Our own crew cleans gutters in Port Lavaca TX and leaves them running clean, with every run flushed and flow-tested, the leaves hauled away, and photos of each run before we leave. The price comes from the number of stories, the size of the house and how much tree cover sits over the house, and the number we give on the phone is the number on the invoice. Call (866) 435-6328 to get on the schedule. Most of our homeowners book in the spring and fall, and we keep the same schedule for the houses we return to.
Quoted from stories, size and tree cover, over the phone, with nothing added once the crew is on the roof.
The price for our gutter cleaning services depends on stories, square footage and what is sitting in the gutter system. We quote it over the phone or by text from those three things, and the number we quote is the number we charge. Other companies price by the linear foot, which lands in a similar place once you do the math, but we find the stories and the load in the trough tell us more than the footage does. A clean run with light buildup goes faster than a packed one, and that shows in the number.
What moves the quote on our jobs is usually a third story or a roof too steep to walk, a walk-out basement that puts the back run well up in the air, gutters nobody has opened in years and packed with compacted leaves, and guards we have to lift and reseat before anything can be cleared. Outlet flushing, water flow checks and debris haul-off are included in the number and are never billed as extras. If the crew finds structural damage, like a soft fascia board or a pulled bracket, you hear about it before anything else happens and the repair is quoted separately from our gutter services, while a sag in the run or a rain gutter pulling away from the fascia gets photographed and reported, not charged to repair. If something we find changes the job, you hear it and agree to it before the crew starts, never after the invoice comes.
On our jobs here the houses that take the longest are the ones with a heavy load of leaves and debris over the house, and gutters that have gone a long stretch without a visit. When the rear run is stacked with compacted leaves and the drop pipe is blocked at the elbow, the crew clears it, flushes the line and checks that water is leaving at the outlet before packing up. The quote we gave on the phone was the number on the invoice. Port Lavaca homes with clogged downspouts and buildup in the trough are the most common reason we are called out early, and the clog is almost always at the elbow rather than the top of the run. Commercial properties in town are priced per building on a schedule, and the same rule applies to every gutter maintenance visit: we quote from the building, not from a rate card. Getting water away from your home is the point of the whole visit, and the number reflects the time it takes to get it there.
| 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, once in the spring after the seed and pollen drop, and once in the fall after the last leaves have come down. In spring we find seeds, seed casings and a pollen paste packed into the elbows, which is where a blockage usually starts. In fall it is the wet leaf mat along the roofline, and on houses that skipped the fall visit we see runs that have pulled loose from the fascia by the time the rainy season is back. A clean gutter in spring is a quicker visit than one that sat through the summer.
Under heavy tree cover, we see the outlets pack between visits, and those customers are on a three to four month schedule because the needles and grit build up faster than a twice-a-year cleaning can keep up with. A house with few or no trees and a simple landscape usually needs only a once-a-year visit in late fall. Gutter guards need less frequent visits, but we still clear the surface grit on top of them, since a clog on top of the guard stops the water from getting in at all, and a clean guard drains as it should.
The one thing that does not change is the rainwater. A gutter that is holding leaves and grit will overflow in heavy rainfall, and that overflow runs down the wall toward the foundation. A regular gutter cleaning keeps it moving, and a clean run in the fall means the first storm moves through it. Estimate your visit schedule from the trees and the lot, and we confirm it when you call. Residential and commercial properties in Port Lavaca follow the same logic, and residential properties on a lot with big trees need the tightest schedule. After the first visit we tell you which tier your lot actually needs, and you can clean your gutters on that schedule from then on. Ask us about debris removal on the first visit too, since the haul-off is part of the quote we give you.
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 covers the town from the nearest base, and every Port Lavaca gutter cleaning visit is booked by phone or text. Give us your stories, the approximate size of the house and whether trees hang over it, and we send you a quote for the gutters and downspouts. A photo of the front of the house by text helps us see the eave line before the crew comes out. The booking lead time depends on the season, and we confirm a date when you call (866) 435-6328. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for the visit, so get your gutters booked before the rain starts.
Two windows of the year fill the calendar faster than the rest: late spring after the seed drop, and late fall after the leaves come down. If you want a slot in either window, book early. Our gutter services reach the surrounding areas across Port Lavaca, and the crew works the same way on every street. Every run gets photographed, a twig lodged in an outlet gets pulled by hand, and we flush every downspout, and the gutter guards are lifted and reseated before the yard is left as clean as it was found. A clean gutter is the easiest way to protect your home from water damage, and it costs less to keep the gutters running than to fix a rotted board behind them. A leak that starts behind a full gutter usually means the run has been overflowing for months. Our cleanings are booked on the schedule your lot needs. Whether you are a homeowner with a single two-story house or a building owner with a row of properties, keep your gutters on a schedule and we will keep them flowing.
The number comes from the stories, the size of the house and how much leaf load sits in the gutters. We quote it by phone or text, and the quote we give is the number on the invoice.
Most of our customers here book in late spring after the seed and pollen drop, and again in late fall after the leaves are down. If you wait past that, the outlets pack, the trough fills with wet leaf mat, and the rot starts in the fascia behind it, so the cleaning and maintenance visit runs longer than the schedule suggests.
Same-day depends on the week, and we confirm the date when you call. Most slots come up within the week. Our cleaning services in Port Lavaca run on one calendar, and we tell you the first open date on the call, so get your gutters on the calendar early.
No. Our gutter cleaning process is the same on every visit: the crew works outside, does not come inside, and sends photos of every run and outlet 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 outlet and check that drainage is moving at the end of each run, including where a drop pipe feeds an underground line, so the water runs away from your home. Clearing a buried line is a separate job and is quoted before anyone touches it.
Yes. Guards stop leaves, but needles, seed casings and grit from the landscape sit on top of the guard and turn into a paste that stops the water from getting in. We clear the surface and check that water is still running through, and that is the gutter maintenance the guard still needs.
If a clean gutter still sheets water over the edge in heavy rainfall, it is a slope or outlet-size problem, not a leaf problem. Send us a photo or a short video in the rain and we tell you what it is; we do not sell a second cleaning for a slope problem.
It should not. If the crew finds something that changes the job, you hear about it and agree to it before the work starts, never after the invoice.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
