Smithfield homeowners call us when the gutter starts spilling over the edge, and our own crew does the work. Every downspout is flushed and flow-tested, anything we pull out is hauled away, and photos of every run arrive before we leave. The price comes from stories, size and tree cover, and the number we give you on the phone is the number on the invoice. Most of our Smithfield UT customers book in the spring and fall, and we keep the same crew on the ladder from the first visit to the last. Clean your gutters before the next storm, not after.
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 give the figure over the phone or by text from those three things, and the number we give is the number we charge. We clean every run, so the figure covers the whole house. Some companies price by the linear foot, which lands in a similar place once you do the math, but we would rather give you one number you can check against the house. Our process is the same on every job, and every estimate follows the same steps.
What moves the price on our jobs is usually the same handful of things. A third story or a roof too steep to walk slows every run. A walk-out basement or a sloped lot raises the effective height of the gutter line, so the back run is further up than it looks from the yard. A rain gutter nobody has opened in years comes out packed with leaves and debris, and that takes time. Guards we have to lift and reseat add a step to every section. Downspout flushing, flow testing and haul-off are included in the price and never billed as extras. If anything we find changes the job, you hear about it before work starts, never on the invoice.
On a recent Smithfield job, the house sat on a lot with mature cover over the back run, and the gutter had a clog that had built up through the wet season. The crew got the gutter clean, flushed every downspout, and confirmed water flow ran clear to the outlet before the photos went to the owner's phone. The price was set by the number of stories and the size of the house, and what we found in the gutter did not change it. Clogged downspouts left alone are how structural damage starts, which is why we flush them on every visit.
Our crews on Smithfield homes see the same things again and again: sag in the back run, buildup at the elbows, and drainage that backs up behind the gutter. Before we settle on a figure, ask us what we find on the roof and we will tell you plainly. Gutter cleaning services in this area are a steady part of the work for us, and we would rather the first visit answer your questions than the invoice do it. If commercial properties are part of the question, tell us on the phone and we will say whether it fits our crew before any number is given.
| 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 Smithfield customers book two cleanings a year, once in the spring after the seed and pollen drop, and once in the fall after the last leaves come down. Those are the two visits that keep a gutter running clear through the wet months and the freeze. Our gutter cleaning service runs across those two windows in Smithfield UT, and the calendar fills in the same two stretches every year. We call that regular gutter cleaning, and the spring and fall visits are the ones that count.
In the spring we find seeds, seed casings and a pollen paste that packs into the downspout elbows. In the fall it is the leaf load, and where freeze risk is part of the picture, the first ice and the ice dams that form at the eave. The fall visit usually lands October to early November, and it is mostly debris removal. Across Utah, a monsoon storm can bring heavy rainfall in an hour onto a gutter that has been dry for weeks. On houses that skipped the fall visit, we see runs that have sagged or pulled loose by March. Rainwater that cannot leave the trough because of a clog spills behind it, and that is how the fascia starts to rot. A fall cleaning is the cheapest way we know to avoid a bad winter.
The schedule depends on the lot. Under heavy tree cover, needles, twigs and grit pack the outlets between visits, and those residential properties are on a schedule of every three to four months. Near a busy road or active construction, the same thing happens with dust. Homes with few or no trees do well on one visit a year in late fall. Gutter guards mean less frequent cleaning, but the surface still gets cleared, because leaves and grit sit on top of the guard and the water still has to get in. If the job is residential and commercial, tell us on the first call so we can check the building before the calendar is set.
After the first visit we tell you which tier your lot actually needs, based on what the gutter held and where the blockage formed. We do not guess at it from the street.
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.
Smithfield gutter cleaning runs across town and the surrounding areas, and our crews work from a base close enough that the drive does not eat the morning. Booking is simple. Call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the front of the house, and we will give you an estimate from stories, size and tree cover. Lead time depends on the calendar, and we confirm a date when you call. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for the visit. We check gutters and downspouts on every run, flush every downspout before we go, and keep our gutter services simple: clean, check, report.
Two windows fill fastest on our calendar: the late spring stretch after pollen drop, and the late fall stretch after the leaves are down. If you want to get your gutters on the books in either one, book early. Outside those windows there is usually room, and we will tell you what is open when you call. A visit that goes on the books now is a visit that keeps water away from the house and the foundation through the next season.
We do not do repair or installation work, so the crew comes out to clean, check and report. If something else turns up at the roofline, it is photographed and sent to you, and what to do about it is your decision. Every homeowner gets the same photo report, including any leak at a seam or joint. Our aim is to protect your home from water damage with a clean gutter system and a clear report, and to keep your gutters working between visits.
The number comes from stories, size and the landscape around the house, and we give it to you by phone or text. We do not publish a flat figure here, because the house sets the number, not a price sheet. Once we have the stories and the square footage, you get one number, and that is what the invoice says.
Most of our customers book in late spring, after the seed and pollen drop, and again in late fall, after the leaves are down. Those two visits are the core of our gutter maintenance schedule, and they keep the gutter clean through the wet season and the first freeze. The fall visit usually lands October to early November. If you wait until the snow, the ice dams are usually already at the eave.
Same-day depends on the calendar that morning. Our cleaning services in Smithfield run on booked slots, and most come up within the week. Call (866) 435-6328 and we will tell you honestly what we have open, and we confirm the date when you call.
No. Our crew works outside, does not come inside, and sends photos of every run and downspout to your phone before the truck leaves. That is the whole gutter cleaning process from our side: outside, photographed, and out of your way. Leave the side gate unlocked and keep pets inside while the ladders are up.
Yes, we flush every downspout and check that water leaves at the outlet. If a line drains underground, we confirm water is leaving and tell you if it is not. Clearing a buried line is a separate job and is quoted before anyone touches it.
Yes, guards keep leaves out but not needles, seed casings or grit. On our jobs we find that material sitting on top of the guard, and the water never gets into the trough. Guarded gutters still need cleaning and maintenance, just less often, and we clean the surface and check the flow so the water drains away from your home.
If a gutter is clean and still runs over in rain, the problem is usually slope or downspout size, not what is in the trough. Send us a photo or a short video after heavy rainfall and we will tell you what it is. We will not sell you a second cleaning for a slope problem.
It should not. The price is set by stories, size and what is in the gutters, and anything that changes the job is raised and agreed before work starts. 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.
