Our own crew cleans gutters in Artondale, every run flushed and flow-tested, the leaves hauled off, and photos of the work 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 customers book in spring and fall, and we have been doing that work on these streets for years.
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 in the gutters; we quote it over the phone or by text from those three things, and the number we quote is the number we charge. Other cleaning services often price by the linear foot, which lands in a similar place, though we do not work that way. What moves a quote on our jobs is what the crew finds when it gets up the ladder: a third story or a roof too steep to walk, a walk-out basement that puts the back run far above the grade, and a rain gutter nobody has opened in years, with compacted muck packed into the trough.
Guards that we have to lift and reseat add time, and so does a blockage that sits deep in the run, where the crew has to work it out by hand. Flushing, flow testing, and haul-off of leaves and debris are included and never billed as extras. A clean trough and water flow that runs clear at the outlet is what the price buys. If anything changes the job, you hear about it before work starts, never on the invoice.
Heavy leaf load and long runs of gutter on a bigger house take the longest. On most Artondale homes the clog is in the same two or three spots, at the corners and where the outlet feeds the drainage line, so we check those first, leave them clean, and tell you what we found.
The experience on our jobs is what drives most of the quotes we write here. A customer with a two-story house and a moderate tree canopy booked us after the gutters overflowed in heavy rainfall and water started running behind the fascia; the crew found a leaf and seed buildup, clogged downspouts, and a run that had started to sag. We cleared it, flushed the run, and told the customer that a sag left alone can turn into structural damage. That is the kind of visit we run on every job, whatever the house looks like.
If you are not sure what your gutters need, call (866) 435-6328 or text us a photo of the front of the house and tell us the stories and roughly how big it is. We will give you a number from that, and it will be the number we charge.
| 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 homeowners here book twice a year, in spring and fall: once in spring after the seed and pollen drop, and once in fall after the last leaves come down. When we open a gutter here in spring we find seeds and pollen paste packed into the elbows, which makes a clog, and rainwater backs up behind it. Our fall visit runs late November to December, when the wet leaf mat is on the trough, and on houses that skipped it we find runs that have sagged or pulled loose by midwinter.
Freezing weather changes the fall job, so clean your gutters before the first ice. When the first ice comes, we find ice dams forming along the roofline at the eave, and a gutter full of frozen leaves cannot drain. That is why the fall visit matters more in cold months than it does in the rest of the year.
Heavy tree cover is the other thing that changes the schedule. Under big trees, needles, twig fragments and grit pack the outlets between visits, so those customers book regular gutter cleaning every three to four months to keep the troughs clean. A house with few or no trees does fine with one cleaning a year, in late fall. Houses with gutter guards still need gutter maintenance, which means keeping the surface clean, and we do that less often than on an open gutter but not never.
We clean residential and commercial properties on these tiers. Near a busy road or a construction site the grit builds up faster on both residential properties and commercial properties, and the same tier applies. Ask us about your lot in Artondale WA on the phone and we will say which schedule it needs and give you an estimate. After the first visit we tell you which tier your lot actually needs, based on what we found in the runs.
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.
Artondale gutter cleaning services are the core of our gutter services, run by our own crew across Artondale and the surrounding areas. Booking works by phone at (866) 435-6328 or by text: tell us the stories, roughly how big the house is, and whether trees hang over the roof, and send a photo of the house front if that is easy. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for the work. The two busy windows of the year are spring and fall, so book early if you want a date in those months.
Gutters and downspouts are the work this gutter cleaning service covers, nothing else on the house, and the crew is on the ladder for every visit. We also handle debris removal on the same visit, and the yard is left clean. If we find something that is not a cleaning problem, a loose hanger or a seam with a leak, we photograph it and report it to you, and we do not sell a repair on the spot.
Cleanings on the same house every year help protect your home from water damage, because the drainage keeps water away from your home. When you keep your gutters clean on schedule, the water stays moving off the roof and away from the foundation. Our crew is here to make that routine simple for every homeowner we serve.
The number 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 here because the same house can cost differently depending on what is in the gutters. The number we quote is the number on the invoice.
Most of our customers book in late spring and late fall. If the gutters wait past the first hard freeze, the fall cleaning gets harder, and ice dams and rot are what we find when we open them.
Most slots come up within the week. To get your gutters on the calendar, call or text, and we confirm the date when you do. We do not promise same-day service.
No, you do not need to be home. The gutter cleaning process happens outside, and our crew does not come inside. Photos of every run go to your phone before the truck leaves, and the site is left clean. Leave the side gate unlocked and keep pets inside while the ladders are up.
Yes, we flush every downspout, check where it drains onto the landscape, and leave the outlet clean. If a line goes underground and needs clearing beyond the outlet, we quote that separately and tell you before we touch it.
Yes. Under guards we still find needles, seed casings and grit sitting on top of the guard, and once that mat is wet, water runs off the front edge. We clear the surface and check the runs as part of cleaning and maintenance.
A gutter system that is clean and still overflows has a slope, capacity or outlet problem, not a cleaning problem. Send us a photo or a short video in the rain and we will tell you what it is.
It should not. Anything that changes the job is raised before work starts, and you agree to it before we begin.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
