Our own crew cleans gutters in Oshtemo, every downspout flushed and flow-tested, debris hauled away, and photos of every run before we leave. The price comes from stories, size and tree cover, and the number we give you on the phone is the number on the invoice. Most of our Oshtemo homeowners book in spring and fall, and we have been doing it that way for years.
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 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 gutter cleaning services price by the linear foot, which lands in a similar place per run, but we would rather give you one number for the whole house.
On our jobs, a few things move the quote. A third story or a steep roof that cannot be walked changes how we work it. A walk-out basement or sloped lot raises the effective height of the roofline. Gutters that have not been opened in years arrive packed with compacted leaf mat, grit and the odd twig, and guards we have to lift and reseat take extra time. Downspout flushing, flow testing and debris removal are included and never billed as extras. Our crew will flush every downspout and clear the buildup out of the elbows before they leave. If anything changes the job, you hear about it before work starts, never on the invoice.
Last spring on a two-story house off a gravel drive, the back run had a leaf mat two inches deep and a downspout that would not clear from the bottom, so we worked it from the top. That is the kind of find that moves a job, and we tell you about it on the phone before we ever climb up. The same applies to the Oshtemo homes with heavy canopy overhead, where the clog builds faster than the calendar suggests. Regular gutter cleaning keeps the water flow and drainage moving and keeps water away from the foundation. In our experience that is the least expensive kind of gutter maintenance, and it is the surest way we know to keep a sag or a leak from starting. Residential properties and residential and commercial sites both get the same straight answer from us. Whether you need to clean your gutters now or after the next storm, call (866) 435-6328 for your quote, or text a photo of the front of the house and we will tell you what we see.
| 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 in Oshtemo MI book their cleanings twice a year: late May or June, after the spring seed and pollen drop, and 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 elbows. In late fall it is the wet leaf mat, and on houses that skipped the fall visit we see runs sagging by March under the weight of ice.
Freeze season is the reason the fall visit matters here. Snow and ice sit on the roofline from roughly January through April, and water that cannot drain at the eave turns to ice dams. A clog or buildup caught in November is a twenty-minute job; the same clog in March is a blockage behind a frozen seam. Keep your rain gutter clear before the first hard freeze and the rainwater has somewhere to go, away from your home.
Under heavy tree cover, every three to four months is the schedule that holds, because needles and grit pack clogged downspouts between visits. Few or no trees, once a year in late fall is enough for most lots. Gutter guards change the frequency but not the need: the surface still gets cleared. Gutters and downspouts on a busy road or near construction need the closer schedule too, especially after heavy rainfall. Clean your gutters on time and the gutter system will protect your home from water damage without you thinking about it again until the next visit. After the first visit we give you an estimate of which tier your lot actually needs.
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 across Oshtemo and the surrounding areas, and cleans from the nearest base, so most homes here get a visit inside the window we quote. Booking starts with a call or a text: we ask for stories, approximate size and whether trees hang over the roof, and a photo of the house front helps if it is easy to send. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for the work itself, which leaves the yard as clean as we found it. The two busy windows are spring and fall, so a booking made in those months may take a little longer to land on the calendar. Commercial properties get the same photo report as a house, and every one of our gutter services runs through the same crew.
Plan on a clean, homeowner-friendly visit from the first call through the photos on your phone. If your gutters are backed up with leaves and twigs, the sooner the clog comes out the less water sits against the fascia, and the less chance there is for rot to start. Ask us about the Oshtemo gutter cleaning process if you want the steps before you commit. We will keep the schedule honest and give you a date you can count on, and a leak or sag we find on the visit goes into the photo report with a plain description, not a sales pitch. Get your gutters on a schedule that matches the trees over your roof, and handle the rest of your cleaning and maintenance with one call to (866) 435-6328.
The number comes from stories and size, and we give it by phone or text. Our cleaning services in Oshtemo are quoted that way for every house, and we do not put a range on the page because every house is different. The figure you hear is the figure you pay. Anything that changes the job is raised before the crew starts.
Most of our customers here book late May or June and then late October or November. If you wait until winter, the leaf mat and the first ice have already done their work, and the spring seeds have packed the elbows. The spring and fall visits are the ones that hold through freeze season.
Most slots come up within the week, and we confirm the exact date when you call. If a same-day opening exists we will say so on the phone, but we do not promise it in advance.
No. The 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.
Yes, every downspout is flushed and flow-checked at the outlet, and we clean the elbows so nothing blocks the flow at the top. If water is not leaving through a buried line, we tell you. Clearing an underground drain is a separate job and it is quoted before anyone touches it.
Yes. Guards keep whole leaves out, but needles, seed casings and grit still sit on top and mat down until rain runs over the front edge. We lift the panels, clean underneath and reseat them. Guarded gutters usually run on a longer schedule than open ones.
A clean gutter that still sheets water over the edge in rain has a slope or downspout-size problem, not a cleaning problem. Send us a photo or a short video taken in the rain and we will tell you what it is. If the run is sagging or pulling off the fascia, that is structural damage, and we report it in the photos rather than sell a repair. Water that washes out a landscape bed points to the same slope or downspout problem, and we say so. We do not sell a second cleaning for a slope issue.
It should not. If the crew finds something that changes the job, you hear it and agree to it before they start, not after. The number we quote 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.
