Our own crew cleans your gutters, flushing every downspout and checking that it runs clear, hauling the leaves away so the yard is left clean, and sending photos of every run before we leave. Call (866) 435-6328 and we give you a quote from the number of stories, the size of the house and how much tree cover hangs over the roof. The number we give you on the phone is the number on the invoice. Homeowners who book with us most often do it in spring and fall, and that is when our calendar fills.
Quoted from stories, size and tree cover, over the phone, with nothing added once the crew is on the roof.
The price for our gutter cleaning services depends on how many stories the house has, how large it is and what is sitting in the gutters. We quote it over the phone or by text from those three things, and the number we quote is the number we charge. Our estimate is built the same way for every house, so each visit starts with the same questions about the house. Other companies price by the linear foot, which lands in a similar place once the gutter length is counted, but on our jobs the stories and the pitch matter more than the length.
What moves the quote is what the crew finds when it gets on the ladder. A third story or a roof too steep to walk takes more time and more equipment. A walk-out basement or a sloped lot raises the effective height of the back run. Gutters that have not been opened in years come down packed with compacted leaves and debris and take longer to clean. Guards we have to lift, clean underneath and reseat add time as well. Houses with clogged downspouts take longer too, because each one has to be flushed until it runs clear. Downspout flushing, flow testing and debris removal are included in every quote and are never billed as extras. If anything changes the job, you hear about it before work starts, never on the invoice.
Joliet homes with the heaviest load tend to be the ones where a clog has sat through a full season of heavy rainfall, with the gutter sagging and water running over the edge into the landscape beds. On one job we cleared a gutter that had sat sagged for two seasons. A buildup of wet leaves sat at the elbow of a downspout, and drainage came back once it was cleared, though the sag needed a separate fix that we photographed and reported. The downspout ran clean at the outlet after that, and the water flow was checked to the end of the run. That is the kind of structural damage a clogged run causes when it goes unattended, and the board behind the gutter can rot before anyone looks. Ask us for a quote and we will tell you which of these applies to your house before we start.
| One story | Two stories | Three stories or steep | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1,500 sq ft | from $150 | from $195 | from $255 |
| 1,500 to 2,500 sq ft | from $170 | from $225 | from $295 |
| Over 2,500 sq ft | from $200 | from $265 | from $345 |
For context, nationally: Angi 2026, US average $168, most $119 to $234, $0.95 to $2.25 per linear foot.
Downspouts flushed and flow-tested, debris hauled, photos of every run. The quote already has all of it in.
Our crew clears every gutter run by hand, not just the stretch you can see from the driveway. Roof valleys and the area above the gutter line are blown clear first, so the next rain does not refill what was just emptied. Every downspout is flushed with water and watched until it runs clear at the bottom; one that will not clear is worked from the top where it can be reached. Where a downspout feeds an underground drain line, the crew checks that water is leaving at the outlet and tells you if it is not; clearing a buried line is a separate job and is quoted before anyone touches it.
Debris goes into bags and leaves with the truck. It is not blown onto the lawn, the deck or next door. The ground is left as it was found.
Before the crew leaves you get photos of every run and every downspout, before and after, on your phone, whether or not you were home. Anything the crew sees that is not a cleaning problem, a hanger pulled loose, a seam dripping, a run sitting flat, is photographed and reported, not repaired and not sold on the spot.
What can change the number, and you hear it before work starts, never on the invoice: a third story or a roof too steep to walk; gutters that have not been touched in years; guards that have to come off and go back on.
Twice a year for most houses: once after the spring seed and pollen drop, once after the last leaves fall.
Most customers in Joliet IL book twice a year, in spring and fall, to clean your gutters: once in late spring after the seeds and pollen have dropped, and once in late fall after the last leaves come down. When we open a gutter here in late May or June, we usually find seed casings and pollen paste packed into the downspout elbows. In fall it is the wet leaf mat, and on the houses that skipped the fall visit we have seen gutters sag by March under the weight of ice.
Under heavy tree cover, or near a busy road or a building site, customers usually need a visit every three to four months, because needles and grit pack the outlets between visits and a single blockage can back rainwater up under the shingles. With few or no trees overhead, one cleaning a year in late fall is usually enough, since there are fewer leaves and debris to carry in. Guards cut the number of cleanings, but the surface still needs to be cleared, so they are not a reason to skip the visit.
After the first visit we tell you which schedule your lot actually needs, based on what we found in the gutters. The same logic applies to residential properties and commercial properties, because the tree cover and the house itself set the schedule, not the type of building. Regular gutter cleaning on that schedule is what keeps the roof dry. Each gutter cleaning service is the same routine, cleaning and maintenance on the runs we already know, with less to clear. Once we know the roofline and the tree cover, the schedule is easy to keep, and a clean gutter at every visit makes the next one faster.
Water over the edge rots the board behind the gutter first. Everything after that is slow, and slow is what a policy excludes.
The three signs. Water pouring over the front edge in rain instead of out of the downspout. A run that sags, sits low or has pulled away from the fascia. Plants growing out of the trough. Any one of them means the gutter is full.
What happens next. Water that cannot drain sits in the trough and spills behind it. The fascia board rots, then the soffit. Water backs up under the first course of shingles and shows up as a ceiling stain. Siding stains and swells. Below, the overflow cuts a channel at the foundation and finds the basement. The wet debris itself weighs enough to pull the gutter off the house. Standing water breeds mosquitoes; dry debris houses wasps. Where winters freeze, the trapped water becomes an ice dam at the eave and lifts the shingles from underneath.
