Our own crew cleans gutters in Birmingham, flushes the drains and flow-tests them, hauls everything away, and sends photos of every run before we leave. The price comes from your stories, your home's size and how much tree cover is over the house, and the number we give you on the phone is the number on the invoice. Birmingham homeowners often book in spring and fall, so calling early in those windows helps you get the date you want.
Quoted from stories, size and tree cover, over the phone, with nothing added once the crew is on the roof.
The price for Birmingham homes depends on how many stories the house has, its square footage and what is sitting in the gutters. We quote residential properties over the phone or by text from those three things, and the number we quote is the number we charge. Some gutter cleaning services price by the linear foot, but on our jobs the height and the buildup tell us more than the footage does. Call (866) 435-6328, or text a photo of the front of the house, and we will give you a firm number before anyone climbs a ladder.
What moves the quote is what the crew finds. A third story or a roof too steep to walk takes more time and more safety setup. A walk-out basement or a sloped lot raises the effective height of the roofline, so the back run sits higher than it looks from the yard. Gutters nobody has opened in years come out packed with compacted debris, and that takes longer than a light seasonal load. Guards we have to lift and reseat add time too. Flushing, flow testing and debris removal are included, and they are never billed as extras. If anything changes the job, you hear it and agree to it before work starts, never on the invoice.
Picture a homeowner with a two-story house, a heavy leaf load and a clog that has been building for two seasons. Water runs over the front edge in every hard rain, and a leak shows at the seam below the bend. The rain gutter is packed solid, and the clogged drains are backed up to the splash block, so the drainage has stopped altogether. After the flush, the drain carried water away from your home and out of the overflow line. Your number is your own, and it comes from the phone call.
| 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.
Across Michigan, spring visits run late May to June, and fall visits run late October to November. In Birmingham MI, many owners book one visit in spring after the seed and pollen drop, and one in fall after the last leaves come down. When we open a gutter in May we find seed casings and pollen paste packed into the elbows. In the fall it is a wet mass of leaves and debris, and on houses that skipped the fall visit we see runs that have sagged or pulled loose by March under the weight of the ice. That is the clog that turns into a gutter repair problem, and it starts with a clog nobody cleared.
Under heavy tree cover, with big trees over the house, regular gutter cleaning every three to four months keeps the drains clear, because needles and grit pack them between visits. A rain gutter under those trees fills faster than one with an open sky, and the rainwater backs up before anyone notices. With few or no trees in the landscape, once a year in late fall is usually enough as part of routine gutter maintenance. Near a busy road or a construction site the interval gets shorter too, since the grit settles fast. Gutter guards slow the buildup, but the surface still needs clearing, so guards push the schedule out only a little.
A house with no trees over it can go a year on one visit and still run clean through the winter. A house under a large canopy usually needs three or four cleanings a year to keep the drains clear. After the first visit we tell you which tier your lot actually needs, so you can keep your gutters clear through the winter without guessing.
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 and downspouts across Birmingham, and the crew works the homes on our route. We serve residential and commercial properties, so the quote is built the same way for both. Birmingham gutter cleaning starts with a quote by phone or text from your stories, your home's size and your tree cover, and a photo of the house front helps if it is easy to send. Lead time changes with the season, and in the busy windows of spring and fall our calendar fills first, so the sooner you call, the sooner we can set a date. To book a date, call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the house front. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for the visit.
Our gutter services cover the surrounding areas, and the neighborhoods we have cleaned are listed in the service areas block below. If your gutters are overflowing after heavy rainfall, tell us when you call. A blockage that has already reached the fascia and the soffit can cause a leak, rot or structural damage, and it is a faster job to schedule than a routine cleaning. Call us to get your gutters on the schedule, and we will tell you what we see and what it will cost before we start, so you can protect your home from water damage without guessing at the number.
Our cleaning services in Birmingham are quoted from your stories and your home's size, and we give the number to you by phone or text. We do not quote from a fixed figure, because the buildup on a two-story house can change the time a lot. Call (866) 435-6328 and we will give you a firm number.
Many Birmingham owners book in late spring and late fall, after the seed drop and again after the last leaves. If you wait past late fall, we find the wet leaf mat frozen in place, and that is when runs start to sag. A season-end visit before the first hard freeze is the simplest plan.
Our service runs on the crew's route each day, so most slots come up within the week and we confirm the date when you call. Same-day visits depend on that route, so the fastest way to know is to call or text a photo and we will say whether the gutters need a clean this week.
No, you do not need to be home. Our gutter cleaning process runs outside only: the crew does not come inside, and it sends photos of every run 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 flow-test it, and we check the outlet to see that water is leaving. A buried drain line that needs clearing is a separate job, and we quote it before anyone touches it. The drainage check at the outlet is included, and it confirms that water is running away from your home.
Yes. On our jobs a guarded gutter system keeps the leaves out but not the seed casings, the odd twig or the grit, which sit on top of the guard and turn into a mat. Cleaning and maintenance on a guarded system takes less time than on an open one, but we still clear the surface, flush the drains and check that water is getting in.
A gutter that is clean and still overflows in the rain has a slope or capacity problem, not a clog problem. Send us a photo or a short video in the rain and we will tell you what it is. We do not sell a second cleaning for a slope problem.
It should not. The number we quote on the phone is the number on the invoice. If the crew finds something that changes the job, you hear about it and agree to it before they start, never after.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
