Our own crew cleans gutters in Madison Heights, flushing every downspout, testing the flow, bagging the leaves and sending photos of every run before we leave. 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 the invoice. Across Michigan, most of the homes we clean book in the spring and fall, when the seed drop and the leaf load are at their heaviest.
Quoted from stories, size and tree cover, over the phone, with nothing added once the crew is on the roof.
The price depends on stories, square footage and what is in the gutters, and we give you the number over the phone or by text from those three things. The number we give you is the number we charge. To get your number, call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the front of the house. Other gutter cleaning services that price by the linear foot land in a similar place per foot of run, but on our jobs the stories and the access matter more than the length.
What moves the quote is what the crew finds on the ladder. A third story or a roof too steep to walk takes longer and needs a boom or scissor lift. A walk-out basement or a sloped lot raises the effective height of the roofline. Gutters that have not been opened in years come out packed with buildup, a solid clog of compacted leaves, and guards we have to lift and reseat add time. Downspout flushing, water flow testing and haul-off are included in the price and never billed as extras. If anything changes the job, you hear about it before work starts, never on the invoice.
On our Madison Heights jobs, the one that moved the price most was a two-story house with heavy tree cover, where the back run was packed with leaves and a clogged downspout ran slow until we flushed it from the top. The crew had to clear the compacted leaves from the rain gutter in three passes, which is the kind of work that shows up in the estimate before we arrive. Most homes here are not that bad, and our crew finds the same pattern on the rest: the drainage is fine until the leaves and grit stop the water from draining away from your home. Commercial properties with flat roofs get a separate price per building, and Madison Heights homes get the same straight number. Structural damage from a sag or a rot line costs far more to fix than a cleaning costs to prevent, and that is the first thing we check.
| 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, most homes book twice a year, in late May or June after the seed and pollen drop, and in late October or November after the last leaves. When we open a gutter here in May we find seeds and pollen paste packed into the elbows, and in November the wet leaf mat. Freeze risk is real here, so a gutter that skipped the fall clean is the one we find sagging by March, pulled loose from the fascia under the weight of ice.
Homes under heavy tree cover get a gutter clog check every three to four months between cleanings, because the needles and grit pack the downspout fast. Houses with few or no trees do well with one clean a year in late fall. Gutters with gutter guards need less frequent cleaning, but debris removal from the surface still happens on the same schedule, since the mat that forms on top is what stops the water from getting in. A twig or a clump of leaves on the roofline can cause a blockage that holds rainwater at the eave, and nobody sees it from the driveway, so we photograph it on every visit.
After the first visit we tell you which tier your lot actually needs. Each estimate we send names the months we would come back, and the calendar gets set from there. Clean your gutters on that rhythm, and the regular service stays a short visit instead of a rescue, which is the whole point of the schedule. Residential properties and residential and commercial sites are both on the same book in Madison Heights MI, so we keep the dates straight.
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 has cleaned gutters across Madison Heights, and we cover the whole city from the nearest base without treating any one street as a special case. To book a Madison Heights gutter cleaning, call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the front of the house, along with your stories, your size and whether trees hang over the roof. Our gutter cleaning process runs from that: a quote on the spot, and then the calendar. The two busy windows for our gutter services are late spring and late fall, so if you want a slot in either, book early.
We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home. Keep the side gate open and the pets inside while the crew is on the ladders to clean the run. Booking gutter maintenance ahead keeps the leaves from building up into a blockage, catches any leak at a seam before it reaches the fascia, and helps you protect your home from water damage. That is how you keep your gutters clear, and the water stays away from the house, which is what a homeowner wants from the visit. Our work also covers the surrounding areas, including the gutters and downspouts on the next house down, so if a neighbor on your block has water coming over the edge, the same crew can come out to them in the same trip.
The number comes from the stories and the size of the house, and we give it to you by phone or text. We do not quote a figure without those, because a two-story house with heavy trees and a house with no trees can differ a great deal on the same street.
Across Michigan, customers book in late May or June, and again in late October or November. If you wait past the first hard freeze, we find the ice and sagging runs by March. The spring visit matters because heavy rainfall lands hardest in May, June and July, and that is when a plugged run shows first, so it is the easiest time to get your gutters checked.
Most slots come up within the week, and we confirm the exact date when you call. Our cleaning services in Madison Heights fill fastest in late May and late October, so we do not promise same-day unless we have an open crew that morning.
No. We call before we come, our crew works outside around the landscape and does not come inside, and photos of every run arrive on your phone before the truck leaves.
Yes, we flush every downspout and check that the water leaves at the outlet. A buried line that needs clearing is a separate job, and we quote it before anyone touches it.
Yes. Guards cut the work, but they do not end it, so cleaning and maintenance still happen on a schedule. What we find under guards on our jobs is needles, grit and seed casings sitting on top of the guard, and once that mat is wet the water runs off the front edge. We clean the surface and reseat the guards, and the gutter system drains again.
A clean gutter that still spills in rain has a slope or downspout-size problem, not a debris problem. Send us a photo or a short video in the rain, and we tell you what it is. We do not sell a second cleaning for a slope problem.
Only if something changes the job, and in that case you hear about it and agree to it before the crew starts. The number we quote is the number on the invoice.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
