Our own crew cleans gutters in Eden Prairie, MN, with every gutter run flushed and flow-tested, everything hauled away, and photos of each 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 Minnesota, most of our customers book for the spring and fall visits, and the same crew handles both.
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. Our cleanings are quoted over the phone or by text from those three things, and the number we quote is the number we charge. Eden Prairie homeowners often compare us with other gutter cleaning services, and some cleaning services in Eden Prairie price by the linear foot. That lands in a similar place once you run the numbers on a typical home, though it can drift on a house with a lot of corners. Either way, ask for the total before anyone sets a ladder.
What moves the quote on our jobs is usually the same handful of things. A third story, or a steep roofline, means the crew works from a boom or scissor lift instead of a ladder, and that takes more time. A walk-out basement or a sloped lot puts the back run higher than it looks from the yard, and a clog or a leak in that run is harder to reach. Gutters nobody has opened in years come out packed with compacted muck, and it takes longer to get them clean. A set of gutter guards we have to lift and reseat adds time to the job too. Our gutter cleaning process covers all of the gutters and downspouts, includes haul-away of everything we pull out, and we flush every run and flow-test it, so none of that is billed as an extra. If anything we find changes the job, you hear about it before work starts, never on the invoice, so the invoice stays as clean as the gutters.
Eden Prairie homes with heavy tree cover tend to fill up faster than homes in the open, because needles, grit and the odd twig wash down with the rain and pack the elbows. Heavy rainfall in June, July and August moves that load faster, so the back run often takes more time than the front. Two large trees over the back roof and none on the front can make the back run decide the quote. Every home is different, so the honest answer is the one we give on the phone. Call (866) 435-6328 or text us a photo of the front of the house and we will tell you what it takes to get your gutters clean. The point is to get water away from your home, and that starts with a quote that matches the house.
| 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.
Gutter cleaning services in Eden Prairie usually mean two visits a year. Most of our customers book for spring and fall, once in the spring after the seeds and pollen have come down, and once in the fall after the last leaves drop. Across Minnesota the spring visit runs mid to late June, and across Eden Prairie, MN the fall visit runs October to early November. In spring we find seeds, seed casings and pollen packed into the buildup at the elbows, and clogged downspouts are the first thing to check. In fall it is the leaf load, and with winters that freeze hard, the first ice and the ice dams it leaves at the eave. Eden Prairie gets about 31 inches of precipitation a year, and most of the heavy rainfall lands in June, July and August, so the gutters work hardest in summer. Snow totals about 55 inches a year, and leaves and debris left in the trough freeze into a solid mass by midwinter. Our goal on each visit is to leave the trough clean and to flush each run until it runs clear. On houses that skipped the fall visit we have seen runs that sagged or pulled loose by March, which is an expensive way to learn the gutter was full, and a run that will sag can lead to structural damage, and the fascia behind it can rot.
How often a particular house needs us depends on the trees around it. Under heavy tree cover, we see customers on a three to four month schedule, because needles and grit pack the joints between visits, and regular gutter cleaning is what keeps the outlets open. A house near a busy road or a construction site gets the same treatment, since dust and grit wash into the rain gutter with every storm, and a clean trough does not stay clean for long. A lot with few or no trees is usually fine on one visit a year in late fall, as long as the landscape and drainage send rainwater away from the foundation. Gutter guards change the work but not the need: we still clear the surface litter on top of the guard, check the water is getting in and look for a leak at the joints. Gutter maintenance is what the schedule is for, so keep your gutters clean between visits.
Two houses on the same block can need different schedules. A house in the open might only need one visit a year, while one under a full canopy might need a visit every three to four months. The photos from each visit go to the same phone number so you can compare. After the first visit we tell you which schedule your lot actually needs. Ask us about the gutter system on your home and we will show you what we found on the first run. Staying on that schedule is what keeps the home from water damage, because a run that stays clear sends water away from the fascia and out through the outlets. If you want to clean your gutters yourself between visits, start by clearing the leaves and litter off any guard first.
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 gutter cleaning service covers Eden Prairie homes from the nearest base, and it works the same way across Eden Prairie. Homes in the surrounding areas are quoted the same way. Booking starts with a quote by phone or text, based on stories, home size and tree cover, plus a photo of the house front if that is easy for you to send. Lead time depends on the day's route, so we give you a window when you call rather than promising a slot we cannot keep. The two busiest stretches of the year are late spring and late fall, so if you want a particular week, book early.
We call before we come and nobody needs to be home for exterior work. The crew sets stand-offs on every ladder, keeps the work off the gutter lip, clears any clog it finds, checks water flow at each outlet and handles debris removal before the truck leaves, so the run is left clean. Our cleaning and maintenance visits run the same way every time. Commercial properties are handled on a separate schedule, and the same crew does our residential and commercial work with the same photos at the end. Residential properties get the same care, and any homeowner who wants to see how a visit goes before committing can ask for photos from a recent job on a house like theirs.
Our gutter services in Eden Prairie MN are priced from how many stories the house has and its size, and we give the number by phone or text. There is no fixed figure we can print here without seeing the house, so call (866) 435-6328 and we will give you an estimate.
Most of our customers book in late spring and again in late fall, and the fall visit runs October to early November. Booking the fall visit is the easiest way to protect your home, and it keeps water damage off the fascia. If you wait past the fall visit, what we find in March is sagged or pulled runs, and on a freezing winter that cost is far higher than the cleaning.
Same-day depends on the route that day, and we cover the surrounding areas the same way. Most slots come up within the week, and we confirm the date when you call.
No. Our crew works outside and does not come into the house. Leave the side gate unlocked and keep pets inside while the ladders are up.
Yes, we flush every downspout and flow-test it, and we check that water leaves at the outlet. Clearing a blockage in a buried drain line is a separate job, and we quote it before anyone touches it.
Yes, on our jobs we find surface debris sitting on top of the guards and needles packed underneath. A guard that looks clean from the ground can still hide needles, and a steep roofline makes that harder to check, so the job is shorter with guards, but it is not gone.
A gutter that is clean and still spills rainwater over the edge has a slope or capacity problem, not a clog problem. Tell us what it does in the rain, with a short clip if you can, and we will tell you what it is, so you can protect the home from water damage.
It should not. Anything that changes the job is raised before work starts, and you agree to it before the crew goes further. Call (866) 435-6328 to talk it through.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
