Windows and gutters
Clearing the run, flushing every downspout, and — separately — taking the black tiger-striping off the outside face.
If this is what you are looking at, you are not the first person on this island to look at it.
Covered across Long Beach Island and southern Ocean County, New Jersey: North Beach Haven, Holgate, Beach Haven Crest and Spray Beach, among the nine municipalities we serve. Salt air, sea fog and prevailing south-westerlies do the damage here that shade and tree litter do inland, and they work on a different timetable — the worst of it lands between the first storms of autumn and the spring open-up.
Two jobs get sold under one name. Clearing is emptying the run and flushing each downspout until it draws properly — a blocked downspout is its own line item on most quotes and is usually the real fault. Whitening is a separate treatment for the tiger-striping, which is not dirt but bonded oxidised residue and will not come off with the wash. Ask which one you are getting; a clear gutter that still looks filthy is the commonest complaint in this trade.
$175 – $500
typical range, not a quote for Long Beach Island and the mainland.
Not a quote, and not a judgement about your property. What a job actually costs comes down to height, access, what the surface is made of and how far it has been left — which is why it takes someone standing in front of it.
Explain it in your own words. One crew, one call, and no charge to you at any point.
Coverage
The communities on Long Beach Island and the southern Ocean County mainland where this comes up often enough to list.
The north end, split between raw inlet exposure at the tip and sheltered, algae-growing lagoons behind it.
Dense small-lot streets with more rental duplexes than anywhere else on Long Beach Island.
The south end, with more hardscape, more pools and more painted woodwork than the rest of the island combined.
Year-round owners rather than rental turnovers, so the calendar runs on leaf drop rather than on Saturdays.
Related
House and roof washing
Iron staining from irrigation wells and the chloride film off the ocean. Different problems, different treatments, neither one fixed by washing harder.
Windows and gutters
Glass, screens, tracks and sliders, including the ocean-facing salt film that ordinary cleaning puts back within a week.
House and roof washing
Low-pressure treatment for the black streaking and moss on asphalt shingle. The method shingle manufacturers actually allow.