Published figures from Charlotte gutter companies, laid out job by job, next to the fees the city and the state actually set. Nothing here is a quote and nothing here is an offer.
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Or call (980) 907-8311Charlotte bills every house monthly by impervious area: $10.32 under 2,000 square feet, $14.78 from 2,000 to 2,999, $21.43 from 3,000 to 4,999 and $35.48 above that, effective July 1, 2026.
North Carolina requires a general contractor license where the cost of the undertaking is forty thousand dollars or more, which is why cleaning and most repairs sit outside it while large replacement projects can cross it.
The state licensing board caps a Limited license at $750,000 per project, an Intermediate license at $1,500,000, and puts no restriction on an Unlimited license, so the class a contractor holds tells you the size of work they can legally sign.
Every range below is what companies working in Charlotte publish for that job, gathered from the numbered price pages under the table. It spans what several of them show, so the figures move with the specifics of the property and with who does the work. Nothing here is a quote, and no business has set a price on this page. A real number comes from whoever looks at the job.
| The job | Range seen | Billed as | What moves it |
|---|---|---|---|
| One-story ranch cleared, roughly 150 to 180 feet of gutter | $149–$349123 | flat, 150 to 180 linear feet, single story | Pine needles packed hard into a run take far longer than loose oak leaf litter. |
| Two-story house cleared, roughly 180 to 220 feet of gutter | $125–$499245 | flat, 180 to 220 linear feet, two stories | Ladder standoffs, roof anchors, and a second-story rear elevation over a deck are what widen this band. |
| Multi-wing or three-story home with hard roof access | $399–$1,000256 | flat, 220 to 280 linear feet | Steep slate-look shingle, dormer valleys, and copper runs that cannot be walked push crews to rope work. |
| Sagging or storm-pulled run rehung and resealed | $85–$60078 | flat per repair | An end cap reseal is the floor; a pulled 40-foot run replaced outright sits near the ceiling. |
| Micro-mesh guards installed over about 150 feet | $1,350–$3,375591011 | per 150 linear feet installed | Screen mesh anchors the low end and surgical-grade stainless the high end, before any second-story surcharge. |
| Whole gutter system replaced, about 150 feet with downspouts | $1,000–$4,0008121314 | flat, about 150 linear feet including downspouts | Six-inch profile, oversized downspouts, fascia rot, and copper are the four things that lift this. |
Prices each of these companies publishes on its own site, read on the date shown in each listing. A published price can change without notice, so treat a number here as what was posted rather than what you will be told today.
Gutter cleaning is priced on three things, and none of them is how dirty the gutters look from the driveway. The first is linear feet of trough. A compact ranch carries perhaps 150 feet; a rambling multi-wing house in Myers Park can carry 280 or more, and every foot has to be reached, cleared, and flushed. The second is height and footing. A rear elevation two stories up over a sloped yard or a deck means standoffs, roof anchors, or a lift, and the labor time doubles before a single handful of debris moves. The third is what came out of the trough. Pine needle mat left through two seasons has effectively composted into the gutter and comes out in wet slabs, which is why several local companies post a surcharge for gutters left packed solid.
Downspouts are the hidden variable. A crew can clear every trough and leave the system no more functional than before, because the blockage sits in an elbow or in the drain line at grade. Any figure worth comparing includes flushing every downspout.
This city is roughly half covered by tree canopy, and it is a mixed canopy: willow oak and water oak dropping leaves and tassels in spring and fall, loblolly pine dropping needles nearly year-round. That is why local pricing quietly assumes more visits per year than the standard twice-annual advice. A house under mature pines cleaned in November is often blocked again by February.
Clay soil closes the loop. Piedmont red clay drains slowly, so water that overshoots a blocked gutter sits against the foundation instead of moving away. The City of Charlotte storm water fees schedule prices this problem at the household level, billing monthly by impervious area: $10.32 for a house under 2,000 square feet of hard surface, rising through $14.78 and $21.43 to $35.48 for the largest. That fee is not something a cleaning changes, but it is the city stating in dollars that where roof water goes is a public matter, not a cosmetic one.
The table separates them deliberately, because the most common billing surprise in this trade is a cleaning visit that turns into a repair conversation on the ladder. Sagging runs, pulled hangers, failed end caps, and separated miters are all cheap relative to replacement, and posted repair prices in this market start under $100 for a reseal. Replacement is a different order of magnitude: local per-foot pricing for seamless aluminum runs from about $4 to $13 depending on profile and height, which is why a 150-foot house lands between roughly $1,000 and $4,000 with downspouts. One company here posts a mobilization minimum for bringing the gutter machine out at all, so a small partial run is not priced proportionally.
Guards deserve their own line because they are the biggest ticket most homeowners are shown. Local guard pricing is posted per linear foot, from a few dollars for basic screen to the high teens for stainless micro-mesh, which on 150 feet separates a few hundred dollars from well over three thousand. Multiply per-foot by measured footage first, and know that no guard ends maintenance under pine.
North Carolina requires a general contractor license where the cost of the undertaking is $40,000 or more. Cleaning never reaches that, and neither does an ordinary replacement, so the licensing question in this trade is really an insurance question. Ask for a certificate of general liability and, because this is ladder and roof work, workers compensation coverage that names the crew on the property. If a full exterior project ever does cross the state threshold, the licensing board caps a Limited license at $750,000 per project and an Intermediate license at $1,500,000, so the class held tells you the scale of work a contractor may legally sign.
It states the measured footage or story count assumed, confirms downspout flushing, says whether debris leaves in bags, and states whether guard removal and reinstallation is included. Any packed-debris surcharge appears in writing beforehand, and a repair found on the roof becomes its own authorized line.
It does not cover the underground drain line that has silted shut, fascia already rotted where water sat, or grading work on a chronically wet clay corner. Those are separate scopes with separate numbers.
Schedule the small job that keeps the larger water problem from getting started. The crew clears the gutters and downspouts, checks where the discharge lands, and gives you the price before work begins. No ladder climbing required from you.
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