Our own crew cleans gutters in Maywood and leaves them clean, every downspout flushed and flow-tested, everything hauled off the property, and photos of every run before we leave. The price comes from the number of stories, the size of the house and how much tree cover is overhead, and the number we give you on the phone is the number on the invoice. Most of our customers book in spring and fall, and that schedule has held up across Illinois for us.
Quoted from stories, size and tree cover, over the phone, with nothing added once the crew is on the roof.
The price depends on stories, square footage 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. Other gutter cleaning services that price by the linear foot land in a similar place, though the per-foot math is harder to check against your own roofline, and our cleanings are priced from the house, not the foot. Every clean job we quote starts from the same three questions a homeowner can answer from the driveway.
What moves the quote on our jobs is usually a third story or a roof too steep to walk, a walk-out basement that puts the back run far up the wall, gutters nobody has opened in years and packed with compacted muck, and gutter guards we have to lift and reseat before we can get to the trough. A single clog at a downspout elbow, or a twig jammed in the outlet, can add a visit's worth of work, and a sagging run can point to structural damage that we flag for you before any repair is quoted. The front run is usually a quick clean; the back run is where the time goes. We flush every downspout, run a flow test and haul everything away as part of the price, and none of it is billed as an extra. Poor drainage or a leak at one corner of the gutter system usually shows up in that flow test, and we walk you through it first. If anything changes the job, you hear about it before work starts, never on the invoice.
On our Maywood work, a recent job with heavy tree cover and a two-story front cost more than the flat-roof house two streets over because the crew spent most of the visit clearing a packed back run and flushing three clogged downspouts that had been blocked for a season. Maywood homeowners who want a number before booking can call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the front of the house, and we will give you a number from what we see. Looking for cleaning services in Maywood IL? Get your gutters on the schedule before the leaves drop, and we will give you a clean number before the crew climbs a ladder.
| 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.
Across Illinois, the spring visit usually falls in late May to June, after the seed and pollen drop, and the fall visit in late October or November, after the last leaves. Most of our Maywood customers book both. Maywood's wettest months are May, June and August, so the point of the spring visit is to have the gutters clean before heavy rainfall starts. In spring the elbows of the downspouts are packed with seeds and pollen paste. In fall it is the wet leaf mat that has to come out before the rains, and on houses that skipped the fall visit we see runs that have sagged under ice by March and fascia boards starting to rot.
Under heavy tree cover, leaves and debris pack the downspouts between visits, so those houses are on a schedule of every three to four months. Few or no trees overhead means once a year in late fall is usually enough to keep a clean trough. Houses near a busy road or active construction also tend toward the shorter interval, because grit settles in a rain gutter faster than leaves do. A yard with a full landscape of mature trees tends toward the shorter interval too. A clog left over a season can back rainwater up into a whole gutter run. The same logic applies to commercial properties, which we schedule from the trees and the traffic on the lot rather than from a fixed calendar, and residential properties follow the same rule.
After the first visit, with a clean trough to look at, we tell you which of those tiers your lot actually needs, based on what came out of the gutters, not on a general rule. Regular gutter cleaning and maintenance on that schedule is the easiest route to keep your gutters clean and free of sag, and it is the core of any gutter maintenance plan we set up. To get your gutters on the schedule, book your first date and we will note the baseline for the next visit.
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.
We clean gutters on homes across all of Maywood, IL, and the surrounding areas, all from our nearest crew base. Maywood homes get the same gutter cleaning service as anywhere else we work, with the same flush test and water flow check on every downspout. Downspout extensions can carry water away from your home, and we check where they end. The debris removal works the same on residential and commercial jobs, and nothing gets dumped in the flowerbeds, so the beds are left clean. Booking runs through a quote by phone or text based on stories, size and tree cover, and a photo of the house front if that is easy for you to send. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for exterior work.
Our calendar fills at two busy windows of the year, spring and fall, when the seed drop and the leaf drop hit at once. The leaves and debris from both drops, and the buildup they leave in the trough, are what tend to clog a gutter system, so late spring and late fall are when we are busiest, since that is when most houses want a clean trough. If you can book outside those windows you will usually get a slot sooner. For a specific date, call (866) 435-6328 and ask what is open; we confirm the day when you call rather than promising one from a web form. If you want to clean your gutters before the next storm, call early, and ask about our gutter services for drainage problems that show up mid-season.
The number comes from stories and square footage, and we give you an estimate by phone or text, the same way we price any gutter cleaning service call around Maywood, IL. We do not give a figure on this page because the house decides it, not the page.
Our customers here book late spring and late fall. Maywood carries freeze risk in winter, so if you wait past the first hard freeze, the leaf mat is harder to get out, a clog can lock in ice, and runs can sag before we reach them. A clean gutter in late October or November is the easier job.
Most slots come up within the week across Maywood and the surrounding areas, and we confirm a specific date when you call. We do not promise same-day service from a web page.
No. A homeowner does not need to be there. Our crew works on your gutters and downspouts from outside, does not come inside, and sends photos of every run and downspout to your phone before the truck leaves. Ladder stand-offs help protect your home, and the waste gets hauled away from your home rather than dumped near it. Leave the side gate unlocked and keep pets inside while the ladders are up.
Yes. Our gutter cleaning process includes one rule: flush every downspout and check that water is leaving at the outlet, including where a line runs underground. A downspout that runs clean at the bottom is the test we use, and a blockage that will not clear gets worked from the top. Clearing a buried line is a separate job and we quote it before anyone touches it.
Yes, though less often. On our jobs we find seed casings and fine debris sitting on top of the guard, with grit settled underneath, and that stops rainwater from getting into the rain gutter. So we clear the surface and check drainage at the outlet. Keep your gutters flowing with that check at every visit.
A clean gutter that still sheets rainwater over the edge in rain has a slope or downspout-size problem, not a clog. Send us a photo or a short video in the rain and we will tell you what it is. We will not sell a second cleaning for a slope problem. Left alone, that slope problem can rot the fascia and cause structural damage, so catching it early protects your home from water damage.
Only if something changes the job, and then you hear it before work starts. A clean invoice matches the number we quoted on the phone.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
