Gutter cleaning in Jacksonville

What a cleaning includes

• Every foot of gutter cleared by hand into a bucket, not blown into the flower beds
• Each downspout flushed from the top and checked for flow at the bottom
• Debris bagged and taken away
• A ladder check of corners, seams, hangers, drip edge and fascia, with photos of anything that needs attention
• Splash blocks and extensions put back where they belong

The downspout flush is the part that matters most in Jacksonville. A gutter can look clean from the ground while the outlet is packed with a plug of pine straw the shape of the downspout. It holds water in the run all summer, breeds mosquitoes, and overflows at the corner in the first real storm.

When to clean gutters in Jacksonville

Late May, before hurricane season starts on June 1, after the live oaks have finished dropping leaves and catkins in March and April. December or early January, after the pine straw, sweetgum and laurel oak leaves come down, which here runs from late October through December, later than most of the country. Homes under heavy pine benefit from a third visit in late August, before the peak of the storm season, because needles never really stop. With good micro-mesh guards, one visit a year is usually enough. The fall leaf season guide has the tree-by-tree calendar.

Pricing

Cleaning is priced by the house, not by the hour. Single-story homes $120–$200, two-story $180–$300, large or complicated roofs quoted after a look. If we find a repair while we are up there, the cleaning fee comes off the repair. No charge for the photos and no upsell: if the gutters are fine, we say so and leave.

When a cleaning turns into a repair

Roughly one in four cleanings turns something up. In order of how often we see it in Jacksonville: a downspout elbow that has separated at the strap, a corner weeping on the sunny side of the house, spike hangers backed out on a long west-facing run, and soft fascia below a corner that has been overflowing for years. You get the photo and a price on the spot, and the estimate is good for 30 days. Each of these is described with prices on the gutter repair page.

What a cleaning will not fix

A clean gutter that still goes over the edge is undersized, pitched wrong, or short a downspout. We will tell you which, but a cleaning does not change it. And a clean gutter under a big slash pine in Mandarin will be half full again by Christmas. If we are cleaning the same house three times a year and the trees are staying, we will bring up gutter guards, not as a pitch but because the numbers start to favor them around year six.

Doing it yourself

On a single-story home with a solid ladder and someone holding it, go ahead. Gloves, a bucket on a hook, scoop toward the downspout, then flush each outlet from the top with a hose. Stop if the ladder has to lean on the gutter (it will crush it), if you would be reaching more than an arm's length to the side, or if the roofline is two stories up. Gutter cleaning Jacksonville FL homeowners abandon halfway around the house is a call we get every December; the second half costs the same as the whole.

Where we clean

All of Duval County plus Orange Park, Fleming Island, Middleburg, Ponte Vedra, Nocatee, St. Augustine and Fernandina Beach. Gutter cleaning Jacksonville-wide is the same flat price by house size wherever you are inside the 904.