Gutters clog fast after a storm, so our own gutter cleaning crew clears them: every downspout flushed and flow-tested, the debris bagged and hauled away, and photos of every run before we leave. Our cleanings are priced from stories, size and tree cover, and the number we give on the phone is the number on the invoice. Across New Jersey, most of our customers book in spring and fall, when the seed drop and the last leaves have come down. Every homeowner gets a clean, photographed job, and a regular visit costs less than a repaired fascia. Call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the roofline and we will give you a written estimate.
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 sitting in the gutters. Every homeowner gets a quote over the phone or by text, built from those three things, and the number we quote is the number we charge. Our gutter cleaning services are priced by the job, and companies that price by the linear foot land in a similar place per foot, but on a house the total is what matters, so ask for a written estimate before you book.
What moves the quote on our jobs is what the crew finds when it gets up there. 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 roofline. A gutter system nobody has opened in years comes out packed with a compacted leaf mat, and that buildup takes time to clear by hand. Guards we have to lift and reseat add a step to the job. Downspout flushing, flow testing and the leaves and debris we bag are included and are never billed as extras. Anything that changes the job is raised before work starts, never on the invoice.
The houses that cost the most to clean are the ones that have gone the longest without it. A house with a long back run and a lot of leaves sitting since the last visit often has the worst clog, and that is common in fort lee homes that have gone too long between cleanings. When the rain gutter is full, the water flow over the edge goes straight to the foundation, and that is how a sag becomes structural damage. A joint that starts to leak at the seam is usually the first warning. We see the same pattern on commercial properties, and the steps are the same. We flush clogged downspouts until the water runs clean and check the drainage at the outlet. Ask for a photo of the front of the house by text and we will tell you what we expect to find before we arrive. Our crew checks where the water goes once it leaves the downspout and whether the landscape slopes back toward the house, because the goal is to keep the water away from your home.
| One story | Two stories | Three stories or steep | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 1,500 sq ft | from $150 | from $225 | from $295 |
| 1,500 to 2,500 sq ft | from $200 | from $260 | from $335 |
| Over 2,500 sq ft | from $235 | from $305 | from $395 |
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 twice a year, and the timing follows the weather. Across New Jersey, the spring visit runs late May to June, once the seed and pollen drop has finished. The fall visit runs November to early December, after the last leaves are down and before the first hard freeze. Our gutter cleaning service for fort lee nj homes is built around those two windows, since the spring and fall visits catch the seed drop and the leaf drop.
Precipitation runs about 50 inches a year here, and March, July and August are the wettest months, when rainwater tests every run hardest. By the spring visit the downspout elbows are packed with seeds and pollen paste, and a single gutter that has gone unchecked can start to overflow in the first heavy rain. In November it is the wet leaf mat, and on houses that skipped the fall visit we have seen runs sag under ice by March.
Under heavy tree cover, the cleanings need to come more often, because needles and grit pack the downspout between visits and a blockage can leak at the seam before anyone sees it. In areas with few or no trees, once a year in late fall is enough for most residential properties. Guards, where we have them, get cleaned less often, but the surface is still cleared on each visit. Our crew handles the debris removal on every visit, and after the first one we tell you which tier your system needs, so you are not guessing about regular gutter cleaning.
Freeze and thaw is the reason fall matters more here than it might elsewhere. Snow runs nearly 30 inches a year, and it falls in December, January, February and March. A gutter full of water at the start of winter becomes an ice dam at the eave, and the water backs up under the shingles. Taking the time to clean your gutters before the freeze is what keeps that leak out of the ceiling. Our crew clears the runs before that happens. Call (866) 435-6328 to set a date, or text a photo of the roofline so we can estimate the visit ahead of time.
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.
Fort Lee gutter cleaning is handled by our own crew, which covers the surrounding areas. Booking for our gutter services works the way it sounds: you call or text, we ask for stories, approximate size and whether trees hang over the roof, and if it is easy we ask for a photo of the house front. That is enough for a quote. Once you agree, we confirm a date, and we call before we come, so nobody needs to be home. We handle residential and commercial jobs on the same schedule.
The two stretches of the year when our calendar fills are late spring and late fall, which line up with the seed drop and the leaf drop. If you want a slot in those windows, book early and get your gutters on the books before the drops start. The rest of the year we can usually fit a visit in with a shorter lead time, and we tell you the timing when you call.
If your gutters are already overflowing, tell us first; a twig or a wad of pollen at the outlet is often the cause. The crew checks the gutters and downspouts together, and can usually flush every downspout and clear the runs in the same visit. Gutter guards help, but they do not end the job, so we still clear the surface on every visit. We want to keep your gutters working through heavy rainfall, and you should not have to wait for a slot to protect your home from water damage.
Homeowners ask this first, and the number comes from stories and size, which we give you by phone or text. We do not quote a figure without those details. Our cleanings are priced to the invoice, so when we call back, the number is the number on the invoice.
Across New Jersey, spring visits run late May to June, once the seed drop has finished. The fall visit runs November to early December, before the first hard freeze. If you wait past that freeze, wet leaves turn into ice at the eave, and we have seen runs sag by March on houses that skipped the fall visit.
Same-day depends on the route that day, and we confirm the date when you call. We book across fort lee in the order the calls come in, so tell us what you need and we will say honestly what we have.
No. The gutter cleaning process is all outside work: our crew 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, keep pets inside while the ladders are up, and the yard is left clean.
Yes. We flush every downspout on the house and check that the water is leaving at the outlet. Clearing a buried drain line is a separate job, and we quote it before anyone touches it.
Yes. Guards do not end gutter maintenance, and cleaning and maintenance on guarded gutters is still needed. On our jobs we find needles, seed casings and grit sitting on top of the guard and packed underneath it. The surface still gets cleared, though usually less often than open gutters.
If the gutter system is clean and still spills over the edge in heavy rainfall, the problem is usually the slope, the capacity or the downspout size, not the clog. Send us a short video in the rain and we will tell you whether it is a slope problem or a board that has started to rot. We do not sell a second cleaning for a slope problem.
It should not. If the crew finds something that changes the job, you hear it and agree to it before work starts, never on the invoice.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
