoice should be as clean as the quote. If the crew finds something that changes the job, such as a rain gutter that has pulled away from the fascia or structural damage behind it, you hear it and agree to it before they start, never after the work is done.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
