Our own crew gets your gutters clean, every downspout flushed and flow-tested, the mess 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 is overhead, and the number we give on the phone is the number on the invoice. Most of our customers book in spring and fall.
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 gutters. We quote it over the phone or by text from those three things, and the number we give you is the number we charge. The same method covers residential properties and the smaller commercial jobs. Some companies price by the linear foot, which lands in a similar place once the length is multiplied out, but on our jobs the house itself tells us more than the footage does.
What moves the number on our gutter cleaning jobs is usually the same handful of things, and a homeowner can spot most of them from the driveway. A third story or a roof too steep to walk takes more time on the ladder and more care on the way down. A walk-out basement or a sloped lot raises the effective height of the roofline, so the back run sits farther up than the front. A rain gutter that nobody has opened in years holds compacted debris, and that packed mat takes longer to clean out than a light fall load. Guards we have to lift and reseat add a step to every run, and a clog at a downspout elbow can add more time than the run itself. Gutter flushing, flow testing and debris removal are included and are never billed as extras. Every gutter system gets the same flow check before we leave. Anything that changes the job gets raised before work starts, not on the invoice.
When a rear run sits out of level and is holding a full season of leaves and grit, with clogged downspouts feeding the foundation, the crew clears the run and flushes the downspout until the water runs clear at the bottom. Then it checks the drainage at the outlet and leaves the yard clean. Water pooling at the foundation is the real problem to solve, because that is how a house takes on structural damage over time. The number reflects the height of the roofline and the buildup we had to remove, and the invoice matches it. Keeping water away from the foundation is the whole goal of the visit.
On houses with a heavy tree canopy the gutters collect the most leaves and debris, and the fine grit underneath is what slows the water flow. We have seen it on enough Chester homes to say the number changes accordingly, and we put that in writing before we start. The same is true on residential and commercial properties, where the roof area and the number of downspout runs drive the number more than the storey count does. Every estimate is built the same way, from what we can see and measure.
| 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 homeowners in Chester VA book two cleanings a year, once in the spring after seed and pollen drop, and once in the fall after the last leaves come down. Across Virginia the spring visit falls in mid to late May, and when we open a gutter then we usually find seeds and pollen packed into the elbows and a paste that sticks to the gutter bottom. By November it is a wet leaf mat, and that is the load that creates a clog in the downspout before the first hard weather. In the fall we also check for the first ice at the eave and any runs that have started to sag, because a gutter that sags under a season of leaves is the one that pulls loose once the freezing starts. Water that sits behind a sagging run can rot the fascia. A gutter left clean after the spring visit holds up longer through the wet summer.
How often you clean your gutters depends on the lot. Houses with a light tree load and a few shade trees do well on the twice-a-year schedule, and a house with few or no trees around it can often go once a year in late fall. Under heavy tree cover, needles, twig pieces and grit pack the outlets between visits, and one blockage at a downspout is enough to back water up the run. Those lots are on a schedule of every three to four months. Houses near a busy road or an active construction site fall into the same faster schedule, because dust and grit collect in the gutters quickly. Gutter guards slow the leaf load but do not stop the grit, so guarded gutters still get kept clean at the surface on the same rhythm, just less often than open ones. The wettest months are June, July and August, and that heavy rainfall is when a full gutter overflows first.
A house with no trees over the roof can keep to the once-a-year fall visit and still run clean through the rainy season. Under a heavy canopy the schedule tightens, and at each visit the downspouts are packed with needles. Those two lots need different schedules, and that is the point of the first visit. After the first visit we tell you which tier your lot actually needs. Gutters that are clean go a long way toward keeping water away from the foundation, and regular gutter cleaning on the right schedule is how to keep them that way.
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 cleaning services run out of the nearest base and cover the surrounding areas. Every gutter cleaning service we book starts with an estimate by phone or text based on stories, size and tree cover, and a photo of the house front helps if it is easy to send. Lead time depends on the season, so to get your gutters on the calendar, call early and we confirm a date while you are on the line rather than promising a slot we cannot keep. The two busiest windows of the year are late spring and late fall, when the calendar fills fastest, so booking early in those months gets you the date you want. To book chester gutter cleaning, call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the house front.
We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for the visit. The crew works from the outside, so the gate and the driveway are the only things we ask you to clear, and the landscape beside the house is left as we found it. Before the truck leaves, you get photos of every run and downspout on your phone, so you can see what we cleaned without having to check it yourself. If we find a hanger pulling loose or a leak at a seam, that goes in the report with the photo, and we leave the decision with you.
If you keep your gutters clean, the rainwater stays where it belongs, away from your home, the walls and the foundation. We clear gutters and downspouts together, flush every downspout, and check where each one drains, because a clear gutter with a twig jammed at the bottom still lets water back up. Homeowners who keep to a regular gutter maintenance schedule avoid the expensive kind of damage that starts as a stain and becomes a repair, and our gutter services are built around that schedule to protect your home from water damage over the years.
The number comes from the stories, the size of the house and how much buildup is in the gutters, and we give it to you by phone or text. We do not quote a figure from the number of stories alone, because the same two-story house can take very different amounts of time depending on what is in the gutters.
Across Virginia, spring visits fall in mid to late May after the seed drop, and the fall visit runs November to early December after the leaves are down. On houses that skipped the fall visit we see runs that sagged under ice over the winter, which is why the fall visit matters here. A sagging run is the first one we check for rot in the fascia board, and we note it in the photo report.
Most slots come up within the week, and we confirm a date when you call. Same-day depends on the crew schedule that week, so we would rather tell you the real date than promise one we cannot keep.
No. Our crew works from the 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, and that is the whole list.
Yes, every downspout is flushed and checked at the outlet, and the ground and landscape beside the house are left clean. We tell you if water is not leaving. Clearing a buried drain line is a separate job, priced before anyone touches it.
Yes. Guards keep out the leaves, but on our jobs we find needles, seed casings and grit sitting on top of the guard and settling underneath. Once that mat gets wet, the water runs off the front edge, so guarded gutters still need the surface cleared, just less often.
A clean gutter that still sheets water over the edge in rain has a slope or capacity problem, not a debris problem. Send us a photo or a short video in the rain, and we tell you what it actually is rather than selling a second cleaning.
It should not. The number is built from what we can see before we start, and if the crew finds something that changes the job, you hear about it and agree to it before work begins, never on the invoice. Call (866) 435-6328 to book a date, and we will give you the number before anyone climbs a ladder.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
