Our own crew cleans gutters in Madison Heights, flushes every downspout, tests the flow, hauls the debris away, and sends photos of every run before we leave. The price comes from your stories, your home's size and how much tree cover sits 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, once the seeds and the leaves have dropped.
Quoted from stories, size and tree cover, over the phone, with nothing added once the crew is on the roof.
The price depends on how many stories the house has, its square footage and what is sitting in the gutters. We give you an estimate over the phone or by text from those three things, and the number we quote is the number we charge. Other gutter cleaning services price by the linear foot and land in a similar place per foot, but the number on the phone is the one that counts for your house.
On our jobs, a few things move the quote. 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 roofline. Gutters nobody has opened in years come down packed with compacted leaves, and a clog like that takes longer to clear than a light fall of leaves. Gutter guards that we have to lift and reseat add time too. A gutter that was kept clean since the last visit takes the least time. Downspout flushing, flow testing and debris removal are included and never billed as extras. If anything changes the job, we tell you before work starts, never on the invoice.
The same patterns show up in Madison Heights homes. The houses with heavy tree cover tend to have the worst buildup, while the ones with few trees rarely have a clog deep enough to slow the crew down. A clean trough with a dry downspout is the goal on every job. Where any run shows a sag, the job is still a cleaning, but we photograph it and tell you what we found. Leaves and debris pile up fastest where the water flow is slowest, so a sag shows up first as a wet fascia board on the back run. We check the drainage at every downspout and flush each one until the water runs clear, because a rain gutter that drains into a blocked line will keep overflowing even after the trough is empty. Clogged downspouts send rainwater right back toward the foundation, which is how structural damage starts, so we treat every downspout as part of the job and not an add-on. A flushed line moves water away from your home. A gutter only does its job when it carries water away, and a homeowner with a sagged run should hear that from us before the first big rain. If you have a picture of the front of the house, text it to us and we can usually tell you where the quote will land before we ever drive out.
| 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.
Across Virginia, most of our customers book twice a year, once in late spring after the seed and pollen drop, and again in late fall after the last leaves come down. The same timing works for residential and commercial buildings, so clean your gutters right after the seed drop and again once the leaves are down. In spring we find seeds, seed casings, the odd twig and pollen paste packed into the downspout elbows. In fall it is the wet leaf mat, and on houses that skipped the fall visit we often see runs that have sagged, pulled loose or started to leak at the seams by the time winter ends. Madison Heights sees the most heavy rainfall in May, June and July, and averages about 43.6 inches of rain a year.
Under heavy tree cover, we see the gutter clog faster than anywhere else, because needles and grit pack the runs between visits. Those customers are on a schedule of every three to four months. Regular gutter cleaning on that schedule keeps the trough from filling between visits. A dense landscape around the roofline is the usual cause, and one blockage at a downspout elbow is enough to back water up a whole run. A house with few or no trees usually needs one visit a year, in late fall, and that is enough. Gutter guards cut down how often the trough fills, but we still clear the surface, leave the trough clean, and check the flow, so the schedule drops to less often rather than never. Houses near a busy road or a construction site pick up grit faster than others, so they need a clean sooner and move to the shorter schedule too. Residential properties with a lot of mature trees hit the schedule hardest.
After the first visit, once the gutters are clean, we tell you which tier your lot actually needs, based on what we found in the gutters and under the roofline, not on a general rule.
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 works across Madison Heights and the surrounding areas from the nearest base, and we keep a steady route through the city. Our cleaning services in Madison Heights start with one phone call. If you are in Madison Heights VA, the Madison Heights gutter cleaning route already reaches your street. A homeowner books our gutter cleaning service by calling (866) 435-6328 or texting a photo of the front of the house, and we will give you a quote from your stories, your home's size and how much tree cover sits over the roof. Lead time depends on the calendar, and to get your gutters on it, ask for the first open date when you call.
Most of our cleanings land in those two busy windows of the year, spring and fall, so if you want a slot in those months, book early. The gutter cleaning process runs from that first call to the photos on your phone. We call before we come, nobody needs to be home for the cleaning, and we clean up after ourselves on the ground. When we arrive, we work from the outside, and you will get photos of every run on your phone before we leave. We flush every downspout and check the flow on the way out. Our gutter services cover gutters and downspouts, and a cleaning on schedule helps protect your home from water damage. We work residential properties most often, and commercial properties go through the same phone quote. Cleaning and maintenance are quoted on one call. If you want gutter maintenance all year, we can set up a schedule to keep your gutters clean at the tier your lot needs.
The number comes from the stories, the square footage and what is in the gutters. Call (866) 435-6328 or text us a photo of the front of the house, and we will give you the price on the phone. That number is the one on the invoice.
Most of our customers here book in late spring and again in late fall. If the fall visit gets skipped, we often find sagged runs and fascia rot by March, because the first ice and the wet leaf mat do their damage in winter. The late fall visit is the one that protects the house through the cold.
Our calendar depends on the week and the season. Call (866) 435-6328 and we will tell you the first open date. Most slots come up within the week, and we confirm the date when you call.
No. Our crew works from the outside and does not come inside the house. Leave the side gate unlocked and keep pets inside while the ladders are up, and we send photos of every run before we leave. We leave every trough clean, and the photos show it.
Yes, every downspout in the gutter system gets flushed and flow-tested, and we check that the water is leaving at the outlet. A clean flow test is the last step on every downspout. If a downspout feeds an underground line, we tell you whether water is leaving the line. Clearing a buried line is a separate job and we quote it before anyone touches it.
Yes. Guards keep leaves out, but needles, seed casings and grit still settle on top and under the guard. A guarded gutter can look clean from the ground and still hold a wet mat underneath. We lift the panels, clear underneath, flush each downspout and reseat the guards, so the schedule runs less often rather than stopping.
A clean gutter that still overflows in rain usually has a slope or downspout-size problem, not a debris 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.
Only if we find something that changes the job, and we tell you before we start. 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.
