Our own crew cleans gutters in Frankfort. Every drain pipe is flushed and flow-tested, the debris is hauled away, and you get photos of every run before we leave. The price comes from your stories, the size of the house and how much tree cover is over the gutters, and the number we give you on the phone is the number on the invoice. Call (866) 435-6328 for a quote. Most of our customers book in spring and fall, when the seeds and leaves are heaviest, and a clean gutter at that point keeps water away from your home.
Quoted from stories, size and tree cover, over the phone, with nothing added once the crew is on the roof.
Our gutter cleaning services are priced from stories, square footage and what is sitting in the gutters. We set the number by phone or text from those three things, and the number we give is the number we charge. Companies that price by the linear foot land in a similar place per foot, but the stories and roof pitch decide how long the job actually takes.
What moves the quote on our jobs is what the crew turns up when it gets up there, and how much work stands between the gutter and a clean trough. A third story or a roof too steep to walk takes more time and more equipment. A walk-out basement or sloped lot raises the effective height of the back run. Gutters nobody has opened in years come down packed with compacted debris, and guards we have to lift and reseat add their own minutes. A twig wedged in an elbow or a clogged drain pipe takes longer than a loose handful of leaves. Flushing the drain pipes, flow testing and debris removal are included and never billed as extras. If something changes the job, you hear it before work starts, never on the invoice.
Picture a two-story house with heavy tree cover and a clog at the back run that has been building for a couple of seasons. The gutter is full of seeds and grit, and the water flow at the drain pipe is almost nothing. A crew clears the run, flushes every drain pipe, checks the drainage at the outlet and leaves the trough clean. The quote is set by the stories and the tree cover before anyone gets on the ladder. A run like that can hide rot behind the fascia, and a bracket pulled loose is structural damage, so the crew checks both before anything else. Frankfort homes with that setup are priced the same way every time. Ask us for a price by text or phone, and send a photo of the front of the house if it is easy.
Our gutter cleaning service follows the same logic everywhere: the house sets the number, and a sag or a buildup in the trough tells us how much time the crew needs. Our process starts with the number, so the price is set before the ladder goes up. If you clean your gutters yourself, the same logic holds. Our regular gutter cleaning schedule keeps the work short, and many homeowners book the spring and fall visit to keep the trough clean. Residential and commercial jobs are both priced from the building itself, and residential properties are priced the same way.
| 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, one spring visit and one fall visit. Across Indiana, spring visits run late May to June, and our fall visit for homes in Frankfort in late October to November rounds out the year. In spring the gutter is packed with seed casings and pollen paste that blocks the elbows of the drain pipes. In fall it is the wet leaf mat that causes the clog, and on houses that skipped the fall visit we have found runs sagging under ice by March, since freezing is a real risk here. If your roofline sits under heavy trees, the schedule tightens to every three to four months, because needles and grit pack the drain pipes between visits. With few or no trees, one visit a year in late fall keeps a clean gutter running.
Surrounding areas have the same pattern, and the landscape around the house decides how quickly the trough fills again. Where the ground slopes toward the wall, rainwater that cannot leave the gutter runs down the fascia and the wall, and the blockage shows up first at the back run. Heavy rainfall exposes the weak spot fast. We flush every downspout on each visit and check that water actually leaves at the outlet, because a clean gutter with a clogged drain pipe still overflows in the next storm. Gutters and downspouts work together as one gutter system, and a leak at a seam tells us something is wrong before the stain shows up. That is how we keep your gutters working between cleanings and protect your home from water damage at the foundation.
After the first visit we tell you which tier your lot actually needs. On a house with no trees, the crew reports a clean rain gutter, the leaves and debris cleared off the eave, and a short list of anything else we photographed. On a house under heavy cover, we set the three-to-four month plan and show you the photos of what built up. Either way, the estimate for the next visit comes from what we found, not from a schedule printed on a brochure. Our gutter services are set around that first look.
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 across Frankfort, and once you book, the crew does the rest without a special trip on your end. Booking starts with a phone call or text about your stories, the size of the house, whether trees hang over the house and whether you have gutter guards. A photo of the front of the house helps us confirm the number before we come. Across Indiana, spring visits run late May to June, and our fall visits run late October to November, so those are the windows that fill first. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for the work. Call (866) 435-6328 to get your gutters on the schedule.
Our calendar fills in the two busy windows, so the earlier you book cleaning services in Frankfort in late October, the sooner a date opens up. Gutter maintenance is priced the same way: the house sets the time. If you have a question about the cleaning and maintenance schedule before you book, ask when you call. The crew can tell you how the tree cover on your lot changes the timing, and we will give you the next open date when we confirm the number. Once the trough is clean, the next visit is a shorter job, and the gutter cleaning process stays the same whether the job is spring or fall.
Two things make the difference on a booking: a clear view of the eave from the driveway, and a note about any clog or sag you have already seen. If you saw water pouring over the front edge in the last storm, tell us, because it changes the order the crew works in. Small details like these help us move through the job quickly and keep the cleaning a short visit for the homeowner.
Most of our customers book the spring visit, which across Indiana runs late May to June, and the fall visit, which runs late October to November. In spring we find seeds and pollen paste in the drain pipes. In fall we find the wet leaf mat, and with freezing a real risk here, ice can start at the eave before the gutter is clear.
Openings depend on the calendar, and we confirm the date when you call. We do not promise same-day work unless the calendar actually has an opening that day.
No. Our crew works outside, does not come inside, and sends photos of every run and drain pipe to your phone before the truck leaves. Leave the side gate unlocked and keep pets inside while the ladders are up, and the yard stays as clean as we found it.
Yes. We flush the drain pipes and check that water leaves at the outlet. Clearing a buried drain line is a separate job, and we price it before anyone touches it.
Yes. The number for a commercial building starts from its stories and size, the same way as a home, and the same photo check applies.
Yes, less often, but the surface still collects needles, seed casings and grit. We clean the top of the guard, check that water is getting in, and reseat the panels.
A gutter that is clean and still overflows in rain has a slope or drain problem, not a debris problem. Send us a photo or a short video of it in the rain, and we will tell you what it actually is. If a hanger has pulled loose, we report it rather than sell a second cleaning for it.
It should not. If the crew turns up something that changes the job, you hear it and agree to it before work starts, never after.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
