Our own crew cleans your gutters, every downspout flushed and flow-tested, debris hauled away, and photos of every run before we leave. Homeowners here get one service from the same crew start to finish, with the gutters and each downspout checked on every visit. The price comes from your stories, your home's size and how much tree cover hangs over the house, and the number we give you on the phone is the number on your invoice. Most of our customers book in the spring and fall, and we have been working these gutters that way on every visit.
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. Airway Heights homes vary a lot, so we quote from those three things by phone or text, and the number we quote is the number we charge. Some gutter cleaning services price by the linear foot, which lands in a similar place once the length is measured, but we would rather give you one number you can plan around. We also get asked about commercial properties, and because residential and commercial buildings differ in height and access, ask on the call and we will say honestly whether a building is one we can take.
On our jobs, these are the things that move a quote. A third story or a roof too steep to walk takes longer and more equipment. A walk-out basement or a sloped lot puts the back run farther up than it looks from the driveway. Gutters nobody has opened in years come out packed with leaves and debris, and the buildup in the trough takes more hours to clear than a light load. Clogged downspouts add time at the elbows, where the water flow slows and backs up. Guards we have to lift and reseat add time on every run. Downspout flushing, flow testing and debris removal are included in the quote and never billed as extras. A clean rain gutter carries water away from your home, and that is what the quote pays for. If anything we find changes the job, you hear about it before work starts, never on the invoice.
On one of our jobs, a customer had a two-story house under heavy tree cover where the clog sat in the lower downspout elbows and the drainage out the back was slow. The crew would flush every downspout on a job like that, and once the elbow was cleared the drainage out the back ran clean. You can read the full job here: Airway Heights job record. Call (866) 435-6328 to get your gutters priced. Tell us the stories, the size and whether trees hang over the roof, and we will give you a number on the call, along with a photo of the front of the house if you text one.
| One story | Two stories | Three stories or steep | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1,500 sq ft | from $150 | from $225 | from $295 |
| 1,500 to 2,500 sq ft | from $200 | from $260 | from $335 |
| Over 2,500 sq ft | from $235 | from $305 | from $395 |
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 twice a year, once in the spring after the seed and pollen drop, and once in the fall, late September to October, after the last leaves come down. Each visit finds something different. In spring we pull seeds, seed casings and pollen paste from the elbows. In fall we clean out the leaf load, and on houses that skip the fall visit, the first ice and any ice dams at the eave show up in the gutter before the snow does. When rainwater cannot leave the trough, it finds the weakest seam, and a small leak there is usually the first sign. Airway Heights WA gets about 17.4 inches of precipitation a year, and the wettest months are November, December and January, so a gutter that is clogged going into those months has no slack. Across Washington, atmospheric rivers and Pacific fronts bring the heavy rainfall that tests a gutter hardest.
Under heavy tree cover, every three to four months is the rhythm we see on our jobs, because needles, twig pieces and grit pack the downspout between visits and the gutter clog builds faster. A home with few or no trees does well if you clean your gutters once a year in late fall, and that is the regular gutter cleaning schedule for a light-tree lot. Gutter guards mean fewer visits, but the surface still needs a clean on each visit. Overflow that lands on the landscape beds next to the foundation is the water that shows up in the basement later, and water that sits in a gutter for weeks can lead to structural damage at the fascia. Once we open the gutter system on your roofline, we tell you which tier your lot actually needs, not a guess from the street.
Here is how the two kinds of lot look on our schedule. One homeowner had no trees over the house and booked once a year in late fall, and for that house that was the whole gutter maintenance plan. Another had heavy cover and was on the three-to-four-month cycle, and the gutters came out clean each time, with the blockage at the same elbows. Both job records are linked from the coverage section below.
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.
We have done Airway Heights gutter cleaning in the neighborhoods where the lots run under heavy cover and the eaves are easy to reach from the ground. Our crew works on residential properties and covers the whole city from our nearest base, and we book as the calendar opens rather than holding slots for a sales pipeline. We are asked about the surrounding areas all the time, so ask on the call and we say straight out whether an address is one we cover. Our gutter cleaning process starts with an estimate by phone or text: stories, approximate size and whether trees hang over the house. A photo of the front of the house helps, and a clean shot from the driveway is enough if it is easy to send.
Our calendar fills in the two busy windows of the year, spring after the seed drop and fall after the leaves, so call early in those months. Our cleanings run out of slots first in those windows, and the gutter cleaning service is worth booking before the first heavy storm. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for the visit. The crew does the exterior work, leaves the yard as clean as it was found, and you get a text with photos of every run once we are done. Keep your gutters clean and working and protect your home from water damage by booking before the rain sets in, and the gutter services we offer are scheduled around your house, not the other way around. Call (866) 435-6328 and we will find the first open date for your house.
The number for cleaning services in Airway Heights comes from the stories and the size of the house, and we give it to you by phone or text. We do not quote a range without those details, because a two-story house with heavy cover can take a different amount of time than one without. Once we have the numbers, the price we quote is the price on your invoice.
On our jobs, most customers book in late spring after the seed and pollen drop, and in late fall after the leaves are down. Waiting past the fall visit on a house that sees snow means we find the ice, sag and rot problems that start in the winter. If your gutters are under trees, the schedule is closer to every three to four months.
Most slots across Airway Heights come up within the week, and we confirm the exact date when you call. If a day opens sooner, we will offer it, but we do not hold same-day slots as a standard.
No. The 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. Every downspout is flushed with water and watched until it runs clean at the bottom. Where a downspout feeds an underground line, we check that water is leaving at the outlet and tell you if it is not. Clearing a buried line is a separate job and is quoted before anyone touches it.
Yes. On our jobs, guards keep leaves out but let needles, seed casings and grit settle on top, and once that mat is wet, the water runs off the front edge. We lift the panels, clean underneath, flush each downspout and reseat the guards, so the cleaning and maintenance happens in one visit.
A clean gutter that still spills water in the rain has a slope, capacity 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 to fix a slope problem.
It should not. If the crew finds something that changes the job, you hear about it and agree to it before they start, not after. 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.
