Our own crew cleans gutters across Oakdale MN, every downspout flushed and flow-tested, the mess hauled away, and photos of every run before we leave, with the gutters left clean. Call (866) 435-6328 for a quote. The price comes from your stories, your home's size and how much tree cover is over the roof, and the number we give you on the phone is the number on your invoice. Homeowners get the same answer every spring and fall, and that is when most of our customers book with us.
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, whether that is leaves and debris or old seed casings. We price it over the phone or by text from those three things, and the number we give is the number we charge. Other gutter cleaning services price by the linear foot, which lands in a similar place once the footage is added up. Commercial properties go through the same three questions, because stories and run length set the time on the ladder. A gutter's whole job is to carry the water away from your home.
On our jobs, a third story or a roof too steep to walk takes longer and more ladder work. A walk-out basement puts the back run far up the wall. Gutters nobody has opened in years come out packed with compacted leaves, and sometimes the buildup is so heavy that the clog has already started to sag the run; left long enough, that sag turns into structural damage. Guards we have to lift and reseat add time, and so does a run that needs a clean before it can be flushed. The crew flushes any clogged downspouts and tests the water flow, and the haul-off is part of the job, never billed as an extra. If anything changes the job once we are looking at it, you hear about it before work starts, never on the invoice.
Our jobs show the pattern. On one house with heavy tree cover, the crew found a clog at two downspout elbows and a run that had started to pull away from the fascia, so the flush and the check of the drainage path took longer than a quick scoop, and the run came out clean only after the flush. The homeowner was told before the crew went up and agreed to it. On houses with few trees and a single story, the job runs short and the quote stays low. Oakdale homes vary a lot, and we would rather tell you what we see than guess from the street.
| 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 Oakdale MN customers book twice a year, spring and fall: once in late spring after the seed and pollen drop, and once in late October to November after the last leaves come down, so the gutters start the winter clean. In spring we find seeds, seed casings and pollen paste packed into the downspout elbows. In fall it is the wet leaf mat, and on houses that skipped the fall visit we see runs sagging under ice by the time the snow melts. Rain and snow both run heavy here: 33.8 inches of precipitation a year, with heavy rainfall in June, July and August and 40.4 inches of snow between November and April, so rainwater is always testing the gutters. A rain gutter that holds a few inches of wet leaves through the winter is already forming a blockage.
Under heavy tree cover, regular gutter cleaning means a visit every three to four months, because needles, a stray twig and grit keep packing the gutters along the roofline between visits. A house with few or no trees usually needs one visit a year in late fall, and a clean gutter going into winter is the goal. The same schedule math covers residential properties, and it covers residential and commercial buildings alike, because the lot decides the timing. Gutter guards cut down how often the gutter fills, but they do not stop the surface buildup, so debris removal from the top of the guard still happens on the schedule your lot needs.
After the first visit we tell you which of those schedules your lot actually needs. Ask for an estimate by phone or text, and this gutter cleaning service gives you the timing with the quote, so you know when to clean your gutters before the next season.
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 Oakdale from the nearest base and works through the neighborhoods where we have cleaned. Booking is simple: call (866) 435-6328 or text us with the number of stories, a rough square footage and whether trees hang over the roof, and send a photo of the front of the house if that is easy. We give you a quote from those details and confirm a date. Our calendar fills in the two busy windows of the year, the spring and fall visits, so booking early helps. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for an exterior visit. Keep your gutters and downspouts clear between cleanings and you protect your home from water damage at the eave and the foundation.
Our crew also handles the surrounding areas of the metro for the same gutter services, and the Oakdale gutter cleaning we do keeps the same standard: flush every downspout and photograph every run. Every homeowner gets the same photo set, so a slow leak at a seam shows up on the phone before anyone argues about it. A seam that leaks gets reported, not sold as a repair on the spot, and a run that comes out clean at the bottom still gets photographed like every other run.
The number depends on the house's size and what is in the gutters, so we give it by phone or text. We do not give a figure without those details. Every two-story job follows the same gutter cleaning process from the first call to the last photo, and once we have the details, the number we give you is the number on your invoice.
Our customers mostly book in late spring and late fall. In late fall, the wet leaf mat is the main thing we clear, and freeze months in Minnesota make a skipped fall visit costly, because ice can pull runs loose by March.
Our crew runs routes across Oakdale, so most cleaning services in Oakdale come up within the week, and we confirm a date when you call. Call early to get your gutters on the calendar. We do not promise same-day service, because the calendar fills in the spring and fall windows.
No. Our crew works outside, does not come into the house, 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. Stand-offs keep each ladder off the gutter lip and away from your home's siding, and the yard is left clean.
Yes, we flush every downspout across the whole gutter system and check that the water leaves the outlet clean. If the outlet dumps water onto the landscape right at the foundation, we photograph it and tell you before we leave. Clearing a buried drain line is a separate job, priced before anyone touches it.
Yes. Under guards we still find seed casings, needles and grit sitting on top, and once that mat gets wet, water runs off the front edge. We clean the surface and check that water is getting in. Guards change the cleaning and maintenance schedule, but they do not end gutter maintenance.
A clean gutter that still spills in rain usually has a slope or downspout-size problem, not a cleaning problem, and water left on the fascia can lead to rot. 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.
Only if the job changes, and we tell you before work starts, not after. The quote we give you is the number you pay.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
