Our own crew does a clean, full pass on New Ulm gutters, every outlet flushed and flow-tested, leaves hauled away, and photos of every run before we leave. The price comes from your stories, your home's size and how much tree cover is over the house, and the number we give you on the phone is the number on the invoice. Across Minnesota, most of our customers book in the spring and fall, when seed drop and the last leaves have finished and the gutters need a full pass.
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 size and what is sitting in the gutters. We quote it at (866) 435-6328 or by text from those three things, and the number we quote is the number we charge. Gutter cleaning services that price by the linear foot land in a similar place per foot, but on our jobs the stories and the buildup decide the figure more than the footage does.
What moves the price is what the crew finds on the ladder: a third story or a pitch too steep to walk, a walk-out basement that puts the back run well up in the air, gutters nobody has opened in years and packed with compacted muck, and guards we have to lift and reseat before we can reach the trough. Flushing, flow testing and debris removal are included and never billed as extras. If anything changes the job, you hear about it before work starts, not on the invoice.
New Ulm homes with the heaviest quotes are the older ones where the gutters have gone years without a full pass. The trough holds a sag, the clog sits at the elbow, and the water flow is weakest right where the drainage matters most. When a run is in that condition, with clogged downspouts and a sag, we flush each one and show you a clean flow at the bottom before we call the job done, which is part of why the quote can move once we see it. Where the muck has become a solid mat, the clog is the cost driver, and we tell you that from the first photo. Some properties we service are commercial properties, where the same logic applies building by building, and the leaves and debris from a parking-lot tree can be as heavy as anything on a residential house.
New Ulm homeowners have been clearing a rain gutter run for years and then asking why their house shows structural damage under the eave. The honest answer is that a gutter holding standing water for a season will pull on its hangers and let the water away from the fascia-side wall and into the siding behind it. Clearing it early keeps the repair bill small. We would rather you call while the damage is still on the way than after it has reached the framing.
| 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 New Ulm MN customers book twice a year, in spring and fall: once after the seed and pollen drop, and once after the last leaves come down. In spring we find seed casings and pollen paste packed into the elbows. In fall it is the wet leaf mat, and when a gutter has skipped its fall visit we see the runs sagging by March under the weight of ice. That is a gutter clog that let rainwater sit against the roofline, and it is cheaper to catch in October than in March.
Under heavy tree cover, with big trees over the house, regular gutter cleaning keeps the gutters clean every three to four months, because needles, twig and grit keep packing the outlets between visits. A home with few or no trees in its landscape does well with one visit a year in late fall. Homes near a busy road or a construction site, residential properties with big shade trees, and residential and commercial buildings fall in the heavier tier as well, since the blockage builds faster. Guards cut the number of cleanings, but we still clear the surface and check the trough.
After the first visit we tell you which tier your lot actually needs, and we give the reason from what we found in your gutters, not a general schedule. Schedule your estimate by phone or text, and we will set the date for your spring and fall visits. Clean your gutters on a schedule that fits the lot, and call early to get your gutters on the calendar before the next load of leaves arrives. We keep cleaning and maintenance on one visit so the trough and the outlets get checked together, and debris removal is part of the visit.
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.
New Ulm gutter cleaning comes from our own crews, and the gutter cleaning process starts with a call to (866) 435-6328 for an estimate using your stories, your home's size and whether trees hang over the house. A photo of the front of the house helps us judge the height and the access, and it takes one minute to send. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for the work to go ahead.
Our gutter services calendar fills in the two busy windows of the year, late spring and late fall, so booking early keeps your date. If you need a slot outside those windows, ask when you call. Each of our cleanings covers the gutters, flushes every downspout, and ends with photos of the runs so you can see the result, which is what the homeowner needs to catch a leak early. We do residential and commercial work, and we keep the schedule for both in the same office.
We protect your home from water damage by getting the gutters and downspouts clean before heavy rainfall, and we work across New Ulm and the surrounding areas from the same base. If you want to keep your gutters working between visits, call us and we will tell you what to watch for. We are happy to provide gutter services that fit the lot, and to tell you plainly when a visit is not needed yet.
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 put a figure on the page because the buildup in the trough changes the job more than the footage does. Once we have the stories and the size we can give you an exact number.
Across Minnesota, spring visits fall in mid to late June, once the seed and pollen drop is over, and fall visits run October to early November, after the leaves are down. If the fall visit is skipped, we find sagging runs by March on houses that froze with a full trough. Booking in late spring or late fall keeps your date open.
We take bookings for cleaning services in New Ulm by phone and confirm the date when you call. We do not promise same-day service because the calendar fills in the busy windows of the year.
No, you do not need to be home. Our crew works outside and does not come inside, and we send photos of every run and downspout to your phone before the truck leaves. Leave the side gate unlocked and keep pets in while the ladders are up.
Yes, we flush each one and check that the water is leaving at the outlet and running away from your home. Once it runs clean, we move on; if it feeds an underground line, we check that outlet and tell you whether water is moving. Clearing a buried line is a separate job and is priced before anyone touches it.
Yes, a guarded gutter system still needs gutter maintenance, with the surface cleared and the trough left clean. Needles, seed casings and grit sit on top of the guard and mat once they are wet, so the water never gets in. We lift the panels, clear underneath, flush the outlets and reseat the guards.
A gutter that is clean and still spilling water over the edge has a slope or capacity problem, or a leak at a seam, not a debris problem. Send us a photo or a short video of it in the rain and we will tell you what it is, without selling a second cleaning for a slope problem. Water left spilling over the edge can rot the fascia behind it, so the sooner we see it, the better.
It only changes if the crew finds something that changes the job, and you hear it before any work starts. The number we quote on the phone is the number on the invoice, and we do not add extras for flushing or haul-off.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
