Our own crew cleans gutters in Birch Bay WA, and every downspout is flushed and flow-tested before we leave, so the water runs clean out the bottom. Everything we pull out is hauled off the property, and you get photos of every run before the truck pulls away. The price comes from your stories, the size of the house and how much tree cover sits over it, and the number we give on the phone is the number on the invoice. Most of our Birch Bay customers book in spring and fall, when the seed and leaf load is heaviest. Call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the front of the house and we will give you a written estimate.
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, how much gutter run there is and what is sitting in the gutters. Get your gutters quoted over the phone or by text from those three things, and the number we quote is the number we charge. Some companies price by the linear foot, which lands in a similar place once you run the numbers on a real house.
On our jobs the things that move the quote are consistent. A third story or a steep roofline we cannot walk means boom or scissor lift time. A walk-out basement or a sloped lot raises the effective height of the eave, so the back run sits farther off the ground than it looks. Gutters nobody has opened in years come out packed with compacted debris, sometimes with a leak hidden behind it, and they take longer to get clean. Guards we have to lift and reseat add time on both ends, and a twig jammed in a downspout elbow adds more. Downspout flushing, flow testing and debris removal are included in the quote and are never billed as extras. If anything we find changes the job, you hear about it before work starts, not on the invoice.
Here is what a clean Birch Bay job looks like on the ground. We clean on houses where the trees are a few feet from the eave and houses with nothing overhead, and the difference shows up in how fast the downspouts plug. Ask us about cleaning services in Birch Bay WA and we walk through the gutter cleaning process with you on the phone, which is the fastest way to see what drives your number. A photo of the front of the house sent by text helps us quote accurately, and it takes less time than a short phone call.
Our crews do this as part of regular gutter maintenance, and most of our cleanings in Birch Bay come from homeowners who call first. Each homeowner wants a clear answer about the job before anyone climbs. Call (866) 435-6328 and tell us your stories and house size, or text a photo of the front of the house. We will give you the number and a written estimate, and we keep to it.
| 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 Birch Bay customers book twice a year, once in late spring after the seed and pollen drop, and once in November to early December after the last leaves come down. Across Washington, atmospheric rivers and Pacific fronts drive the heavy rainfall, and in Birch Bay the wettest months are January, November and December, with 41.8 inches of precipitation a year. In late spring the seeds, seed casings and pollen paste pack the downspout elbows. In fall it is the leaf load, and the wet mat it turns into before the rain sets in. A clean run going into the wet months is what keeps rainwater moving. A blockage in a run also leaks at the seams, and on houses that skipped the fall visit we find runs that have pulled loose by late winter, because the water had nowhere to go, and the fascia behind them has started to rot.
Under heavy tree cover, we see the gutter system clog faster than anywhere else on our route, and those customers are on a schedule of every three to four months. Needles and grit buildup between visits, and clogged downspouts stop the rain gutter from moving water away from your home, so the drainage at the foundation takes the overflow. Lots with few or no trees do fine on a once-a-year visit in late fall, and a clean gutter going into winter is all they need. Near a busy road, a construction site or a fresh landscape job, the grit settles fast and the same three-to-four-month schedule applies. Gutter guards stretch the interval, but the surface still needs clearing, and we check that every time we are up there.
Gutter cleaning services are most in demand in those two windows, when the leaves and debris from the trees in surrounding areas pile up. Structural damage from a sag in the run usually starts in the same season the clog does, so the timing matters more than people think. Flush the downspouts and keep the water moving; that is how you protect your home from water damage. We also keep the same cleaning and maintenance schedule for commercial properties on our route, because the rules that water follows are identical whether the building is a house or an office.
After the first visit we tell you which tier your lot actually needs. Regular gutter cleaning on that schedule is the simplest way to keep runs from pulling loose, so clean your gutters on time and keep your gutters clear between visits. Call (866) 435-6328 to book the next visit, and we will confirm the date when you call.
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 cleans gutters across Birch Bay and works out of the nearest base to keep the travel short. Our gutter services in Birch Bay WA start with a quote by phone or text from your stories, your house size and how much tree cover is over the house, and a photo of the front of the house helps if it is easy to send. Booking a gutter cleaning service puts most Birch Bay homes on the calendar within the week, and we confirm the date when you call. The two busiest windows are spring and fall, so if you want a slot in either one, book early. Before we leave we check the water flow through every run, and the ground is clean, with everything bagged and hauled off.
We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for exterior work. Our crew does not come inside, and the photos of every run arrive on your phone when the job is done. We take on residential and commercial work, and residential properties get the same photo report as commercial ones, so if you run a building as well as a house, one call covers both. Call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the front of the house to start, and ask for a written estimate if you want the number in writing before you book a date.
The number comes from the stories, the house size and what is in the gutters, and we give it by phone or text. Two stories is a standard lift job on most houses, and we confirm the figure before we schedule.
Our customers here book in late spring and late fall, when the seed drop and the leaf load are heaviest. If you wait past those windows on a house with trees, the clog is usually well set by the time we arrive, and the job takes longer.
Most of our slots come up within the week, and we confirm the date when you call. Same-day depends on the calendar that week, so ask when you book.
No, you do not need to be home. 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 a buried drain line is a separate job, and we quote it before anyone touches it.
Yes. On our jobs guards hold back the leaves, but the needles, seed casings and grit sit on top of the guard and mat down. We clear the surface, keep the guard clean underneath, and check the water flow, so the guard does its job.
If a clean gutter still sends rainwater over the edge in rain, the problem is slope or downspout size, not what's sitting in the trough. Send us a photo or a short video in the rain, and we tell you what it is. We do not sell a second cleaning for a slope problem.
The price stays where we quoted it unless the crew finds something that changes the job. If it does, you hear about it and agree to it before work starts, never after.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
