Our own crew cleans gutters in Pullman WA, and every run gets flushed and flow-tested before we pack up. Leaves and grit are hauled off, not blown onto your lawn, and you get photos of every run before we leave.
The price comes from your stories, the size of the house and how much tree cover is over the roof. The number we give on the phone is the number on the invoice. Call (866) 435-6328 and we will ask for those three things.
Most of our Pullman customers book in the spring and fall, and we keep the same crew coming back to the same houses so the gutters stay clean from one of our cleanings to the next.
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 big it is and what is sitting 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. Gutter maintenance quotes work this way on every job, and a clean run goes quickly while a clog eats the visit. Companies that price by the linear foot land in a similar place, but on our jobs the height and the packed load are what change the time on the ladder.
What moves the quote on our Pullman jobs is usually a third story or a roof too steep to walk, a walk-out basement that puts the back run far up, gutters nobody has opened in years and packed with compacted leaf mat, and gutter guards we have to lift and reseat before we can clear underneath. The cleaning and maintenance visit checks gutters and drains every time, and it includes flow testing and debris removal, none of it billed as an extra. Every run is flushed before we leave. Everything we pull out goes away from your home in the truck. If anything changes the job, we raise it before work starts, never on the invoice.
Pullman homeowners ask us why a packed gutter quote runs above a light one, and a homeowner with a heavy leaf load gets the answer on the ladder: packed elbows take longer to clear, and a run that has been flushed is only as good as the water moving through it. Most of our customers here stick with regular gutter cleaning, and that keeps each visit shorter. If you want to get your gutters priced, text a photo of the front and the roofline and we will send you an estimate.
| 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 Pullman customers book twice a year, once in the spring after seed and pollen drop, and once in the fall after the last leaves come down. Pullman's wettest months are January, November and December, so a late September to October fall visit lands before the heavy rainfall starts. On our jobs the spring visit clears the seed casings and pollen paste packed into the elbows, and the fall visit clears the leaves and debris that hold rainwater against the fascia, which keeps water away from the house all winter. Our crew is on the roofline in those windows more than any other time of year, because that is when we can keep your gutters clear before the weather turns. The goal of both visits is a clean trough and open drains before the rain arrives, which is how we protect your home from water damage.
Under heavy tree cover, or near a busy road or construction, we see needles and grit form a buildup in each rain gutter and leave clogged downspouts between visits, so those houses are on every three to four months. Few or no trees, once a year at the fall visit is usually enough. Guards mean less frequent cleaning, but the surface still needs to be kept clean, and on guarded gutters we check the runs underneath as well. Water that spills over the edge soaks the landscape along the foundation.
When we open a gutter in the spring and find a seed mat that has been sitting since the fall, the water has been running behind the gutter rather than through it, which is a drainage problem, and that blockage is what we clear first. That is how a run in the gutter system starts to sag and pull loose over a winter, and a sagging run can lead to structural damage at the fascia and rot in the board behind it. After the first visit we tell you which schedule your lot actually needs and how often to clean your gutters, and we keep a record of it so the next visit starts from what we found last time.
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 clean gutters across Washington from the nearest base, and across Pullman we have worked on homes in several neighborhoods, so the crew knows how the roofs and tree lines in town differ. A roof that looks clean from the street can still hold a full run, so the crew checks each one anyway. On every visit the crew will flush every downspout and check the water flow before leaving, so a stuck run shows up on the ground rather than in a storm. The same quote approach works for residential properties in surrounding areas. Booking for our gutter cleaning service works the same everywhere: you call (866) 435-6328 or text us, we ask for your stories, the approximate size of the house and whether trees hang over the roof, and a photo of the front of the house is helpful if you can send one easily.
The two busiest windows on our calendar are late spring and fall, when most of our customers book, so if you want a spring or fall date, call early. Our gutter cleaning services fill fastest in those two windows, and our cleaning services in Pullman and our other gutter services are booked the same way as anywhere else. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for the visit. Lead time is set by the crew schedule and we give you a date when you call. The gutter cleaning process has the same steps on every visit, from the quote to the photos.
If you are not sure whether your gutters need a visit now or in a few months, tell us what you see from the ground, like water coming over the edge in rain, a run that sits low, a leak at a seam, a twig wedged in an elbow, or a clog you can see from the ground. We will tell you what we would look for on the ladder, and whether it is a clean job or something else. If you manage commercial properties, say so when you call, since a residential and commercial mix changes what we ask for on the quote.
The number comes from the stories, the size of the house and what is in the gutters, and we give it to you by phone or text. Send us those three things and we will quote it.
Pullman homeowners usually book in late spring after the seed drop and again in the fall after the leaves are down. If you wait past the fall visit, the wet leaf mat can sit against the roofline through the wet months and freeze in place. Keeping water moving is how we protect your home from water damage, and booking twice a year is the simplest way to keep your gutters clear.
Slots come up within the week for most houses, and we confirm the date when you call at (866) 435-6328. Same-day depends on the crew schedule that day, so ask when you book.
No. 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. Our gutter services include checking where the water goes. We flush every downspout, so a clog in an elbow gets found before it becomes an overflow, and gutters and downspouts are both flow-tested before the crew leaves. We check that water leaves at the outlet. Clearing a buried drain line is a separate job, and we quote it before anyone touches it.
Yes. On our jobs a guard keeps big leaves out of the rain gutter, but needles, seed casings and grit still settle on top and under the guard, and that mat stops the water from getting in. We lift the panels, clear underneath, check the flow and leave the trough clean.
If a clean gutter still sheets water over the edge in rain, the problem is usually the slope or the downspout size, not what is sitting in the trough. Send us a photo or a short video of it in the rain and we will tell you what it is.
It should not. If the crew finds something that changes the job, you hear about it and agree to it before work starts, not after.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
