Gutter Cleaning in Springfield, VA

Clearly Amazing cleans gutters in Springfield, Virginia, with crews sent out from our Northern Virginia office in Sterling. The estimate is free, and we do it on site so we can see the roofline before quoting it. Springfield is a Census-designated place in Fairfax County, not an incorporated municipality, so it has no government of its own. The Census Bureau puts its land area at about 7.85 square miles.

Call (703) 723-7770 for a free on-site estimate.

Lake Accotink and the watershed around it

Lake Accotink Park, the county park at 7500 Accotink Park Road, has a Springfield address and falls inside the Springfield CDP. The Fairfax County Park Authority says the Accotink Creek watershed covers 51 square miles, and that 30 of those square miles drain into the lake. County Public Works describes the creek continuing southeast to Accotink Bay, then Gunston Cove, and finally the tidal Potomac River. Roughly 12 square miles of the watershed are outside Fairfax County’s jurisdiction, within the City of Fairfax or Fort Belvoir.

Those pages describe the watershed as a whole. They don’t say which way any particular street drains, and we won’t guess. The part of the picture a homeowner does control is small and specific: whether rain leaves the roof through the downspouts, or spills over the front edge of a clogged trough and lands against the siding, the foundation and the beds below.

What ends up in your gutters

Fairfax County’s 2017 i-Tree study estimated 44,400,000 trees across the county and tree cover of 51.2 percent. Counted tree by tree, the three commonest species were American beech and red maple, at 9.7 percent each, and tulip tree at 6.3 percent. That survey covered the county as a whole; it did not measure Springfield on its own, and it can’t tell you what is growing above your roof.

Leaves are only one ingredient. Seeds, twigs, bits of bark, grit washed off the shingles and anything the wind carries in all settle into the same channel. Once that mix is packed down and wet, water moves through it slowly or not at all, and the next heavy rain goes over the edge instead of down the spout. A trough full of soaked debris is also heavy, which puts strain on the hangers and keeps the back of the gutter and the fascia board damp for days after a storm.

What the job involves

Areas we cover in Springfield

Our crews work in Springfield from the Sterling office. Saratoga is on our list: its association describes 690 single-family homes and gives its ZIP code as 22153, although the Census Bureau places it in the Newington CDP rather than the Springfield CDP. So are the four subdivisions of the Newington Community Association, namely Newington Station, Newington Glen, Newington Place and Woodmere. Orange Hunt Estates, whose civic association uses a Springfield mailing address, is covered as well.

When to schedule in Springfield

NOAA’s 1991–2020 normals for Reagan National Airport show 41.82 inches of precipitation a year. In those station figures, the driest month, February, still averages 2.62 inches, and the wettest, July, averages 4.33. In other words, gutters here carry water in every season.

The ideal time for a cleaning is late fall, once the leaves are down, because that clears the biggest load of the year before winter. A spring visit is a sensible second pass for seeds, blossoms and whatever the winter storms added. Any other time is welcome too: before listing the house, after you notice water sheeting over a corner during a storm, or simply when you want it crossed off the list. Think of it as routine upkeep that belongs on the calendar next to servicing the furnace.

Questions Springfield customers ask