Our own crew cleans gutters for Grosse Pointe Park homeowners, flushes every downspout and flow-tests it, hauls the mess off, and photographs every run before we leave, so you can see the clean result for yourself. The price comes from your stories, your home's size and how much tree cover is over the roof, and the number we give you on the phone is the number on your invoice. Most of our customers book in spring and fall, and we work around your schedule.
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. We quote it over the phone or by text from those three things, and the number we give you is the number we charge. Some gutter cleaning services price by the linear foot, which lands in a similar place per foot of run, but we price the whole house so you know the total before we come out. Commercial properties get the same treatment, with the total set before the truck rolls.
On our jobs at Grosse Pointe Park homes, the things that move the quote are a third story or a roof too steep to walk, a walk-out basement that puts the back run well up in the air, gutters nobody has opened in years where the leaves and debris have packed into a solid mass, and guards we have to lift and reseat before we can clear underneath. Downspout flushing, flow testing and haul-away are included and never billed as extras. If something changes the job once we are on site, we raise it before work starts, so the clean number on your invoice matches the number we gave you.
Here is what we have seen on our jobs. A homeowner on a two-story house with a heavy clog in the rear run had water sitting in the trough and spilling over the back edge during every rain. The buildup had turned into a sag that held standing water, and the clogged downspouts were backing it up. We flush every downspout until the water runs clear at the bottom, check the drainage at the outlet, and watch the water flow come back. Standing water that long can cause structural damage to the fascia, so our crew cleared the blockage and photographed each run so the homeowner could see the clean result before the truck left. The price was set by the stories and what we heard on the phone call, and the invoice matched it.
If your rain gutter is packed or your downspout is blocked, text us a photo of the house and we can give you a firm number from it, a clean price with no surprises at the door. Water away from your home is the goal, so call (866) 435-6328 and we will walk you through the quote.
| 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 in spring and fall, because a gutter cleaning service visit before the heavy seasons keeps water moving. Across Michigan, spring visits usually fall in late May to June, and by then we find seed casings packed into the downspout elbows and pollen paste sitting in the trough. The fall visit lands in late October to November, when a wet leaf mat holds water at the edge. Winters here freeze, and we get about 27.9 inches of snow a year, mostly from December through March, so a house that skipped the fall visit can have runs sagging under ice by March. A clean trough going into the wettest months keeps water moving.
For residential and commercial buildings under heavy tree cover, or near busy roads and construction where grit blows into the gutter, regular gutter cleaning every three to four months is the usual plan, because needles and grit pack the trough between visits. Residential properties with few or no trees over the roofline can usually go once a year in late fall. Guards cut the frequency down, but the surface still needs clearing, and debris removal is part of every visit. Clean your gutters on that schedule and the surrounding areas stay dry.
Every gutter we open is different, and the rainwater path matters as much as what sits in the trough. Grosse Pointe Park MI gets about 35.8 inches of precipitation a year, and heavy rainfall in May, June and August is when a clog first shows up. A clog at a bend can back water up to the roofline and leave a blockage that looks fine from the ground. A clean run is not the same as a working run. After the first visit we tell you which tier your lot actually needs, and you get an estimate from what we found on your own house. Book a slot by calling (866) 435-6328 or by asking for a written estimate through our site.
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.
Booking Grosse Pointe Park gutter cleaning is simple, and our crew works the streets here, leaving a clean trough on every kind of house. Every homeowner gets the same steps. You give us your stories, your approximate square footage and whether trees hang over the roof, and if it is easy, a photo of the front of the house sent by text. We use that to quote the job, and then we set a date that works for you.
Our calendar fills in the two busy windows of the year, late spring and late fall, so booking early keeps your slot. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for the visit. A small leak at a seam can soak the fascia, so if you want to protect your home from water damage before the next storm, our crew can usually fit you in quickly. We confirm the date when you call. Call (866) 435-6328 to get your gutters on the schedule, or text a photo of your gutters and we will tell you what we see.
Our gutter services cover the full gutter system, and cleanings are priced as one visit, from the gutters and downspouts to the ground. Any gutter guards are lifted so the crew can clear underneath, and a twig in the trough gets pulled by hand. We flush every downspout, check the water is leaving the outlet, and keep your gutters clean enough that rain runs off, not over. Work near the surrounding areas and the landscape beds is kept clear of debris, and the crew does not dump anything there.
Our quote for cleaning services in Grosse Pointe Park comes from the stories, the size of the house and what is sitting in the gutters. We give you a firm figure by phone or text, and it is the number on the invoice.
Most of our customers across Grosse Pointe Park book in late spring and late fall, after the seed drop and after the leaves come down. Across Michigan the spring visit falls in late May to June, and the time to clean your gutters is before the heavy rainfall of May, June and August. Waiting past the first hard freeze in winter, when the fall visit gets skipped, is when we tend to find runs sagging by March.
We confirm the exact date when you call. If you need something sooner, ask us on the phone and we will tell you what we have to get your gutters on the schedule.
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, clear a path past the landscape beds, and keep pets inside while the ladders are up.
Yes, we flush and flow-test each downspout until the water runs clean at the bottom, and the goal is water away from your home. If a line drains underground, we check that water is leaving at the outlet and tell you if it is not; clearing a buried line is priced separately.
Yes, though less often. Needles and seed casings sit on top of the guard, and grit settles underneath, so we lift the panels, clear beneath them, reseat them, and leave the trough clean. Gutter maintenance with guards is a shorter job, but the gutter system still gets it.
A gutter that is clean and still overflowing in rain usually has a slope or downspout-size problem rather than a blocked run. Left wet, the fascia and soffit can rot, so send us a photo or short video in the rain and we will tell you what it is.
Only if something changes the job, and we tell you before any work starts. Cleaning and maintenance visits are quoted once, and the gutter cleaning process ends with photos of every run. The number we give you on the phone is the number on the invoice.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
