Gutter Brightening

Three different jobs on the same piece of metal. Gutter cleaning is the outside face of the gutter and downspout. It comes with a house wash or a siding cleaning at no extra cost. A gutter clean-out is interior work: removing packed leaves, shingle grit and sediment from inside the trough, then flushing each downspout to confirm water runs through it. It is included free with roof soft washing, because roof work puts debris into the gutters by design. It is also sold on its own, priced per linear foot, with no other service required. Gutter brightening removes the dark vertical striping bonded to the front face, often called tiger striping. That is oxidized aluminum and road film chemically stuck to the finish, so it needs a dedicated product and will not come off with house wash solution. It is never included in a house wash. A quick way to tell what you need: if the inside is full, you need a clean-out. If the outside is streaked dark, you need brightening. If neither, the cleaning that comes with your wash is enough. The gutter clean-out is free with a roof soft wash and 25% off added to a house wash, and the rate is published on the [pricing page](/pricing). More on what the gutters do to a roof in [black streaks, moss and lichen](/learn/roof-moss-lichen-algae-damage). Why a wash leaves chalky siding chalky-looking, and what actually improves it, is explained in [why a wash will not bring the color back](/learn/why-a-house-wash-will-not-fix-chalky-siding). You can get your own number right now: the [instant estimate](/instant-estimate) prices your property from the address in about two minutes, and what you accept is what you pay.

No. One price covers the house at that size, whether it is one story or two. A 1,200 square foot home is $299 either way, and a 2,000 square foot home is $349 either way — you read your price off the table without doing arithmetic or wondering which column applies to you. A second story does take longer and needs more reach, and that is already built into the size-based price rather than added on top. Genuine difficulty does carry an add-on: a third story, or an elevation that cannot be worked from the ground. Anything like that is identified while the property is walked and stated before the work starts, never added afterward. You can get your own number right now: the [instant estimate](/instant-estimate) prices your property from the address in about two minutes, and what you accept is what you pay.

It depends which of the three you mean, and they get mixed up constantly. Gutter cleaning is the outside face of the gutter and downspout — what you see from the street. That is part of every house wash and siding cleaning at no extra charge. A gutter clean-out is the inside: the packed leaves and shingle grit in the trough, and every downspout flushed to confirm it actually runs. This is a real service with a real per-linear-foot price, and it is free with roof soft washing. Not discounted — included. We cannot rinse a roof properly if the gutters will not drain, and leaving the debris up there would only wash it back over everything we just cleaned, so it is part of the job rather than an add-on to it. If you were going to book a clean-out anyway and the roof is anywhere near due, booking the roof gets you both for the price of the roof. You can also book a gutter clean-out on its own, with no washing service attached. That is the standalone service and it is priced per linear foot. Gutter brightening is the third and it is never included in anything. The dark vertical tiger striping on the front face is oxidized aluminum and road film bonded to the finish, not dirt sitting on top of it. It needs its own product, no house wash removes it, and it is usually added after a house wash while the crew is already on site. The gutter clean-out is free with a roof soft wash and 25% off added to a house wash, and the rate is published on the [pricing page](/pricing). More on what the gutters do to a roof in [black streaks, moss and lichen](/learn/roof-moss-lichen-algae-damage). You can get your own number right now: the [instant estimate](/instant-estimate) prices your property from the address in about two minutes, and what you accept is what you pay.

On a one-story home a standard house wash covers the siding, soffit and fascia, and cleaning of the outside face of the gutters and downspouts, done as a low-pressure soft wash matched to vinyl, aluminum, or stone-veneer surfaces. Most North Canton homes we work on pair that with roof soft washing for shingle algae and with driveway or walkway cleaning, since the front approach is what shows from the street. The gutter clean-out is free with a roof soft wash and 25% off added to a house wash, and the rate is published on the [pricing page](/pricing). More on what the gutters do to a roof in [black streaks, moss and lichen](/learn/roof-moss-lichen-algae-damage).

One visit, two methods. Houses here were built from 1991 onward and mixed elevations are the norm rather than the exception — brick running into stucco running into a frame gable on the same wall. Those surfaces do not take the same solution or the same pressure, and stucco in particular will hold a cleaning solution far longer than brick will, so a single blanket approach either undercleans the brick or overworks the stucco. Each material on the elevation gets its own method and its own line, because a number that does not name the materials cannot account for the difference between them. You can get your own number right now: the [instant estimate](/instant-estimate) prices your property from the address in about two minutes, and what you accept is what you pay.

