Our own crew comes out to clean your gutters, flow-tests the outlets, hauls away the leaves and debris, and sends photos of every run before we leave. Clean gutters protect your home from water damage. Our gutter cleaning services cover the whole house, and a homeowner gets one crew, one price and the photos to prove it. The price comes from your stories, the size of the house and how much tree cover hangs over the roof, and the number we give you on the phone is the number on the invoice.
Quoted from stories, size and tree cover, over the phone, with nothing added once the crew is on the roof.
For wheaton homes the price depends on how many stories the house has, its size and what is sitting in the gutters. We quote it over the phone or by text from those three things, and the number we give you is the number we charge. We clean residential and commercial properties, and a commercial job is priced the same way, with one figure set before the crew climbs.
On our jobs the things that move the price are consistent. A third story or a roof too steep to walk takes more time on the ladder and the lift. A walk-out basement or a sloped lot raises the effective height of the roofline, so the back run sits farther up than it looks from the yard. Gutters nobody has opened in years come down packed with compacted debris, and a run that has sat full that long may already show rot in the fascia or structural damage at the brackets, which is a repair, not a cleaning. Guards we have to lift and reseat add their own time. Flushing and flow testing are included and never billed as extras. Every homeowner gets the same rule: if anything we find changes the job, we raise it before work starts, never on the invoice. A fair price is one you can check line by line against the invoice.
Here is what a clog does to a gutter system on the ground. A steady buildup of leaves and grit can start to sag the front run and drop the water flow at the corner to a trickle, and a sagging run is the one that starts to leak at the joints. A single twig jammed in an elbow can do the same on a smaller scale. Once the blockage is cleared and the clogged downspouts are flushed, the drainage carries the water away from your home the way it is meant to. A rear run on a slope nobody can walk is one reason the price goes up, and we tell you that before we climb.
| 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.
Plan on two cleanings a year, one in spring and one in fall, and adjust from there. Across Illinois, spring visits land in late May to June and fall visits in late October to November, and those are the two windows to plan around. Wheaton IL gets about 39.3 inches of precipitation a year, with May, June and August the wettest months, so heavy rainfall hits the gutters hardest right when seed casings and pollen paste are packed into the elbows. A clog that forms that way is harder to clear by fall. A clean gutter in May does not stay clean if the trees keep dropping seed casings. In November it is the wet leaf mat, and the snow months from December through March put the weight of ice on any run that was not cleared, which can lead to structural damage.
Under heavy tree cover or a yard with mulch beds, regular gutter cleaning keeps the rain gutter draining, because needles and grit pack the outlets between visits. Dust from a busy road or active construction fills the trough faster, so those lots need the same attention. For residential properties with few or no trees, once a year in late fall is usually enough to keep the rainwater moving. Gutter guards cut the frequency, but we still clean the surface debris on them when we visit.
After the first visit we tell you which schedule your lot actually needs, and we give you an estimate for the roofline and the blockage we see up there. Whether you want to clean your gutters twice a year or keep your gutters on a regular schedule, the choice is yours. Debris removal is included with each visit. To book a date, call (866) 435-6328 or send us a photo of the gutters, and we will confirm the next open slot.
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 the town and the surrounding areas, and most addresses sit on a regular route. Booking starts with a quote by phone or text based on your stories, the size of the house and how much tree cover is over the roof. Call (866) 435-6328 or send a photo of the house front if it is easy to send. Lead times depend on the season, and our calendar fills fastest in late spring and late fall, when demand for cleaning services is highest. A clean schedule is easier to hold than a rushed one.
We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for the visit. Our gutter cleaning process is the same on every job: an agreed price, a booked date and photos at the end, and Wheaton gutter cleaning follows those steps. We flush every downspout before the crew packs up. If you want regular gutter cleaning on a schedule, we can book the next visit before the crew leaves the driveway. Our gutter services and gutter maintenance keep the cleaning and maintenance on track without a reminder from you, and the ground is left clean when the crew leaves.
The number comes from the stories, the size of the house and what is in the gutters. We quote it by phone or text, and that figure is the number on the invoice. Flushing and haul-off are included.
Across Illinois, spring visits fall in late May to June and fall visits in late October to November, so plan to clean your gutters in those windows. The snow months run from December through March across Wheaton, and a run skipped in the fall can sag under the weight of ice.
Availability changes with the season, so the fastest answer is a call. Our cleaning services in Wheaton are booked by date, and when you call we confirm a date that works for your schedule and tell you how soon the crew can get out.
No. Our crew works outside and does not come inside. We send photos of every run and every outlet to your phone before the truck leaves. Leave the side gate unlocked and keep pets inside while the ladders are up, and the crew leaves the ground as clean as it found it.
Yes, every outlet is flushed and we check that water is leaving at the bottom. If a drain line runs underground, we tell you whether the drainage is getting through. Clearing a buried line is a separate job and is priced before we touch it.
Yes. Under gutter guards on a leafy landscape we still find needles, seed casings and grit sitting on top of the mesh and packed underneath, so gutter maintenance is lighter but still needed. We lift the panels, clear the surface, check the drains and reseat the guards.
A rain gutter that is clean and still spills over in heavy rainfall has a slope or capacity problem, not a blockage problem. 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 issue.
It should not. If the crew finds something that changes the job, you hear it and agree to it before work starts. Call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the roofline and we will send a written estimate so you can get your gutters on the calendar.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
