Our own crew cleans gutters across woodinville, every run flushed and flow-tested, everything pulled out hauled away, and photos of each section before we leave, so every clean is on record. The price comes from the number of stories, the size of the house and how much tree cover sits over the roof, and the number we give you on the phone is the number on the invoice. Most of our Woodinville customers book in spring and fall, and we work through both with the same crew.
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 sitting in the gutters. A homeowner who calls gets that quote over the phone or by text, built from those three things, and the number we quote is the number we charge. Companies that price gutter cleaning services by the linear foot land in a similar place per foot, but on a house with a lot of turns and separate runs the per-foot figure rarely tells you what the crew will actually spend. If you plan to clean your gutters twice a year, say so on the call so the quote covers both visits. Call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the roofline and we will give you a written estimate.
On our jobs the things that move a quote are consistent. A third story or a roof too steep to walk takes longer and needs a boom or scissor lift. A walk-out basement or a sloped landscape raises the effective height of the back run. A gutter system nobody has opened in years comes out packed solid with compacted leaves and grit, and that is a longer clean. Guards we have to lift and reseat add time on the way up and on the way down. A clogged run and a dirty trough both add time on the job, and we flush every downspout and check the flow on every visit. Flushing, flow testing and debris removal are included and are never billed as extras. If anything changes the job, you hear it before work starts, never on the invoice.
Here is what we find on Woodinville homes that have gone a while between visits. The gutter is full of seed casings and wet leaves, a blockage has formed at the first elbow of the pipe, often a twig wedged in with everything else, and water has been sitting in the trough long enough that the run has started to sag. Once the clog is cleared, the water flow comes back and rainwater runs out the bottom again, and the drainage behind the fascia starts working. That is the difference between a quick clean and a full day. Regular gutter cleaning keeps the job short, and the cleanings you book on schedule keep the buildup from ever reaching the point where a leak shows up inside. Anyone who books a spring and fall visit usually sees the same crew both times, which is part of why these visits go fast, and the crew knows where the last clean left off.
Most of the customers we serve here are residential, but the same approach applies to both residential and commercial properties, and the crew uses the same photo log on both. Whether it is a single-family house or a multi-unit building, we flush every run and check that each run carries water away from the foundation. For residential properties the quote usually comes from a short phone call, and for larger buildings it comes from a walk-around on a scheduled date.
| 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 Woodinville customers book twice a year, once after the seed and pollen drop in late spring and again after the last leaves come down in late fall. The state-wide rhythm is similar, but on our Woodinville jobs the timing is what we see when the work actually happens. When we open the gutters and downspouts here in spring we find seeds, seed casings and pollen paste packed into the elbows, and the first clog is usually there, so the spring clean is where we find it. In fall it is the wet leaf mat and whatever else has washed into the elbows, and where the house freezes at night the first ice shows up at the eave, with runs starting to pull loose on houses that skipped the fall visit.
Under heavy tree cover, every three to four months is the schedule that helps you keep your gutters clear, because needles and grit pack the elbows between visits. Near a busy road or active construction the same interval applies. Houses with few or no trees over the roof are usually fine on a once-a-year visit in late fall. Gutters with guards still need the surface cleared, and we usually see them on a slightly longer interval, though the guard still needs to be lifted to check what is underneath. Our crew can tell you which tier your lot needs during the first visit, once we have looked at the roofline and the trees around it.
After that first visit we tell you which tier your lot actually needs, and we keep the schedule from there. A schedule kept on time helps protect your home from water damage, since a full gutter is what starts the rot. If your gutters have started to overflow between visits, that is a sign to move the next visit up rather than wait. For a quote on the first visit, call (866) 435-6328 and we will set a date that fits the season.
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 covers Woodinville and surrounding areas from the nearest base, and the cleaning services in woodinville work the same on a split-level as on a two-story house, with no minimum on the number of stories. Booking for our gutter services starts with a quote by phone or text: tell us the number of stories, the rough square footage, and whether trees hang over the roof or the house has gutter guards, and send a photo of the house front if that is easy. Lead time depends on the season, and we confirm a date when you call. The two busiest windows of the year are late spring and late fall, when the seed drop and the leaf drop bring the most calls, so booking early in those months is the simplest way to get your gutters on the schedule you want.
We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for an exterior clean. The crew checks in when they are on the way and sends photos of every run before the truck leaves. Every run we flush has to carry water away from your home, and if one does not, you hear it from the crew before we leave. For a Woodinville gutter cleaning process that starts with a quote and ends with a photo log, the booking is short, and most of the questions get answered on the first call. If a visit runs into something we did not expect, such as a clog we cannot clear from the ladder, we tell you before we go further. Heavy rainfall is when many customers call, and that is also when we see the most overflow, so if your gutters have been running over in storms, book the next visit as soon as you can and keep up with the cleaning and maintenance between visits. A clean only holds as long as the schedule behind it, and gutter maintenance is what keeps a clog from coming back.
The number comes from the stories and the size of the house, and we give it over the phone or by text. We do not quote a figure in this FAQ because the house decides it. Call (866) 435-6328 and we will give you the number before we book, for any house in woodinville wa we serve.
Most of our customers book in late spring and again in late fall. When we wait too long in spring, the seed and pollen paste are packed in the elbows, and in fall the wet leaf mat is what we find, sometimes with the first ice at the eave. We can set the date when you call.
Most slots come up within the week, and we confirm the exact date when you call, so ask us when you book. We do not promise same-day service unless we have an open slot that day.
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, we flush all of it and check that the water leaves the outlet. Where the water stops, the usual cause is clogged downspouts, and if a run feeds an underground line we check the outlet and tell you if water is not leaving. Clearing a buried line is a separate job and is quoted before anyone touches it.
Yes. On our jobs guards keep out most of the leaves and debris but let the needles, seed casings and grit settle on top, and that mat is what stops the water getting in. We clean the surface first, then flush the runs and reseat the guards.
A rain gutter that is clean and still spills over the edge in rain has a slope or downspout-size problem, not a debris problem. Water that keeps running over the edge is how structural damage starts at the fascia. Send us a photo or a short video taken in the rain and we will tell you what it is. We do not sell a second cleaning for a slope problem.
It should not. The number we give you on the phone is the number on the invoice. If the crew finds something that changes the job, you hear about it and agree to it before they start.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
