Our crew cleans gutters at your home, with every downspout flushed and flow-tested, debris hauled off, 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 is over the roof, and the number we give you on the phone is the number on the invoice. Across Virginia, most of our customers book in the spring and fall, and we are glad to give you an estimate from a few details about your house.
Quoted from stories, size and tree cover, over the phone, with nothing added once the crew is on the roof.
The price is set by stories, square footage and what is sitting in the gutters. We work out the number over the phone or by text from those three things, and that number is what we charge. Some gutter cleaning services price by the linear foot, which lands in a similar place per foot of run, but we would rather you know the whole number before we climb.
What moves the price 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, a gutter system nobody has opened in years and packed solid with leaf mat, and guards we have to lift and reseat. Downspout flushing, flow testing and debris removal are already in the number and are never billed as extras. Once the runs are clean, we test the flow and tell you what we see. If anything we find changes the job, you hear about it before work starts, never on the invoice.
On our jobs, the price that climbs most is the one where the gutter has been left alone for years. When we open a run like that, the gutter is often holding a clog of compacted leaves and grit that has rotted into a mat, and the water flow is low even after the surface is clean. Most of the time the worst of it is a clog at the elbow, packed with wet leaves. We clear clogged downspouts, flush every downspout and check the drainage at the outlet so you can see the water leaving. That is the part that takes time, and it is why the first visit on an old run costs more than a routine cleaning on a house that is kept up. Most of the homeowners we see twice a year come back on a schedule, which keeps the gutter from getting to that point and keeps the quote closer to the routine number.
We do residential and commercial work. The residential properties we see are a mix of ages and styles, and the Bon Air homes on our books range from older houses to newer ones. We also clean commercial properties with the same crew and the same photo report, and a commercial building is priced the same way, by stories, size and what is in the gutters. For the homes on our regular gutter cleaning schedule, the price is steady year to year. If you have been putting it off, call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the house and we will give you a written estimate for your Bon Air VA home.
| 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 homeowners book twice a year. Across Virginia, spring visits run mid to late May, after the seed and pollen drop, and the fall visit runs November to early December, after the last leaves come down. In spring we find seeds, seed casings and pollen paste packed into the elbow of each downspout. In fall it is the leaf mat along the roofline, leaves and debris packed into the trough, and where the first hard freeze has come through, the ice dams at the eave and runs that have started to sag. On houses that skipped the fall visit, we see those runs pulling loose by March. Statewide the picture is the same, but the timing shifts a little with the weather.
Under heavy tree cover, with big trees over the house, our customers are on a schedule of every three to four months, because needles, a twig or two, and grit pack each downspout between visits. With few or no trees, once a year in late fall is enough. Bon Air VA gets about 47.1 inches of precipitation a year, and June, August and September are the wettest months, so a blocked run is most likely to overflow then. Guards cut down how often you need us, but a guarded gutter still needs a clean on top, so they come off the list less often than people expect.
We do not put a figure on how much water a gutter holds, but on the jobs we see, a run that is clean at the top and still overflowing almost always has a blockage lower down, at the elbow or the outlet. That is what the visit checks, including any leak at a seam. Keep your gutters and downspouts on a schedule and you help protect your home from water damage around the foundation and the fascia, and it keeps the water away from your home instead of letting the rainwater sit in the trough. A sagging run that holds water can also lead to structural damage at the fascia. After the first visit we tell you which of our gutter services 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 covers the surrounding areas from the nearest base, and we clean across the whole service area. Bon Air gutter cleaning starts with an estimate by phone or text from the number of stories, the size of the house and the tree cover, and a photo of the front of the house is a big help if it is easy to send. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for the work. If your gutter guards are on, say so when you book, since the crew lifts them to clean underneath. Lead times change with the season, and we will tell you the first date we have when you call.
The two busiest windows on our calendar are late spring and late fall, when the seed drop and the leaf drop both come through, and when heavy rainfall starts to find the blocked runs. If you want a slot in those windows, book early, because the crew fills up. A clean gutter before the first freeze is the goal, and the calendar fills in those weeks. Ask about a date for a repeat visit when you book the first one, so the next cleaning and maintenance visit is already on the calendar.
Whether you have a single-story ranch or a three-story house with a walk-out, the route to a clean gutter is the same: the gutters first, every downspout flushed so the water runs away from your home, and photos sent to you before we leave. Gutter maintenance done on a schedule is less work, and cleanings on a schedule leave far less buildup than a run left alone for years. When you are ready for the gutter cleaning process to start, call (866) 435-6328 and ask for a date, and we will get your gutters on the calendar.
Every homeowner asks this first, and the number for our cleaning services in Bon Air comes from the stories, the size of the house and what is in the gutters. We give it to you by phone or text, and we do not guess on the phone. If you send a photo of the front of the house, we can tighten the estimate.
Across Bon Air, most of our customers book in late spring and late fall. If you wait past the first hard freeze, the leaf mat and the ice on the eave are harder to clear, and a loose run can cause structural damage and fascia rot. Tree cover and the landscape around the house set the schedule, and we give you the right interval after the first visit.
Lead times change with the season. When you call, we confirm the first date we have, and if you want to clean your gutters before the next storm, ask for the earliest slot.
No. Our 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 check that the water is leaving at the outlet. Clearing an underground drain line is a separate job, and we quote it before anyone touches it.
Yes. On our jobs, the guards keep leaves and debris out but the needles, seed casings and grit settle on top of the guard and into the trough. We lift the panels, clean underneath, flush each downspout and reseat the guards.
A rain gutter that is clean and still overflowing usually has a slope or downspout-size problem, not a cleaning problem. Send us a photo or a short video of it in the rain and we will tell you what it actually 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 it and agree to it before they start, and the invoice matches the quote.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
