Our own crew gives Cedar Rapids gutters a clean, full job, and every downspout gets flushed and flow-tested before we leave. Everything that comes out of the gutters is hauled away, not blown onto your lawn, and you get photos of every run on your phone. The price comes from your stories, your home's size and how much tree cover hangs over the roof, and the number we give you on the phone is the number on your invoice. Across Iowa, spring visits land in late May and June, and our calendar fills fastest in those months and again from October into early November. Call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the house front to book a date.
Quoted from stories, size and tree cover, over the phone, with nothing added once the crew is on the roof.
The price depends on how many stories the house has, its square footage and what is sitting in the gutters. Homeowners get a number by phone or text built from those three things, and a clean quote is the number we charge. Some gutter cleaning services price by the linear foot instead, which lands in a similar place once the length is counted.
On our jobs the things that move a quote are consistent. A third story or a roof too steep to walk takes more time on the ladder. A walk-out basement or a sloped lot raises the effective height of the roofline. A clog that has sat in an elbow for years means more time in the downspout, and that is priced in. Gutters nobody has opened in years come down packed with compacted material that has to be broken loose by hand, and a run that has begun to sag holds more standing water and takes longer to empty. Guards we have to lift and reseat add time as well. Downspout flushing, flow testing and debris removal are included and never billed as extras, which keeps the invoice clean, and flow testing is how we confirm drainage and water flow at the outlet. If something changes the job, you hear about it before work starts, never on the invoice.
Here is what we see on our jobs. One house we cleaned had heavy buildup in the back run and a downspout that had been draining poorly for a while, and the crew cleared it, flushed it and confirmed water was leaving at the outlet. That detail is what set the time on that visit. Every one of the Cedar Rapids homes we service gets the same check, whatever the neighborhood. If the home has heavy tree cover, the fill in the trough is the first thing we quote for. Clean gutters start with a clear picture of what is in them, and that is the picture we build your quote on. If you plan to clean your gutters yourself in spring and fall, call first, because a clog you cannot see from the ground is the one that sets the price. Regular gutter cleaning on residential and commercial buildings follows the same logic, and our gutter services cover the whole roofline, residential properties and commercial properties alike. Call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the house front to book a date.
| 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 Cedar Rapids IA customers book twice a year, once in spring and again in fall. Across Iowa, spring visits land in late May to June, after the seed and pollen drop, and fall visits in October to early November, once the last leaves are down. Each season starts with an estimate built from your stories and tree cover, and the pattern holds even when the weather shifts the timing a little.
In spring we find seeds, seed casings and pollen paste packed into the downspout elbows, and a clog there is what backs rainwater over the front edge. In fall it is the leaf load, and because freezing weather arrives here, the fall visit is when we keep your gutters clear enough to carry water into winter. May through July are the wettest months, so heavy rainfall tests every run in the warm season. Snow and ice start in November and run through April, and on houses that skipped the fall visit we see sagging runs and loose hangers by March. A clear roofline matters most going into that stretch.
Under heavy tree cover, every three to four months is the usual schedule, because needles and grit pack each downspout between visits, and a clean trough does not stay clean for long under that canopy. Near a busy road or active construction it is the same. With few or no trees, once a year in late fall is enough, and we flush every downspout on each visit to protect your home from water damage. Guarded gutters need fewer cleanings, but the rain gutter surface still needs clearing. Ice dams form at the eave when a blockage leaves rainwater nowhere to go, which is why a clean trough and clear gutters and downspouts matter so much going into winter. After the first visit we tell you which tier your lot actually needs.
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 Cedar Rapids and its surrounding areas from the nearest base, and we cover the city as a whole. Call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the house front, and we will build a quote from stories, size and tree cover. Lead time depends on the week, and we will tell you the first open date when you call. Our calendar fills in the two busy windows of the year, late spring and late fall, so booking early in those months keeps the choice of day.
Every Cedar Rapids gutter cleaning booking starts the same way, whether you are a first-time homeowner or already on a gutter maintenance schedule with us. A cleaning and maintenance visit checks for a leak at the joints, a twig jammed in a downspout, and a run that has lost its pitch. The first visit gives you a clean baseline to measure every visit after it. If you have gutter guards, we lift them and check underneath before we reseat them.
We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for a visit. Anyone wanting a clear picture of their gutter cleaning process can ask for it in writing with the estimate. For the full picture on keeping water away from your home, ask us what the first visit will check, and get your gutters on a schedule that fits your tree cover. The visit ends with a clean run, not a promise.
Our cleaning services in Cedar Rapids are priced from stories and size, and we give the number to you by phone or text. We do not quote a figure off a chart. The number we quote is the number on the invoice.
Most of our customers book in late spring and again in late fall. If the fall visit is skipped, we find sagging runs and ice-damaged hangers by March on the houses where that happens, and a rain gutter left sagging through winter is how structural damage and wood rot start.
Same-day depends on the week and on where the crew is working across Cedar Rapids. Most slots come up within the week, and you can call (866) 435-6328 to confirm the date.
No. Our crew works outside, does not come inside, and sends photos of every run and downspout to your phone before the truck leaves. Leave the side gate unlocked, keep pets inside while the ladders are up, and move any landscape pots off the ladder path.
Yes, every downspout is flushed, we confirm the water leaves at the outlet, and clogged downspouts get cleared before the crew leaves. Clearing a buried drain line is a separate job, quoted before anyone touches it.
Yes. Guards are part of the gutter system, and on our jobs they keep leaves and debris out but let seeds, needles and grit pack on top, so the surface still needs clearing, just less often.
If a clean gutter still spills over in rain, it is a slope or downspout problem, not debris. Send us a short video in the rain and we will tell you what it is. We do not sell a second cleaning for a slope issue.
Not without you hearing about it first. If the crew finds something that changes the job, you approve it before they start, and the invoice matches the quote. The same rule applies on commercial properties.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
