Our own crew cleans gutters across Ypsilanti MI, and the gutter cleaning process is the same on every visit: we flush every downspout, flow-test it, haul the mess away, and send you photos of every run before we leave, so you can see the clean result for yourself. The price comes from your stories, your square footage and how much tree cover hangs over the house, and the number we give on the phone is the number on your invoice. Most of our customers book in the spring and the fall, and we have been running that calendar across Michigan 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 how many stories the house has, how big the roof is 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, and that lands in a similar place once you do the math on your own house. The process starts with those three things and ends with the same number on the invoice. What moves the quote on our jobs is a third story or a steep pitch we cannot walk, a walk-out basement that puts the back run far up the wall, gutters nobody has opened in years, and gutter guards we have to lift and reseat before the gutter underneath can be cleared.
Flushing gutters and downspouts, flow testing and debris removal are included in the price and never billed as extras. Leaves and grit go into bags and leave away from your home with the truck, and the crew checks the drainage at each outlet. Every run is checked clean before the truck leaves, and most of our cleanings are plain cleaning and maintenance. If something changes the job once we are on site, you hear about it before work starts, never on the invoice. Ready to get your gutters priced? Call (866) 435-6328 and we will take the three things above over the phone.
On our local jobs the heaviest quotes come from houses with heavy tree cover, where the gutter gets packed with leaves and grit faster than the owner expects, and a twig lodged at the first elbow starts a clog. The clean ones are usually open lots where the gutter has only a light leaf load each year. Either way, send us a photo of the front of the house by text if that is easy, and tell us the three things above. That is enough for a real number, and it is the same number you will see on the invoice when we finish and the photos are on your phone.
| 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.
Our customers usually book twice a year. Across Michigan the spring visit runs from late May to June, after the seeds and pollen have dropped, and the fall visit runs from October to early November, after the last leaves are down. When we open a rain gutter here in May we find seeds, seed casings and pollen paste packed into the downspout elbows, and clogged downspouts at the first elbow are common. In November it is the wet leaves and debris mat, and on houses that skipped the fall visit we have seen runs that sag or pull loose by March under the weight of ice, and the fascia behind them starts to rot. That is the structural damage a fall clean prevents. The freeze and snow months last long enough that the fall clean is the one that protects the gutter system through winter.
Under heavy tree cover, with big trees overhanging the gutters, our customers are on every three to four months, because needles and grit end up inside the downspout and a clog forms at its bottom. Heavy rainfall lands in May, June and July, the wettest months here, with about 37.9 inches of precipitation a year, so rainwater has to leave the gutter and the downspout has to carry water away from the foundation. On a landscape with few or no trees, once a year in late fall is enough for most lots, and a clean run in November stays clean all winter. Guards change the schedule a little, since they keep the bulk of the leaves out, but gutter maintenance does not stop: the surface still needs a clean and every downspout still needs flushing.
After the first clean, we tell you which tier your lot actually needs, based on what we found in the gutter rather than a schedule printed on a card, and how to keep your gutters clear between visits.
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 covers Ypsilanti homes and surrounding areas from the nearest base, booking residential and commercial properties alike. Our gutter cleaning services run on one shared calendar, and every request for cleaning services in Ypsilanti goes onto it. To get a slot, call (866) 435-6328 or text a quote request with your stories, your approximate size and whether trees hang over the house, and send a photo of the house front if that is easy. Lead time depends on the season, and during the busy windows of spring and fall the calendar fills first, so it helps to book early. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for the visit.
If you have more than one property, we can schedule the visits together. Once you are on the calendar, a regular gutter cleaning service keeps grit and leaf buildup from backing up the gutter between visits, and you get the same crew and the same photo record after every clean, which makes it easy to see what changed since the last clean. Our gutter services work the same way on residential properties and commercial properties, so the method is identical whether you want to clean your gutters once or on a schedule.
Every homeowner asks this first, and the number comes from how many stories the house has and how big the roofline is, plus what is in the gutters. Any estimate we give by phone or text is the number on the invoice.
Across Michigan the spring visit falls from late May to June, and our customers usually book the fall visit for October or early November. If you wait past the fall visit, we find sagging runs and ice-loaded gutters by March on the houses that skipped it. Booking the fall visit is the cheapest way to keep your gutters clear and protect your home from water damage.
We confirm the date when you call, and most slots come up within the week during the busy seasons. We will not promise a same-day visit that the calendar cannot hold.
No. Our crew works outside, does not come inside, and sends photos of every run and downspout to your phone before the truck leaves. Ladder stand-offs and clear access help us protect your home while we work, so leave the side gate unlocked and keep pets inside while the ladders are up.
Yes, we flush every downspout and check the water flow through it, and we confirm that rainwater is leaving at the outlet. Clearing an underground drain line is a separate job, quoted before anyone touches it.
Yes. On our jobs guards keep the whole leaves out, but needles, seed casings and grit sit on top of the guard and turn to paste, which can start a leak at the seam. So the surface still needs clearing and every downspout still needs flushing.
A clean gutter that still spills over the edge in rain usually has a slope or downspout-size problem, not a blockage left behind in the trough. Send us a short video of it in the rain and we will tell you what it is, without selling you a second cleaning.
It should not. Anything that changes the job is raised and agreed before work starts, so the number you were quoted is the number on the invoice.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
