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Windows and gutters

Gutter clearing, flushing and whitening

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.

What owners tend to describe

  • Water sheeting over the front edge of the gutter in a storm
  • Dark tiger-striping down the outside face of white gutter
  • A downspout that gurgles or does nothing at all
  • Growth or a seedling visibly living in the run

What the job looks like

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.

Want someone who has done it on this island?

Explain it in your own words. One crew, one call, and no charge to you at any point.

Coverage

Which part of the area

Only the stretches where this comes up often enough to be worth listing.

North end

The north end, split between raw inlet exposure at the tip and sheltered, algae-growing lagoons behind it.

Central island

Dense small-lot streets with more rental duplexes than anywhere else on Long Beach Island.

South end

The south end, with more hardscape, more pools and more painted woodwork than the rest of the island combined.

Mainland

Year-round owners rather than rental turnovers, so the calendar runs on leaf drop rather than on Saturdays.

Related

Often booked with this

House and roof washing

Salt film and rust stain removal

Iron staining from irrigation wells and the chloride film off the ocean. Different problems, different treatments, neither one fixed by washing harder.

$325 – $1,200 typical range, not a quote

Cedar, decks and docks

Dock, bulkhead and boat-lift washing

Growth off the decking, the bulkhead cap and the lift frame, worked to the tide and to what is acceptable to put in the bay.

$400 – $1,600 typical range, not a quote

Windows and gutters

Window, screen and glass door cleaning

Glass, screens, tracks and sliders, including the ocean-facing salt film that ordinary cleaning puts back within a week.

$275 – $950 typical range, not a quote