Why your policy will not pay. Homeowners insurance generally does not cover water damage traced to clogged gutters. Carriers class gutter cleaning as routine maintenance, and damage from skipped maintenance as preventable neglect, which a standard policy excludes. A limb that tears a gutter off in a storm is sudden and accidental and is usually covered; a fascia board that rotted over two years is not. This is general information, not insurance advice; read your policy or ask your agent.
Guards stop leaves. They do not stop needles, seeds, grit or the paste they turn into. The job gets shorter, not gone.
Yes, guarded gutters still need cleaning, less often, and it is a different job: clearing what sits on top of the guard and checking that water is actually getting in, rather than scooping out the trough. Mesh and screen guards hold whole leaves off. Pine needles thread through, seed casings and pollen mat on top, roof grit settles underneath, and once that mat is wet, rain runs over it and off the front edge. The gutter is empty and the water never went in.
Guards earn their keep under big leafy trees and on roofs too high to want to climb. They do not end maintenance, whatever the installer said. Our crew lifts the panels, clears underneath, flushes the downspouts and reseats the guards; tell us what is on the house when you get the quote and it is priced as a guarded system, which usually runs shorter than an open one.
Under an hour on most houses. Nobody has to be there, and the photos arrive either way.
The crew calls the day before with an arrival window and again when they are on the way. This Old House puts a professional gutter cleaning at 30 minutes to an hour on a typical home; bigger houses, steep roofs and gutters left for years run longer. Nobody needs to be home for exterior work; the crew does not come inside. Before they arrive: side gate unlocked, cars off the driveway if runs face it, pets inside while ladders are up. Ladder stand-offs keep the ladder off the gutter lip and the siding. After: photos of every run and downspout before the truck leaves, and an invoice that matches the quote.
Send us a photo or a short video in the rain. You hear what it is before anyone talks about money.
Still overflowing. A gutter that is clean and still sheets water over the edge in rain has a slope, capacity or downspout-size problem, not a debris problem. If that happens after a cleaning, send us a photo or a short video of it in the rain and we tell you what it actually is; we do not sell a second cleaning for a slope problem.
The number. The price quoted on the phone is the price on the invoice. If the crew finds something that changes the job, you hear it and agree to it before they start, never after.
Your house. Stand-offs on every ladder so nothing rests on the gutter lip, and screens and downspout extensions go back where they were.
Payment. The balance is charged when the job is finished and the photos are on your phone. Some dates take a small booking fee to hold the slot, and you hear about it before you book.
The whole city and the towns around it, booked by phone or text from the nearest crew.
Our crew works from the nearest base, and we book the Joliet gutter cleaning work by phone or text. Call (866) 435-6328 or send a text with the number of stories, a rough square footage and whether trees hang over the roof. A photo of the house front helps if it is easy to send. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for exterior work. Lead times depend on the season, so the booking calendar fills fastest in the two busy windows of the year, late spring and late fall. Book early in those months and you will keep your preferred date. Every homeowner who calls gets the same questions, so the quote starts from the same place each time. Our gutter services are booked the same way for every house, and the same booking works for residential and commercial buildings.
Homeowners in the surrounding areas often ask how far our crew will travel, and the answer is that we cover the city and its nearby communities on the same schedule. If you are in a neighborhood we have not worked yet, call and we will tell you whether we can fit the job in. Our gutter services cover gutters and downspouts from the top of the trough to the outlet. Gutters that run clean carry water away from your home, and a gutter that looks clean with a blocked downspout does not. We work to protect your home from water damage, which is why we would rather clear your gutters on a regular schedule than wait for a sag to show up in the spring. Keep your gutters clear and the rest of the house usually stays dry. If you have seen a leak inside a ceiling, tell us on the call so the crew can look at that run first.
The number comes from the stories, the size of the house and how much is packed in the gutters, and we give it to you by phone or text. We do not quote a figure off a general list, because two two-story houses can take very different amounts of time. Once we have those details, the number we quote is the number on the invoice.
On our jobs most customers book in late spring after the seed and pollen drop, and again in late fall after the last leaves come down. If you wait past the fall visit, the wet leaf mat can freeze into the runs, and by March we find sagging gutters on houses that skipped it. The spring and fall visits catch most of what we see, which is why most of our cleaning services in Joliet are booked for those two windows.
Same-day slots are not something we promise. Most open dates come up within the week, and we confirm the exact day when you call. If your gutters are overflowing now, tell us when you call and we will check what we can move. If you want to get your gutters cleared before a storm, say so on the call too.
No, you do not need to be home. Our crew works outside, does not come inside, and sends photos of every run and downspout to your phone before the truck leaves. The gutter cleaning process is the same whether you are home or not. Leave the side gate unlocked and keep pets inside while the ladders are up, and that is the whole list. The yard is left clean when the crew goes.
Yes, we flush every downspout and check that it runs clear at the outlet, and we flow test each run. If a downspout drains into an underground line, we check that water is leaving at the outlet and tell you if it is not. Clearing a buried line is a separate job and is quoted before anyone touches it.
Yes, guarded gutters still need gutter maintenance, though less often than open ones. On our jobs we find needles, a twig or two, seed casings and fluff sitting on top of the guard, along with grit, and when that mat gets wet the water runs over the edge. We clear the surface, flush each downspout, leave the guards clean and reseat them, so the job is shorter but it is not skipped.
If the gutters are clean and still spill water over the edge in the rain, the problem is usually slope, capacity or downspout size, so the whole rain gutter system needs a look. Send us a photo or a short video taken during the rain and we will tell you what it is. We do not sell a second cleaning for a slope problem.
It should not. The quote we give you is the number we charge, and if the crew finds something that changes the job, we stop and tell you before any more work is done. You agree to the change first, and a clean invoice matches the quote.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