Mud dauber nests and the staining under them come off as part of a house wash, and clearing them before they build up is one of the practical reasons to wash annually. Live stinging insects are a different matter — an active wasp or hornet nest under a soffit or in a gable vent needs to be dealt with before anyone works at height near it, and that is pest control rather than cleaning. It is worth flagging any nest you know about ahead of the visit so it is handled first rather than discovered from a ladder. The gutter clean-out is free with a roof soft wash and 25% off added to a house wash, and the rate is published on the [pricing page](/pricing). More on what the gutters do to a roof in [black streaks, moss and lichen](/learn/roof-moss-lichen-algae-damage).

Soft washing uses low pressure and surface-appropriate cleaning solutions for delicate materials such as many roofs and siding types. Pressure washing is generally reserved for durable hard surfaces, such as applicable concrete. SurfaceWorks ProWash selects the method based on the material, condition, and project scope.

No — you can book the gutter clean-out on its own, with no washing service attached. That is a standalone service priced per linear foot. It is worth doing on its own schedule too. Packed debris holds water against the fascia board, and a trough heavy with wet leaves is what pulls fasteners out of the fascia over a winter. One thing worth knowing before you book it alone: roof soft washing includes the clean-out at no additional charge. If the roof is anywhere near due, the roof wash and the clean-out together cost the same as the roof wash by itself. If the roof is genuinely fine, book the clean-out on its own and we will do exactly that. If the outside face of the gutter is also chalky or streaked dark, that is a third thing again — gutter brightening — and it is worth looking at the front face from the driveway before deciding what to book. The gutter clean-out is free with a roof soft wash and 25% off added to a house wash, and the rate is published on the [pricing page](/pricing). More on what the gutters do to a roof in [black streaks, moss and lichen](/learn/roof-moss-lichen-algae-damage). You can get your own number right now: the [instant estimate](/instant-estimate) prices your property from the address in about two minutes, and what you accept is what you pay.

Yes, on two different timelines, because roof work does not finish on the same clock as everything else. On any surface other than a roof: if you are not satisfied with something we cleaned, tell us within 14 days and we will come back and re-clean it at no charge. Fourteen days rather than a week on purpose — most people do not look properly until the following weekend, and a rain in between makes anyone doubt the result. On roof soft washing: 60 days. A roof keeps improving for four to six weeks after the visit as the treated moss and lichen lose their grip and release with rain and weather. Judging a roof at two weeks would be judging it half-finished. If it has not come around within 60 days, it gets re-treated at no charge. What the guarantee does not cover is anything cleaning cannot correct: oxidized or chalked finishes, concrete scaling where the top layer has already broken loose, failed paint or stain, and rust with an active source still feeding it. Those get identified on the walkthrough and stated before any work begins, so nothing on that list is a surprise afterward. Separately from all of that, there is a warranty. The guarantee above asks whether we did the job right; the warranty asks whether it stayed clean. Black streaking on a roof we soft washed is warranted for two years — three if you are on the maintenance plan — and washed siding can carry a twelve-month regrowth warranty, included free with the plan. Two conditions are excluded from the roof warranty and we point them out before the work rather than after: heavy overhanging tree cover, and areas where water pools rather than draining. Both re-seed growth continuously no matter how well a roof was cleaned. What the roof warranty covers, and how it compares to the five-year ones you will see online, is set out in [how to read a roof cleaning warranty](/learn/roof-cleaning-warranty-what-five-year-really-means). Roof pricing is on the [roof soft washing page](/services/roof-soft-washing). You can get your own number right now: the [instant estimate](/instant-estimate) prices your property from the address in about two minutes, and what you accept is what you pay.

Yes, and it is the sensible time to do it since everything has to come off the patio anyway. Patio and outdoor furniture and equipment cleaning is $79 and covers furniture, swing sets, grills and similar outdoor items, cleaned at a pressure and solution matched to the material. Cushions and fabric are not included — this is hard surfaces: frames, tables, slides, plastic and metal. You can get your own number right now: the [instant estimate](/instant-estimate) prices your property from the address in about two minutes, and what you accept is what you pay.