Roof & Gutter Cleaning Near You
What lands on your roof is what ends up in your gutters. Cleaning one without the other just moves the problem downstream. One trip, one licensed contractor, one invoice.
That photo is a real roof in this service area, and it shows the whole argument. Moss on the shingles, debris working its way down the slope, and the gutter sitting directly underneath collecting all of it. The needles and leaves in your gutters didn't arrive there by air — they landed on the roof first, washed into the valleys, and came down.
The National Roofing Contractors Association names the same three places as the maintenance priority: valleys, gutters and roof drains, together, because that's the path water takes. Clear the gutter and leave the roof loaded and you've bought yourself until the next real rain.
There's a practical side too. Two separate companies means two estimates, two days you need to be home, two invoices — and if water still gets somewhere it shouldn't afterwards, each one can point at the other. Being a licensed General Contractor rather than only a gutter installer means I can look at the roof, the gutters, and the fascia they're mounted to in the same visit, and tell you honestly which of them actually needs work.
Roof debris cleared, then a soft wash or carefully controlled low-pressure clean depending on what your shingles can take. Gutters hand-cleaned rather than blown out, downspouts flushed so nothing is still blocked further down, and the ground left tidy.
While I'm up there I'm also looking — at lifted shingles, at sagging gutter sections, at fascia showing water damage. You get told what I see, including when the answer is that nothing needs doing.
NOAA's figures for the Pierce County station nearest me show about 45 inches of rain across 166 days a year, with roughly 72% of it falling October through March. That's a lot of water moving through a system in the cool half of the year, when nothing dries out between showers.
Add the conifer cover across most of the South Sound and you get year-round needle drop rather than one autumn leaf fall. It's why roofs and gutters here load up faster than the national advice assumes.
Booked separately in this area, the two jobs run roughly $189–225 for gutter cleaning and $300–800 for roof cleaning — call it $500 to $1,000 for both. Companies around Puget Sound quote combined roof-and-gutter work at about $350–700 depending on size, pitch, access and how much buildup there is.
I'd rather be straight about why that's cheaper: it isn't a bundle discount. It's that the drive, the setup, the ladder work and the cleanup only happen once instead of twice. You're not getting a deal so much as not paying for the same overhead twice.
You'll get a real number after I've looked at your roofline, not a guess over the phone. The estimate is free and there's no pressure to book it on the spot. If you want the detail behind those figures, I've written up what gutter cleaning actually costs here and what exterior washing runs in this area.
This is the part a lot of service pages leave out, so here it is plainly.
If your roof is clear and only the gutters are packed — common on homes with deciduous trees nearby but nothing directly overhanging — that's a gutter clean, and you should pay for a gutter clean. See the gutter cleaning service.
If the gutters were done recently and it's the roof that's gone green, that's a roof job on its own. Roof cleaning and treatment covers the method, the moss-versus-algae distinction, and why the black streaking most people call about is cosmetic.
If the roof is near the end of its life — asphalt shingles run about 20 years — cleaning it is money spent on something that's leaving. I'll say so rather than take the booking.
The combined job is for the homes it genuinely suits: under conifers, with the roof feeding the gutters faster than they can clear, where doing one without the other means you're back to it in a few months.
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Since I'm already at the roofline, it's a sensible time to look at the fascia — the board your gutters are mounted to, and the first thing to rot when water has been overflowing. If overflowing gutters are the recurring problem rather than a one-off, leaf guards may be worth a conversation. And for the wider routine, here's what roof maintenance actually involves around here.
Why book roof and gutter cleaning together? Because it's the same debris. Needles and leaves land on the roof, wash down into the valleys, and end up in the gutter. Clean one and not the other and the next good rain moves the rest of it downstream. Doing both in one visit also means one trip, one estimate and one invoice instead of two companies on two different days.
Is it cheaper than booking the two separately? Usually, yes. Booked apart in this area, gutter cleaning runs about $189-225 and roof cleaning $300-800, so roughly $500-1,000 together. Local companies quote combined roof-and-gutter work at around $350-700. The saving isn't a discount, it's that the setup, the ladder work and the trip only happen once.
Do I actually need both done? Not always, and I'll tell you if you don't. If the roof is clear and only the gutters are packed, that's a gutter clean and you should pay for a gutter clean. The combined job is for homes under conifers where the roof is feeding the gutters faster than they can cope.
Will pressure washing the roof damage my shingles? Not the way I do it. High pressure strips the protective granules off asphalt shingles, which is why it has a bad reputation. I use a soft wash, or carefully controlled low pressure, depending on what the roof can take.
How often should this be done in the South Sound? Most homes here do well on once or twice a year. Under heavy fir cover it's often more, because needle drop isn't seasonal the way leaf drop is — it keeps coming all year.
Do you clean the downspouts too? Yes. A clogged downspout defeats the point of clearing the gutter above it, so they get flushed as part of the job rather than charged as an extra.
Are you insured, and who actually shows up? Licensed General Contractor, bonded and insured — UBI No. 604 801 940, L&I License No. ARSPESC748MF. On most jobs the person who gives you the estimate is the person who does the work, which is me.
Free estimate, no obligation, and an honest answer about whether you need both.