About Clean Gutters Charlotte
We clean gutters, fit guards, install and repair gutter systems, and clear the buried drain lines that so often turn out to be the actual problem. We work across Charlotte and much of the surrounding metro.
How this site is written
Most gutter company websites are written to sound established. This one is written to be checkable, which is a different goal and occasionally an awkward one. Every factual claim about Charlotte on this site - the debris calendar, the rainfall figures, the historic district list, what the stormwater ordinance says, which authority governs which town - was read at a primary source and is attributed on the page. Where the primary source was unreachable or ambiguous, we say so rather than filling the gap with something plausible.
That produces some unusual sentences. Our seasonal guide tells you that NC State Extension does not publish leaf-drop months by species, so we do not name one. Our historic districts guide explains the Certificate of Appropriateness rule and then declines to tell you exactly how the commission treats one specific kind of exterior work, because we have not confirmed it with them. Our tree canopy figure carries the date of the imagery it came from, because it is a few years old and pretending otherwise would be easy.
What we have chosen not to publish
No step-by-step gutter cleaning instructions. This is the highest-traffic thing we could write and we have decided against it. The failure mode is a fall, and the people most likely to follow written instructions are the least practised at the work.
No reviews, ratings or testimonials. This site carries none, and it carries no review markup in its code either. If we ever publish them, they will be real and identifiable.
No claims about how long we have been doing this. You will not find a founding year or a customer count on this site, because we are not going to manufacture history.
No licence claims. North Carolina does not license gutter cleaning - the state's contractor licensing statute applies to construction work above a threshold that routine gutter work does not approach. There is no licence to hold for this trade, so nobody can show you one, and anyone implying otherwise is trading on your not knowing that.
What we will tell you
When cleaning will not fix your problem. When a guard is not worth it on your lot. When the gutters are the wrong size rather than dirty. And when the thing that needs attention is the fascia behind the run or the pipe under the lawn rather than anything we were called out to look at. That is not a sales position, it is the only one that survives the second visit.
Why we work this way
Partly because it is the right way round, and partly because the alternative does not survive contact with customers. A site that oversells gets found out on the first visit, and a gutter company lives on repeat work and referrals in a way that makes that a bad trade. It also means that when we do tell you something needs doing, the claim is worth more. A company that says everything needs replacing has told you nothing; one that regularly says otherwise has given its recommendations some weight.
Contact
The quickest route is the contact page. Tell us the address and what the gutters are actually doing - overflowing at the front edge, backing up at the downspout, sagging, staining - and that description usually narrows the job before anyone arrives. The contact form is not connected yet, and the contact page says so plainly rather than accepting messages into nowhere. That is the same principle as everything above, applied somewhere less flattering.