Our own crew cleans gutters in Portland, 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 shades the house, and the number we give you on the phone is the number on the invoice. Across Texas, spring and fall are when most Portland homeowners book, and that is when the crew is busiest.
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 in the gutters. We give the estimate over the phone or by text from those three things, and the number we quote is the number we charge. Most gutter cleaning services price by the linear foot and land in a similar place per foot of run, but on our Portland homes the stories and the amount of buildup in the trough matter more than the length of the run. A homeowner with a clean rain gutter on a single story pays the least, and the price climbs with height and clog load. Quotes for residential properties and commercial properties come from those same three questions.
What moves the quote is what the crew finds when it gets on the ladder. A third story or a roof too steep to walk takes more time and more equipment. A walk-out basement or a sloped lot raises the effective height of the gutter line, so the back run sits farther up than the front. A run with a sag in it holds water in its low spot, and a blockage at the elbow stops the drainage before it reaches the downspout, so clogged downspouts back water into the trough. Gutters nobody has opened in years come down packed with leaves and debris, compacted and gritty, and getting one clean takes longer for every clog we have to clear. Guards we have to lift and reseat add a step on each run. Flushing, flow testing and debris removal are included and never billed as extras. Each outlet is checked for water flow before the crew moves on, because a clear outlet is what carries water away from the house. If anything changes the job, you hear it before work starts, never on the invoice.
On our Portland jobs we see the same pattern across the homes we clean. A customer with a two-story house and no trees overhead had us out for a standard visit, with the trough clean and the downspout flushed in one pass. A customer with heavy tree cover on a three-story house had leaves and debris packed into the back run and two blocked downspout outlets that needed to be cleared from the top. The quote was higher for the second house because the crew needed more time and an extra step to reach the back run. Both jobs were quoted by phone before we came out, and neither one changed once the crew was up the ladder. Before the crew arrives, send a photo of the front of the house by text if it is easy to do, and tell us the number of stories and whether trees shade the house. That is enough for us to give you a number.
| 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 two cleanings a year, in spring and fall. Across Texas, the usual windows are late March to April and late November to December. On our Portland TX jobs that means the spring visit comes after the seed and pollen drop, and the fall visit comes after the last leaves have come down. A clean trough at the start of spring means the first heavy rain runs out the bottom instead of over the edge. Along the roofline, a clean run is the first thing to check after a storm. When we open a gutter here in spring we find seeds, seed casings and pollen paste packed into the elbows of the downspouts. In fall it is the leaf load, and on heavy rainfall weeks that leaf mat turns into a wet clog that holds water in the trough until it spills over the front edge.
Under heavy tree cover, we see houses that need regular gutter cleaning every three to four months, because needles and grit pack the downspout outlets between visits and the rainwater stops moving. A single twig wedged in the elbow is enough to start one. Most residential properties with few or no trees can keep to one visit a year in late fall, and that is enough for most lots. The landscape beds under the eave add their own debris in the wet months, so a yard with beds tight to the house can need a second visit. Guards change how often the crew has to go up, but they do not remove the need for cleaning and maintenance, so a guarded house still gets visited on the same schedule with the surface clean each time.
Gutter cleaning is most reliable when the schedule is set before the first heavy rain of the season. Staying on top of gutter maintenance matters more than the exact date: if you wait until the gutters overflow, the clog has usually already caused structural damage to the fascia board or the siding under the eave, and wood that stays wet starts to rot before a leak at the seam shows up on the ceiling first. If you have never had the trough cleared, clean your gutters once before the first heavy rain so we can see the starting point. Nobody here pushes a schedule on you. We tell you what we find on the first visit, and after that we tell you which tier your lot actually needs.
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 provides gutter cleaning services and other gutter services across Portland and the surrounding areas, and Portland is covered as a whole. We handle residential and commercial work the same way. Houses with gutter guards get the same booking, and we tell you what the guards need on the call. Portland gutter cleaning is booked from one calendar, and the crew will clean gutters and downspouts from the nearest base. Booking starts with a call to (866) 435-6328, or a quote by text, from the number of stories, the size of the house and whether trees shade the house, plus a photo of the house front if that is easy for you to send. A homeowner gets the number on the phone, and that is the number on the invoice. Lead time depends on the calendar that week, and we confirm the date when you call. The two busy windows of the year fill first, so if you know you want a spring or fall visit, book it early and get your gutters on the calendar before the busy weeks. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for the visit. Our crew is booked to protect your home from water damage by clearing the clog, checking the drainage at the bottom of each run, and keeping the trough clean so the gutter carries water away from your home. We flush every downspout and look for a leak at each seam, and that is what we are booked to do on each job. Keep your gutters working through the season and the rest of the house stays dry.
Most of our customers here book in late spring and late fall, when the seeds and pollen have dropped and again when the leaves are down. If you wait past the rainy months, the gutter system often has a clog that has to be cleared before anything else.
Most slots for a gutter cleaning service come up within the week, and we confirm a date when you call. We do not promise same-day service.
No. The crew works outside, leaves the trough clean, and bags what comes out so nothing blows away from your home. We send photos of every run and downspout to your phone before the truck leaves.
Yes, every downspout is flushed and flow-tested as part of our gutter cleaning process on the visit. Clearing an underground drain line is a separate job, and we quote it before anyone touches it.
Yes. Under guards we still find leaves, needles, seed casings and shingle grit sitting on top of the guard, and once that mat is wet the water runs over the front edge. We clear the surface, leave the trough clean, and check that water is getting in.
If a clean rain gutter still sheets water over the edge in rain, the problem is usually slope, capacity or downspout size, not a clog. Water that sits in a full trough runs behind it and can rot the fascia board. Send us a photo or a short video in the rain and we tell you what it actually is.
It should not. Anything that changes the job is raised with you before work starts, and the number we quote 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.
