Our own crew cleans gutters in Fridley, every downspout flushed and flow-tested, everything hauled away, and photos of every run before we leave. The price comes from the number of stories, the size of the house and how much tree cover hangs over the house, and the number we give on the phone is the number on the invoice. Across Minnesota, most of our customers book in the spring and the fall, and we keep those visits on the calendar before the busy weeks fill.
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. Our cleaning services in Fridley are quoted over the phone or by text from those three things, and the number we quote is the number we charge. Some companies price by the linear foot, which lands in a similar place once the house is measured, but we would rather give you one number from the three things we can see from the driveway. Every homeowner gets that same quote, and it is where the gutter cleaning process starts.
What moves the quote on our jobs is usually what the crew finds once the ladder is up. 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 eave line. Gutters that have not been opened in years come down packed with compacted buildup and the odd twig, and gutter guards we have to lift and reseat add time to every run. A clean run takes less time than a packed one, and a clog or blockage at the bottom of a downspout adds time too, because the crew has to clear it from the top. Gutter cleaning and maintenance on an older house is quoted the same way. Downspout flushing, flow testing and debris removal are included and are never billed as extras. Clear gutters move water away from your home, and that is the work we price for. Anything that changes the job is raised before work starts, never on the invoice.
On one of our local jobs, a customer with a two-story house and heavy tree cover had the crew out on a spring visit. The back run was packed with seed casings and pollen paste, and two downspouts needed to be flushed from the top before water ran clean at the bottom. You can read that job here: link supplied in case data. If your house looks similar, text a photo of the front of it so we can get your gutters priced before we ever send a crew. Call (866) 435-6328 for a written estimate, or text a photo of the gutters so we can see them first.
| 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 book two cleanings a year, once in the spring after the seed and pollen drop, and once in the fall after the last leaves come down. When we open a gutter here in May, we find seed casings and pollen paste packed into the elbows of each downspout. A gutter that looks clean from the driveway can still be full at the back run, which is why we open every run. When we open one in the fall, we find the wet leaf mat, leaves and grit packed tight, and on houses that skipped the fall visit, runs that have pulled loose or sagged by March under the weight of ice. A leak at a seam is usually the first sign a run has sagged. The fall visit usually lands in October to early November, before the freeze sets in. That is the pattern we see across Minnesota, and it is why the fall visit matters here.
Under heavy tree cover, we see customers on a schedule of every three to four months, because needles and grit pack the clogged downspouts between visits and the gutter system stops moving water away from the house. A clean run holds up for a while, but under heavy tree cover it fills again inside a few months. Houses with few or no trees near the roof, and little landscape right at the eave, usually need only one visit a year in late fall. Gutters with guards still need to be checked, and we clear the surface of the guard at each visit, but they come up less often. Drainage away from the foundation is the point of all of it, and the schedule should match what your lot actually drops. The wettest months, May, June and July, bring heavy rainfall that tests every run hardest, and a clog that sits through those months can turn into structural damage, with the fascia behind a full gutter starting to rot. Rainwater that has nowhere to go runs down the siding and pools at the foundation, when it should be carried away from your home. Regular gutter maintenance costs less than replacing rotted fascia. A full rain gutter overflows at the first hard storm. Older Fridley homes with tall eaves are where the earlier visit pays off most.
After a clean first visit, we tell you which tier your lot actually needs. Text a photo of the roofline, and we will tell you whether the spring or the fall visit makes more sense for your house.
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 Fridley MN from the nearest base and works across the full service area, so the calendar is shared across the neighborhoods rather than by street. Residential and commercial properties both start with the same three questions on the phone, and a larger commercial roof is quoted on its own. Booking starts with a quote by phone or text, built from stories, size and tree cover, and a photo of the house front if that is easy for you. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for an exterior visit. Call (866) 435-6328 to book a spring or fall date. The two busy windows are late spring and late fall, when the seed drop and the leaf drop fill the schedule, so a date booked early in those windows is the easiest to hold.
Lead time changes with the season, and we confirm a specific date when you call rather than guess at it here. If you need a slot inside a particular week, say so when you book and we will tell you whether we can hold it. Our gutter cleaning services follow the same calendar in both seasons, and residential properties book up first in late spring. Regular gutter cleaning is easier to schedule than a one-time job squeezed into a busy month, so it is worth setting up the spring and fall dates in advance. Keeping the spring and fall visits on a clean schedule is easier than squeezing in a rush job, and it is the simplest way to protect water flow and clean your gutters on time.
The number comes from stories and size, and we give it to you by phone or text. Homeowners get that number before anything is booked. We do not give a price range here, because the quote depends on what is in the gutters and whether the crew has to lift guards to reach them. The number we quote is the number we charge.
Most of our customers in Fridley, MN book in late spring, after the seed and pollen drop, and in late fall, after the leaves come down. If the fall visit is skipped, we see runs that sag or pull loose by March, because the ice load lands on a gutter already full of leaves. A spring and fall schedule is the simplest way to keep your gutters flowing. Clean runs in the fall are the easiest to hold through the winter.
Most slots come up within the week, and we confirm a date when you call. Our surrounding areas share one calendar, so a same-week slot depends on the date. We do not promise same-day service here, because the calendar fills in the busy windows and we would rather give you a date we can actually keep. Clean dates in the busy windows are the ones that get booked first.
No. Our 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. We check gutters and downspouts together, flush every downspout and flow-test it, and confirm that water is leaving at the outlet. Clearing a buried drain line is a separate job, and we quote it before anyone touches it.
Yes, though less often. On our jobs we find seed casings, small twigs, leaves and needles sitting on top of the guard, with grit settled underneath. We clear the surface and check that water is still getting in, which helps protect your home from water damage.
A clean gutter that still spills over the front edge in rain usually has a slope or downspout-size problem rather than a debris problem. Send us a photo or a short video of it in the rain, and we will tell you what it actually is. We do not sell a second cleaning for a slope problem.
It should not. The quote covers the gutter services we list and the things we find once the ladder is up. If something changes the job, we tell you and you agree to it before the crew starts, never after.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
