Our crew cleans gutters for local homeowners, every downspout flushed and flow-tested, everything hauled away and the yard left clean, and photos of every run before we leave. The price comes from your stories, the size of the house and how much tree cover is overhead, 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 leaf fall have finished filling the gutters.
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. We quote it over the phone 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 tend to land in a similar place per foot, but we price the whole house so you can see the total before anyone climbs.
On our jobs, four things move the price. A third story or a roof too steep to walk takes more time on the ladder and the lift. A walk-out basement or sloped lot raises the effective height of the back run. Gutters that have not been opened in years arrive packed with compacted debris, which takes longer to clear and flush. Guards we have to lift and reseat add a step to every run. Downspout flushing, flow testing and debris removal are already in the number and are never billed as extras. If something changes the job once we are on site, you hear about it and agree to it before work starts, never on the invoice.
Here is what we see most on residential jobs in Harrison homes. Gutters that have sat for a season or two develop a sag where the buildup pulls the run away from the fascia, and a clog at a downspout elbow backs water up into the trough. Both come down to the same thing: drainage is not keeping up with the water flow. Clearing the trough alone rarely fixes that, so we flush every downspout and watch the outlet until it runs clear. Customers who keep up with regular cleanings see far fewer of these, and the cost of a single visit stays predictable because the load stays small. It is also cheaper to clean your gutters on a schedule than to repair a rotted fascia.
Our crew handles both residential and commercial properties, and the process for each is the same: we measure the house or building, assess the number of stories and the access to each run, and quote from there. For residential properties, the most common add-on is a second visit when a storm has packed the troughs during the season. For commercial sites, the schedule is set per building rather than per visit, so a price covers the full year of gutter maintenance and a clean, documented visit each time.
| 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 in Harrison NJ book twice a year: a clean spring visit after the seed and pollen drop, and a fall visit once the last leaves are down. Across New Jersey, the spring visit usually lands in late May to June. The fall visit usually lands in November to early December. When we open a gutter in late spring, we find seeds, seed casings and the odd twig stuck in the elbows, plus a pollen mat along the trough. In the fall it is the wet leaf mat, and on houses that skipped that visit, runs have pulled loose by winter.
Under heavy tree cover, we see the outlets clog between visits, so those houses go on a three- to four-month rhythm because needles and grit build up faster than a twice-a-year visit can keep up with. Houses with few or no trees overhead do well on a once-a-year clean in late fall. Gutters with guards still need the surface kept clean, usually on the less frequent end of that scale. Our crew can tell you which tier your lot needs before you commit, because the first visit shows us exactly what is coming off the house. Expect heavy rainfall in June, July and December, the wettest months around here, so keep your gutters clear and flowing before those months. Whatever tier you pick, keep your gutters clean between visits.
Once a trough clogs, rainwater has nowhere to go but over the edge, and repeated overflow can cause structural damage and rot in the fascia and the wall below. A visit on schedule keeps the blockage from forming, and a clean trough gives the rain somewhere to go. That is how you protect your home from water damage.
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 works in town and the surrounding areas from our nearest base. To book, call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the front of the house, and we will give you a quote from your stories, the size of the house and the amount of tree cover. Lead time changes with the season: the calendar fills in late spring and again in late fall, the two busy windows, so the sooner you call the better your pick of dates. We will call before we come, and you do not need to be home for the visit.
Because we work on the same houses over several years, our crew learns what each layout asks for, which is why repeat customers get a faster estimate. Our gutter cleaning process is straightforward: we clear the troughs by hand, flush each downspout, and check the flow at the outlet until the water comes out clean. The three steps repeat on every visit, and we send photos at the end of each one. Ask us about the gutter guards already on your house before the crew shows up, because they change how we get the material out and how long the clearing takes.
Harrison gutter cleaning pairs well with gutter maintenance on a fixed schedule, since cleaning and maintenance can share one visit: the troughs, the gutter run and the downspout outlet all get checked in the same pass. Our gutter services cover every run on the house, and a sagging run can lead to a leak at the roofline long before anyone sees a stain. Every homeowner gets photos before the truck leaves. The sooner you call, the easier it is to get your gutters on the date you want.
The number comes from the stories and the size of the house, and we give it to you by phone or text. There is no fixed figure for every two-story house, because the layout, the access and the buildup in the troughs all change the time on the ladder. Once you give us those details, the quote is the price you pay.
Most of our customers book a spring visit and again in fall. If you wait past the fall visit, the wet leaf mat has already started to freeze into the troughs, and on those houses runs sag by winter. Across New Jersey, the same pattern holds for most houses on a twice-a-year schedule.
Most slots come up within the week for cleaning services in Harrison, and we confirm the exact date when you call (866) 435-6328. If a same-day opening exists on the day you call, we will tell you on the phone.
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, keep the path to the side yard clean, and keep pets inside while the ladders are up.
Yes, we flush every downspout, since clogged downspouts are a common cause of overflow, and we watch the outlet until the water runs clear, which carries water away from your home. Where a downspout feeds an underground line, we check that water is leaving at the outlet and tell you if it is not. We also look at whether the landscape around that outlet is pushing water back toward the house. Clearing a buried line is a separate job and is quoted before anyone starts.
Yes. On our jobs, guards keep out most leaves and debris but let seeds, needles and grit settle on top, and once that mat is wet, water runs off the front edge. We lift the panels, clear underneath, flush each downspout and reseat the guards. A gutter system with guards usually makes the visit shorter than an open one, but it still gets a visit.
A rain gutter that is clean and still spills over the edge in rain has a slope, capacity or downspout-size problem, not a buildup problem. Send us a photo or a short video in the rain and we will tell you what it is. We do not sell a second cleaning for a slope problem.
It should not. If the crew finds something that changes the job, such as a pitch too steep to walk or a run that cannot be reached from the ground, you hear about it and agree to the change before work starts. The number you were quoted is the number on the invoice, and the crew leaves the ground as clean as it was found.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
