Gutter cleaning in Austin

What a cleaning includes

• Every foot of gutter cleared by hand into a bucket, not blown into the beds
• Downspouts flushed from the top and checked for flow at the bottom
• Debris bagged and taken away
• A ladder check of seams, corners, hangers, fascia and the roof edge, with photos of anything that needs attention
• Splash blocks and extensions reset where the mower knocked them out

The flush matters more than the scoop. A downspout plugged with a year of live oak leaves and a tennis ball will back up a spotless gutter, and you'll find out when it overflows onto the front walk in the next storm.

When to clean gutters in Austin

Austin's leaf calendar is backwards from most of the country. Live oaks drop their leaves in March, so the spring clean happens in April, before the May storms. Cedar elms, pecans, red oaks and sycamores drop in November and December, so the second clean is in December, before winter rain and before the March drop starts the cycle again. Homes under heavy pecans along Shoal Creek or Waller Creek sometimes need a third visit after the husks come down. With good guards, one rinse a year is usually enough. The fall leaf-season guide has the tree-by-tree timing.

Pricing

Cleaning is priced by the house, not the hour. Single-story homes run $120–$200, two-story $180–$300, and large or steep-lot homes are quoted after we see them. If we find a repair while we're up there, the cleaning fee comes off the repair price. There's no charge for the inspection photos and no upsell; if the gutters are fine, we say so and leave. Gutter cleaning Austin homeowners schedule twice a year with us is booked from the first visit so nobody has to remember.

Cleaning that turns into a repair

Roughly one in four cleanings turns something up: a corner that's been dripping on the sunny side, a run pitched the wrong way, a downspout elbow that has separated. We show you the photo and a price on the spot, and the estimate is good for 30 days if you'd rather wait. Everything we typically find is priced on the gutter repair page.

What a cleaning won't fix

A clean gutter that still overflows is undersized or pitched wrong, and a cleaning doesn't change that. A clean gutter under a big live oak in Tarrytown or Allandale will be full again by the end of March. If we're cleaning the same house twice a year and the trees aren't going anywhere, we'll suggest gutter guards, because the arithmetic starts to favor them around year six.

Doing it yourself

A single-story home, a good ladder and someone holding it: go ahead. Gloves, a bucket hung from the ladder, and flush each downspout from the top. Stop if the ladder has to rest on the gutter (it will crush it), if you'd be reaching more than an arm's length sideways, or if the house is two stories. On a sloped Hill Country lot the "single story" back of the house is often 16 feet off the ground, and that's where the ladder calls come from. If you searched gutter repair near me Austin after getting halfway around the house, no shame in it; the second half costs the same as the whole.