Cleared by hand. Not blown around your yard.
Every run emptied by hand, every downspout flushed and proven flowing, every bag of debris off your property. You get roof-level photos when we're done.
What a cleaning actually includes
There's a version of this job that takes twenty minutes with a leaf blower and leaves your beds covered in muck and your downspouts still packed. That's not what we sell.
Gloved, bucket in hand, working the full length of every gutter, including the low-visibility back runs and second-story dormers most crews skip.
A clear gutter feeding a blocked elbow is still a wet foundation. Each downspout gets hosed until water runs free at the bottom, including buried lines to the street or drywell.
Ten pounds of wet oak sludge leaves with us. Beds, walks, and patio get rinsed before we pack up.
Loose hangers, separated joints, rot at the fascia, pitch running the wrong way, flagged with a photo. We note anything that needs a specialist and tell you straight.
Before and after, every elevation, texted to you the same day. You never have to take our word for it or climb a ladder to check.
Two windows a year. Miss them and you pay for it.
Fairfield County's tree mix, white oak, sugar maple, hemlock, eastern white pine, fills gutters on a predictable calendar. Here's the one we book against.
Spring clean
Oak tassels, maple samaras, and pollen mat into a felt layer that holds water all summer. This is the cleaning most homeowners skip and shouldn't.
Storm season checks
Hurricane-season downpours and coastal wind find every weak hanger and blocked elbow. Worth a mid-season look on shoreline homes.
Fall clean, the critical one
After the oaks finally let go, before the first hard freeze. Debris left in a gutter in December is the ice dam you fight in January.
Thaw response
Ice-damaged runs, torn hangers, downspouts split by freeze. We work through the winter when it's safe to be on a ladder.
Prefer to plan ahead? Join the fall waitlist , we price from your address within one business day and open schedule as insured crew capacity is confirmed.
A clogged gutter is never just a clogged gutter
Four failures we get called about every year, all of them cheaper to prevent than to fix.
Fascia & soffit rot
Water standing in a full gutter wicks backward into the fascia board. By the time paint bubbles, the wood behind it is gone, and the gutter has nothing sound to hang from.
Ice dams
Debris holds meltwater at the roof edge where it refreezes. The dam grows, backs water up under the shingles, and shows up as a ceiling stain in February.
Foundation water
An overflowing gutter dumps hundreds of gallons at the foundation in one storm. On the county's clay-heavy soil that's a wet basement, then a sump pump, then a footing drain.
Landscape washout
Sheeting water strips mulch, carves channels through beds, and undermines walkways and patio pavers set along the drip line.
Priced on your roofline, not a guess over the phone
Four things move the number, and we can read all of them off aerial imagery before we ever pull into your driveway:
The quote you get is the price you pay. If we open something up and find a problem, you get a photo and a call before any extra work happens, never a surprise line on the invoice. Our full cleaning rates and worked examples are published, down to the price per linear foot.
We read linear footage, story count, pitch, and access straight from aerial imagery of your address, then price it. That is why most homes never need an on-site visit, and why the number you get is the number you pay.
Ninety minutes on a typical colonial
- 010:00Walk the perimeter
Note every downspout, problem run, and where ladders can safely land.
- 020:10Hand-clear every run
Bucket work, elevation by elevation, back of the house first.
- 030:55Flush and prove flow
Hose from the far end of each run; confirm water at every outlet.
- 041:15Clean up the ground
Debris bagged and loaded, beds and hardscape rinsed down.
- 051:30Photos and findings
Before/after set texted over, with anything we'd keep an eye on.
What homeowners ask us
No. It's all exterior work. We text on arrival and send photos when we're finished.
Only when it’s safe and appropriate. Slate, cedar shake, and steep pitches get worked from ladders, never walked.
Included. Awkward-access runs are exactly the ones that get skipped and then fail — we plan for them in the quote.
We flush and test buried lines as part of the visit. If one's blocked or collapsed we'll show you the photo and talk options.
Yes. If you already have guards, we remove them as needed, clean underneath, water-test the run, and put your existing guards back. We do not sell or install gutter guard systems.
We move you, usually within a couple of days. Wet ladders aren't worth it, and light rain is actually a great time to spot overflow points.
Four things set the number: total linear feet of gutter, how many stories and how steep the roof is, how hard the runs are to reach, and how long it has been since the last cleaning. We read the first three off aerial imagery of your address, so most homes get a firm price without a site visit — and the quote you get is the price you pay.
Book your spring or fall cleaning.
Send your address and we'll have a real number back to you within one business day.