Our own crew cleans gutters in Plano TX, flushing every downspout, flow-testing each run, hauling the leaves away, and sending photos of every run before we leave. Clearing the gutters helps protect your home from water damage. The price comes from your stories, the size of the house and how much tree cover sits over the roof, and the number we give on the phone is the number on the invoice. Most of our Plano customers clean their gutters in the spring and fall, once seed drop and leaf fall have finished.
Quoted from stories, size and tree cover, over the phone, with nothing added once the crew is on the roof.
Quotes for Plano homes come from three things: stories, square footage and what is sitting in the gutter system. We quote it over the phone or by text, and the number we quote is the number we charge. Companies that price by the linear foot land in a similar place per foot, but on our jobs the stories and the access matter more than the length of the run.
What moves a quote on our Plano jobs is usually one of four things. A third story or a steep roof that is not safe to walk. A walk-out basement or a sloped lot that raises the effective height of the roofline. Gutters that have not been opened in years, packed with compacted leaves and grit, which take longer to clean and often sag at the joints. Gutter guards we have to lift and reseat before the gutter underneath can be cleaned. Downspout flushing, flow testing and debris removal are included and are never billed as extras, and anything that changes the job is raised before work starts, never on the invoice.
A clog is the problem we see most often, usually at the elbow, where seeds and pollen set into a paste and the buildup makes the water back up into the trough. We flush every downspout and watch the water flow until it runs clear at the bottom. When it does, the drainage is working; when it does not, we say so in the report. Our crew does not guess at a drainage problem from the ground. Homes with mature trees often need this kind of clean, which is why a regular gutter cleaning schedule starts with the first visit and not with a quote on paper.
We provide gutter cleaning services for residential and commercial buildings across our coverage area, and our cleaning services in Plano follow the same process as everywhere else we work. For residential properties, the price is set the same way: from the stories, the size and the amount of material in the gutters and downspouts. Gutter services for a commercial building are quoted per building. Clean your gutters on a schedule that matches the season, and the price stays predictable.
| 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 Plano customers clean twice a year, once in the spring and once in the fall. Across Texas the spring visit falls late March to April, after the seed and pollen drop, and the fall visit late November to December, after the last leaves and debris come down. When we open a gutter in April we often find seeds, seed casings and pollen paste packed into the downspout elbows, and a single blockage there is enough to back water over the edge. In late fall it is the wet leaf mat, and on houses that skipped the fall visit we often find runs that sag or pull loose by March. Here the wettest months are May, June and October, with about 41.9 inches of rain a year, and heavy rainfall in those months finds the gutters still loaded. Rainwater that cannot leave the rain gutter spills over the front edge.
Under heavy tree cover, the gutters need more attention than the two standard visits, because needles and grit pack the downspouts between visits and a clog forms that makes the gutter overflow at the first hard rain. Between visits, the simplest way to keep your gutters flowing is to check the downspouts after a storm. With few or no trees over the roof, a single late fall visit is usually enough to clean the runs, though a twig caught in a downspout still needs clearing. Near a busy road, a construction site or a bare landscape, the grit builds up faster, and the same rule applies: the closer the source of grit, the shorter the interval.
Guarded gutters get a clean less often, but the surface still needs clearing, because the mat on top of the guard holds the water that spills over the edge, and that water can leak behind the fascia. Left alone, that water can rot the wood and cause structural damage. After the first visit we tell each homeowner which schedule their lot actually needs, and the schedule follows from what we find in the gutters, not from a general rule. Call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of your gutters to book the spring or fall date before the calendar fills.
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.
Plano gutter cleaning runs on the same crew and visit schedule across Plano TX and the surrounding areas, so most Plano homeowners sit on the same calendar. Call (866) 435-6328 or text us your stories, the approximate square footage and whether trees hang over the roof, and a photo of the front of the house if that is easy. The estimate comes back from those details, and a date gets confirmed when we call. Lead time depends on the season, and the two busy windows, late March to April and late November to December, fill the calendar first, so it is worth booking early.
We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for the visit. The crew works outside and does not come inside. If you are booking for commercial properties or a rental, the same gutter cleaning process applies, and the per-building schedule can be set once for the year. Get your gutters on a regular cycle and the gutter maintenance stays predictable, because the cleanings on that cycle include the maintenance check, so cleaning and maintenance are covered in one visit. Keeping the runs clear keeps water away from your home, which is the whole point of the visit.
The number comes from the stories and the size of the house, and we give it by phone or text. We do not quote a figure from the page; we quote the house.
Most of our customers here book in late March to April, after the seed and pollen drop, and again in late November to December, after the leaves and debris come down. If the fall visit is skipped, the wet leaf mat and any ice that forms where winters freeze can sag the runs by March.
Our cleaning services in Plano are booked by date, so same-day is not something we promise. Call (866) 435-6328 to ask about the next open date, and we confirm it when you book.
No. 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 and keep pets inside while the ladders are up.
Yes, we flush every downspout and watch the water until it runs clear at the bottom. Clogged downspouts are a common place for backups to start, so that check comes first. Where a downspout feeds an underground line we check that water leaves at the outlet and tell you if it does not. Clearing a buried line is a separate job and is quoted before anyone starts.
Yes. On our jobs we find leaves, seeds and needles threaded through the guard, seed casings and pollen sitting on top, and grit settled underneath. Once that mat is wet, the rain runs over the front edge instead of into the rain gutter, so the surface still needs a clean.
A gutter system that is clean and still sheets water over the edge in rain has a slope, capacity or downspout-size problem, not a cleaning problem. A landscape that slopes toward the house is another common cause. A downspout that is too small may not carry water away from your home fast enough, and left alone that can lead to rot and structural damage. Send us a photo or short video in the rain and we tell you what it is; we do not sell a second cleaning for a slope problem.
Only if the crew finds something that changes the job, and you hear it and agree to it before work starts, never on the invoice. The number we give on the phone is the number on the invoice.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
