Our own crew cleans your gutters, every downspout flushed and flow-tested, everything hauled away, 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 over the roof, and the number we give you on the phone is the number on your invoice. We have done this work across Illinois for years, and most homeowners book in spring and fall. Every gutter comes out clean.
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 stories, square footage and what is 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. Commercial properties are priced the same way. Some companies price by the linear foot, and that lands in a similar place per run, but a per-foot figure hides the things that actually cost us time on the ladder.
Here is what moves the price on our jobs. A third story or a roof too steep to walk takes longer and needs a boom or scissor lift instead of a ladder. A walk-out basement or a sloped lot raises the effective height of the roofline, so the back run sits farther off the ground than the front. A rain gutter nobody has opened in years comes out packed with leaves and debris, compacted into a leaf mat that takes more hours to clean out. Guards we have to lift and reseat add time on every run, and a run with poor drainage takes longer to check. Downspout flushing, water flow testing and haul-away are included in the quote and are never billed as extras. Anything that changes the job is raised with you before work starts, never on the invoice.
On our jobs the heavy trouble is a clog at the elbow where a downspout turns, and clogged downspouts are the usual cause. We see it most on New Lenox homes where leaves have sat through a wet season, with a buildup of seeds and leaf mat in the trough. Left alone, a run that starts to sag can lead to structural damage. Until the elbow is clear, the downspout is not moving water away from the foundation at all. Clearing the clog is usually one visit, and the price matched the invoice. We call that a clean job, not a surprise one.
| 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 of our customers book twice a year, in spring and fall, once after the seed and pollen drop and once after the last leaves come down. The spring visit, across Illinois, usually lands in late May to June, and the fall visit in late October to November. In May a homeowner here opens a gutter and finds the rainwater path clogged by seeds and pollen paste, and in November it is the wet leaf mat that causes the blockage. On houses that skipped the fall visit, we see runs that pull loose by March, after the first ice, and a small leak at a seam along the roofline is often the first sign. A heavy rainfall will show you a blocked run before any calendar does, so do not wait to clean your gutters until after the storm.
Under heavy tree cover, we see customers on a schedule of every three to four months, because needles and grit pack the outlets between visits. Residential properties with a lot of shade usually fall on that schedule. A regular gutter cleaning service on that schedule keeps the gutter system moving, and gutter maintenance in between is a quick look at the outlets, with debris removal on the same visit if the lot needs it. With few or no trees, once a year in late fall is enough. Guarded gutters need fewer visits, but the surface still needs a quick clean. The same tier check runs on residential and commercial jobs in New Lenox IL, and after the first visit we tell you which tier your lot actually needs, so you are not guessing from a calendar.
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.
The crew covers the surrounding areas from the nearest base, and works the neighborhoods as the calendar allows. Booking is simple: call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the front of the house, and we give you a quote from the number of stories, the size and the tree cover. Lead time changes with the season, and when you call we tell you the next open date. Our calendar fills in the two busy windows of the year, late spring and late fall, so book early if you want a particular week. New Lenox gutter cleaning is a short booking, and most homeowners get on the calendar in one call, so get your gutters on the schedule before the next storm. If you have gutter guards, say so when you book, because the crew lifts the panels and reseats them on every visit.
We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for exterior work. Ask for a written estimate and we send it by text before the crew is scheduled, and the crew will flush every downspout on the visit. Our gutter services and cleanings cover gutters and downspouts from the first run to the last, and a twig lodged in an elbow comes out by hand. Our goal is to keep your gutters clean to protect your home from water damage before the next storm, not after it.
Our cleaning services in New Lenox are priced from the stories and the size of the house, and you get the number from us by phone at (866) 435-6328 or by text. Downspout flushing, flow testing and debris removal are in that number, and you will not see a surprise on the invoice.
Across New Lenox, most of our customers book late spring and late fall, because gutter maintenance does the most good before the seeds and the leaf mat set. If the spring visit is skipped, the seeds and pollen stay in the elbows, and if the fall visit is skipped, the leaf mat freezes in place and can pull runs loose by March.
Our gutter cleaning process starts with one call to (866) 435-6328, where we tell you the next open date, and we confirm the date with you before the crew is scheduled.
No. Our crew works outside and does not come inside, and leaves the landscape as clean as it was found. We send photos of every run and downspout to your phone before the truck leaves. Leave the side gate unlocked and keep pets inside while the ladders are up.
Yes, we flush every downspout and check that the water is leaving at the outlet. Once a downspout runs clean at the bottom, we move on. If a line drains into an underground system and water is not coming out, we tell you. Clearing a buried line is a separate job and is quoted before anyone touches it.
Yes. On our jobs guards stop leaves but not needles, seed casings or grit, which sit on top and mat down. Guards change the cleaning and maintenance, but they do not end it. We lift the panels, clear underneath, flush the outlets and reseat the guards, so the gutters go back clean.
Water should run away from your home. If a clean gutter still sheets water over the edge in rain, the problem is slope, capacity or downspout size, not what is in the trough. Send us a photo or a short video in the rain and we tell you what it is. A gutter that keeps spilling can rot the fascia, so send the photo early. We do not sell a second cleaning for a slope problem.
Only if something changes the job, and you hear about it before work starts. The number we give you is the number on the invoice, whether it is a one-story house or a bigger job.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
