Our own crew cleans gutters in Macomb, with every downspout flushed and flow-tested, the clutter hauled away, and photos of every run before we leave. The price comes from the number of stories, the size of the house and the tree cover 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 keep the same crew on the ladder from the first visit to the last. Call (866) 435-6328 to book a slot. Macomb homeowners get the same crew and the same photo report whether or not anyone is home.
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 quote is the number we charge. Other companies price by the linear foot, which lands in a similar place once the stories and size are counted. Gutter cleaning services for Macomb homes are quoted the same way, and the condition of the gutter system sets how long a clean job runs. Commercial properties use the same three things, though the roof area is usually larger, so the quote usually runs higher.
On our jobs, the things that move a quote are consistent. A third story or a steep pitch you cannot walk takes more time on the ladder and a lift. A walk-out basement or a sloped lot raises the effective height of the eave. Gutters nobody has opened in years come out packed with compacted leaves and grit, which takes longer to clear. Guards we have to lift and reseat add time too. Downspout flushing, a water flow check at the outlet and haul-away are included and never billed as extras. Anything that changes the job gets raised with you before work starts, never on the invoice. Years of buildup can pack leaves and debris into the clogged downspouts, and water that cannot drain sits in the trough, the run can sag, and standing water can rot the fascia and cause structural damage over time. A clean run carries water away from the foundation, and a packed one does not.
Here is what that looks like on a real Macomb job. A house with a clog at the corner downspout had water running down the siding on one side, and the gutter sagged where the leaves had packed in. We cleared the run, flushed the downspout until it ran clear at the bottom, and photographed the sag so you could see it before we left. A homeowner usually notices drainage trouble only after the first hard rain, and a rain gutter that sags holds water right where it should not be. The crew only leaves once the run is clean. The clog was the reason the water went over the edge, and the flush was the reason it stayed away from your home. See that job here.
| 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 Macomb MI customers book spring and fall, twice a year: once in late May or June after the seed and pollen drop, and once in late October or November after the last leaves are down. When we open a gutter here in May we find seeds and pollen paste packed into the downspout elbows, and a clog forms there fast. In November it is a wet leaf mat, and on houses that skipped the fall visit we have seen runs that sagged under ice by March. Two cleanings a year is the schedule most of them keep. Across Michigan, the spring visit falls in late May to June and the fall visit in late October to November. Macomb's wettest months are May, July and August, and heavy rainfall in those months pushes leaves and grit into the gutters, so a clean gutter in May gives the storms less to back up against.
Under heavy tree cover, every three to four months is the schedule our crew sees working, because needles and grit pack the downspouts between visits and the rainwater backs up sooner. Houses with few or no trees are usually on once a year in late fall. Houses with guards still need the surface kept clean, but less often. Each gutter cleaning service visit we check the roofline and the blockage points, so an estimate on the next visit reflects what the gutter actually holds. If you are unsure when to clean your gutters, the seasons above are the answer for most homes. Missing a visit lets buildup turn into a leak at the seam, and a regular gutter cleaning schedule is the simplest gutter maintenance a house can have. The same rhythm holds for residential and commercial buildings under heavy tree cover, since rainwater behaves the same on either kind of roof. For residential properties, that means a visit after the leaves drop and another before the spring rains. Severe thunderstorms across Michigan dump heavy rainfall fast, and that is the storm a packed gutter fails in.
After the first visit we tell you which tier your lot actually needs, based on what we found in your gutters, and debris removal is part of every visit. Gutter services that stop at the first visit leave the next storm to find whatever was missed. A quick look from the ground between visits helps keep the trough clean.
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 have kept gutters clean across the Macomb area, and the crew covers the city as a whole from the nearest base. Booking is simple for any Macomb homeowner: you give us the number of stories, the approximate size and whether trees hang over the roof, and we send a quote by phone or text. If you have gutter guards, tell us when you call. A photo of the front of the house helps us confirm the estimate if it is easy for you to take. Gutter work across Macomb follows the same booking, and surrounding areas can book the same way. The crew works around the landscape, the beds and the driveway. Call (866) 435-6328 to get on the calendar.
The calendar fills in two busy windows, late spring and late fall, so the earlier you call, the easier it is to get the date you want. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for the visit. Every visit starts with a conversation, and that is how we keep your gutters working through the year. Clean gutters protect your home from water damage, and a regular schedule is what keeps the job small. A clear trough also stops a leak at the seam before it starts. We clear every twig out of the outlet before the flush, and our cleanings all run the same way. Our cleaning services in Macomb cover gutters and downspouts, and haul-away is included in the quote. We flush every downspout on each visit, and the crew leaves every downspout clean and photographed. Macomb gutter cleaning slots go fastest in spring and fall, and the gutter cleaning process runs the same way each time, from the quote to the photos on your phone. Our gutter services cover the flush, the haul-off and the photo report.
For a two-story house, our cleaning services in Macomb are priced from the square footage, the gutter system and what is in the gutters, and we give that number by phone or text. Call (866) 435-6328 and we will give you the number before the crew is scheduled.
Timing for a visit in Macomb falls into the two windows our customers book: late May or June for the spring visit, and late October or November for the fall visit. If you wait past the first hard freeze, the ice can already have stressed the runs, and a run that has already sagged may need more than regular gutter cleaning.
Same-day service depends on the slot. Most of our calendar across Macomb comes up within the week, and we confirm the date when you call. Call early if you want to get your gutters done before the spring rush.
You do not need to be home. Our crew works outside around the landscape, the beds and the driveway, and sends photos of every run and downspout to your phone before the truck leaves. The visit happens outside, and the photos show each run once it is clean.
Yes, we flush the downspouts and check where they drain, including the underground lines we can reach. Clearing a buried line is quoted separately before anyone touches it. We flush every downspout on the house, and a clean outlet at the bottom is how we know the water runs away from your home.
If your house has gutter guards, they still need the surface cleared. Under guards on our jobs we find leaves, seeds and grit sitting on top, and the wet paste underneath can start rot in the fascia. Gutter maintenance on a guarded system is still a regular visit, not a one-time job. Once the surface is clean, the guard goes back on.
If the gutters still overflow after we leave, it is usually a slope or capacity problem, not debris. Send us a photo or a short video in the rain and we will tell you what it is. Heavy rainfall shows the problem fastest, which is why the video helps.
The price does not change once the crew is up on the house unless we find something that changes the job, and we raise that with you before any work starts. Cleaning and maintenance pricing starts from the same three things as the quote: the stories, the size and what is in the gutters.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
