Our own crew cleans gutters in Hazel Park, and every downspout gets flushed and flow-tested before we leave. A homeowner gets the gutters and downspouts checked as one system, not one run at a time. Leaves and grit are hauled off the property, not blown onto the lawn, and you get photos of every run on your phone. The price comes from the number of 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. Plenty of homeowners book spring and fall visits with us, and regular gutter cleaning helps protect your home from water damage year after year.
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, and we give an estimate over the phone or by text from those three things. The number we quote is the number we charge. Our gutter cleaning services for commercial properties are priced the same way, from stories, size and buildup, and quoted before anyone climbs. Some companies price by the linear foot and land in a similar place, but we would rather you see a clean, whole figure before a ladder goes up.
On our jobs, a few things move the quote. A third story or a roof too steep to walk needs more equipment and more time. 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 driveway. Gutters nobody has opened in years come down packed with leaves and debris that has set into a mat, and that takes longer to clear than a light fall. Guards we have to lift and reseat add time as well. Downspout flushing, flow testing and debris removal are included in the price and are never billed as extras. If something changes the job, you hear about it and agree to it before work starts, never on the invoice.
Our crew has worked on a lot of Hazel Park homes, and the quotes that climbed most were the ones with heavy leaf loads and a clog sitting in the lower run. Clogged downspouts that back water up add time to a quote, and one home had a gutter pulled slightly out of line with a sag in the middle, which held water and added time to the job. That was flagged on the phone before we booked. Those are the usual reasons, and the phone call tells you which of them apply to your house. Water that never reaches the drainage outlet can sit against the wall, rot the trim and cause structural damage, so we would rather find it early. The photo of the front of the house by text helps us see the roofline before we arrive, and it shows us the rain gutter run and where the water flow goes. Water away from the foundation matters more than the number on the bill, so we are happy to walk through what we see before we start.
| 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, our customers usually book two visits a year to keep their gutters clean: late May to June, after the seed and pollen drop, and late October or November, after the last leaves are down. The timing shifts with the weather each year. Homeowners in Hazel Park MI who set a schedule for regular gutter cleaning usually book both visits, because it costs less than repairing a fascia board.
In spring the blockage is seeds, seed casings and pollen paste packed into the downspout elbows. In fall it is the leaf load, a twig or two and the wet mat it turns into. Michigan winters are cold and snowy, and on houses that skipped the fall visit we find runs that have sagged under ice by March. A clog left through winter does not go away by itself, and the drainage path stays blocked, so the rainwater has nowhere to go but over the edge. That is how a small leak turns into structural damage behind the fascia. Heavy rainfall arrives in May, June and July, the wettest months here, and it tests the same runs again. If you only book one visit, clean your gutters in late fall, when the leaf load is heaviest.
Our tiers are simple. Twice a year covers most houses, and the same schedule works for residential and commercial properties with similar roofs. Under heavy tree cover, or near a busy road or construction, we are back every three to four months, because needles and grit pack into the gutters between visits. With few or no trees, one full clean each year in late fall is enough for most residential properties. Guards need less frequent visits, but the surface still gets cleared. After the first visit we tell you which tier your lot actually needs. Repeat cleanings are planned from that visit, so the next one starts from what we found last time.
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 from the nearest base and covers the surrounding areas on the same schedule. A Hazel Park gutter cleaning starts with a quote by phone or text from stories, size and tree cover, and a photo of the house front if it is easy to send. Call (866) 435-6328 to start, and we will walk you through the rest. Every gutter system gets the same routine across Hazel Park: runs left clean, every downspout flushed and photos taken before the truck leaves. Lead time depends on the calendar, and the two busy windows, late spring and late fall, fill first. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for the visit.
Homeowners who book early keep their preferred slot and avoid waiting out a storm season. If your gutters overflowed after a heavy rain, tell us when you call so we can plan the first visit around it. The crew would rather flush every downspout on the first pass and leave a clean run than come back for a clog that could have been caught in one trip, and that approach has kept many homes from water damage over time. Keep your gutters clean between visits by watching for water over the edge, and call us about any leak. Our gutter services and our cleaning and maintenance visits follow the same checklist, whatever the tree cover.
The number comes from how many stories the house has and its size, and we give it to you by phone or text before we book. Downspout flushing and haul-off are in that number. If anything changes once we see the roofline, we tell you before work starts. Call (866) 435-6328 for that quote.
Most of our customers here book in late May or June after the spring seed drop, and again in late October or November after the leaves are down. If the fall visit gets skipped, we find sagging runs by March on the houses that waited through the freeze.
Our cleaning services in Hazel Park run on the calendar that week, so same-day depends on the date you call. Most slots come up within the week during the quieter months.
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 and keep pets inside while the ladders are up, and keep the landscape beds clear of ladder feet. The work stays outside, away from your home's interior.
Yes, every downspout is flushed as part of our gutter cleaning process, and we check that water is leaving at the outlet. If a buried drain line needs clearing, that is a separate job and we quote it before touching it.
Yes, though less often. On our jobs we find grit and seed casings sitting on top of the guard, and once that mat gets wet, rain runs over the front edge. Guards still need gutter maintenance, so we clear the surface and reseat the panels.
A gutter that is clean and still spills water in the rain has a slope or downspout-size problem rather than a cleaning problem. Send us a photo or short video of it in the rain and we tell you what it is. We do not sell a second cleaning for a slope problem.
It should not. The number we quote is the number we charge, so you can get your gutters booked without a surprise on the invoice. If the crew finds a condition that changes the job, you hear it before work starts and agree to the change then.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
