Our own crew cleans gutters and downspouts in Palos Hills, IL, every downspout flushed and flow-tested, leaves hauled away, and photos of every run before we leave. The price comes from your stories, your square footage and how much tree cover hangs over the roof, and the number we give you on the phone is the number on your invoice. Most of our Palos Hills homeowners book in spring and fall, and we hold a slot for you the same way. Call (866) 435-6328 to book this clean today.
Quoted from stories, size and tree cover, over the phone, with nothing added once the crew is on the roof.
The price of a clean depends on how many stories the house has, how big it is and what is sitting in the gutters. We give an estimate over the phone or by text from those three things, and the number we give you is the number we charge. Companies that sell cleaning services by the linear foot land in a similar place per foot, but a per-foot number hides the things that actually cost us time on the ladder.
On our jobs, the things that move the price are consistent. A third story, or a roof too steep to walk, means a boom or scissor lift instead of a ladder. A walk-out basement or a sloped lot raises the effective height of the back roofline. Gutters that have not seen a clean in years come down packed with compacted muck that takes longer to clear than a light fall load. A clog or blockage low in a run adds time on every run it touches. Guards we have to lift and reseat add time too. Downspout flushing, flow testing and haul-off are included in the quote and never billed as extras. If anything we find changes the job, such as a leak at a seam, you hear about it before work starts, never on the invoice.
Here is what the gutter cleaning process looks like on a typical visit. A homeowner calls, we ask about stories and square footage, and we send a photo of the front of the house by text if that is easy. We confirm the number in writing, and the crew arrives in the window we agreed. Nobody needs to be home, and the photos of every run arrive on your phone before the truck leaves. For most houses the quote does not change once the crew is on the roof, because the stories and the square footage were already right. Where it does change, we stop and tell you what we found before we go any further. A clean, flowing gutter is how you protect your home from water damage, and it starts with a quote you can trust.
Calling gutter maintenance a flat rate, or a standard fee, would be the wrong way to describe it. Cleaning and maintenance on one house is never the same job as on the next. Every clean is quoted from the house in front of us, and that is the only honest way we know to price the work.
| 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 the Palos Hills homes we clean book twice a year, once in late spring after the seed and pollen drop, and once in late fall after the leaves and debris come down. On our jobs that schedule catches the two loads that fill a gutter fastest. When we open a gutter here in spring we usually find seeds, seed casings and pollen paste packed into the downspout elbows, and a clog usually forms there first. In fall it is the wet leaf mat, and on houses that skipped the fall visit we have found runs that sag under ice by the time March came around, which is where fascia rot and structural damage start.
Under heavy tree cover, with big trees hanging over the roof, our customers are on every three to four months, because needles, a stray twig and grit leave clogged downspouts between visits. Houses with few or no trees, on a landscape that drops little into the gutters, need a single visit a year in late fall, and that is usually enough. A gutter system fitted with gutter guards still gets a clean, less often, with the surface cleared off each time so the water keeps moving to the downspout, and a rain gutter under big trees still needs the same check.
Gutters on this side of the state keep their freeze-thaw cycle in mind. The wettest months are May, June and July, so a spring visit clears the trough before the heavy rainfall arrives. The fall visit matters most because the first hard freeze traps whatever water is still standing in the trough, and that is when ice dams start to form at the eave. A clean gutter in November carries rainwater away from the eave before that happens, and it keeps water flow moving to the downspouts. Across Illinois the same logic holds in the south of the state, where the pollen season is longer and the leaf load comes later.
After the first clean we tell you which tier your lot actually needs, and that recommendation comes from what we found in your gutters rather than a general rule. Our aim is to help you keep your gutters flowing between visits, and the same logic applies to homes in surrounding areas with similar tree cover.
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 across Palos Hills from the nearest base, and as one of the cleaning services in Palos Hills, booking is simple. Call (866) 435-6328 or text us a photo of the house front, and we will confirm stories, size and tree cover before we give you a number. Spring and fall are our busiest windows for cleanings, so if you want to get your gutters booked for a particular week, it helps to get in touch early. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for the visit.
Lead time depends on how many houses are already on the calendar that week, and we will tell you the earliest date we can reach when you book our gutter services. Residential and commercial work runs on the same calendar, so a booking for your house does not push back a commercial site, and the other way around. Residential properties and commercial properties get the same photos of every run and the same flushed downspout. Debris removal is included in every booking. If your gutters are clogged or overflowing right now, say so when you call, and if you want to clean your gutters before storm season, say so too. We will look at the date that gets to you fastest.
The number comes from stories and square footage, and we give it to you over the phone or by text. We do not quote a figure without those details, because the same two-story house can cost very different amounts depending on how much material is in the gutters and whether guards need to be lifted. Once we have the three things, the quote is the number we charge.
Most of our customers here book in late spring, after the seed and pollen drop, and again in late fall, before the first hard freeze. Across Illinois the freeze is what turns a clog into ice dams, and a gutter that waits past that first freeze is the one with sagging runs by March. Those two windows are when we see the least trouble.
Same-day depends on what is already booked that week, so call (866) 435-6328 and we tell you the earliest date for the gutter cleaning service. Most slots come up within the week, and we confirm the exact date with you before we come out.
No. Our crew works outside, does not come inside, and sends photos of every run and downspout to your phone after each clean before the truck leaves. Leave the side gate unlocked and keep pets inside while the ladders are up, and that is the whole list.
Yes, every downspout is flushed with water and watched until it runs clear at the bottom. Where a downspout feeds an underground drain line, we check that water is leaving at the outlet and tell you if it is not. The point is to carry water away from your home, not just out of the trough, and clearing a buried line is a separate job that is quoted before anyone touches it.
Yes, though less often. Guards stop leaves but not needles, seed casings or the grit that mats on top of them, so regular gutter cleaning still applies. On our jobs we lift the panels, clear what sits on the surface, flush the downspout and reseat the guards, and that keeps the water moving.
If a clean gutter still sheets water over the edge in rain, the problem is usually slope or drainage capacity, not buildup. Send us a photo or a short video taken during rain, and we will tell you what it actually is. We will not sell a second cleaning for a slope problem.
It should not. The quote is built from stories, square footage and tree cover, and those are confirmed before the clean starts. If something we find changes the job, we stop and tell you before we go further, and you agree to the change before work continues.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
