Our own crew cleans gutters and downspouts in Lodi, flushes every downspout and checks the flow, hauls the debris away, and leaves the ground clean. You get photos of every run before we leave. The price comes 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, and we keep those slots filled first.
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 give you an estimate by phone or text from those three things, and the number we quote is the number we charge. Our gutter cleaning services are priced the same way for every homeowner. Companies that price by the linear foot land in a similar place per foot, but the stories and the state of the gutters decide the real cost on your house.
On our jobs, the things that move the price are a third story or a steep roof we cannot walk, a walk-out basement or sloped lot that raises the roofline, a rain gutter left for years with a buildup of leaves and debris in the trough, and guards we have to lift and reseat. We flush each downspout, check the water flow at the outlet and run a drainage check on the line. Haul-off is never billed as an extra. The crew leaves each run clean before it packs up. Anything that changes the job is raised before work starts, never on the invoice.
Our crew often finds the same pattern on Lodi houses: a run that sags, a leaf and twig jam in the downspout, and a water flow that stops at the bend. That is the kind of finding that shifts the price, and we tell you about it before we climb.
Lodi homes often have a mix of tree cover and roofline heights, so the crew looks at the house before the number is final. A landscape with big trees drops more needles and seed into the gutters than an open lot, and that changes the number. Leaf litter and grit that build up under the trees here drive more work than the house size alone. Commercial properties in the area follow the same logic per building, and residential and commercial properties both get the same photo-by-photo report.
If a run is pulling away or a downspout is clogged enough to back water toward the foundation, that is structural damage in the making, and we say so. We do not sell a repair. We photograph it, report it, and keep the cleaning price separate. The goal is to keep water away from your home and out of the fascia, and the quote reflects only what the crew actually does.
| 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.
Across New Jersey, the spring visit falls late May to June, after seed and pollen drop, and the fall visit falls November to early December, once the last leaves are down. Plan on regular gutter cleaning in both windows, and clean your gutters before the seasons turn. On our Lodi NJ jobs, gutters opened in May have seeds and pollen paste packed in the downspout elbows. In November it is the wet leaf mat, and any clog left until winter turns into an ice problem.
Freeze risk is real here, so the fall visit matters. Water that cannot drain from a sagging gutter system freezes at the eave and forms ice dams, and by March the runs that sagged are the ones whose hangers gave way. Houses that skipped the fall visit are the ones we see most often with a sag, a leak at the same corner, and rot in the fascia board.
Under heavy tree cover, the schedule that holds is more frequent, because needles and grit pack the downspouts faster than two cleanings a year can keep them clean. Heavy rainfall in June, July and August, with 46.3 inches of precipitation a year, washes that grit into the trough, so a blocked run shows up fast. Residential properties with few or no trees need only one visit a year, in late fall, to keep the gutters clean and rainwater moving.
Guards change the schedule, though not to zero. On guarded gutters the crew still clears the surface litter and checks the flow, and those visits come less often than on open gutters.
After the first visit we tell you which tier your lot actually needs. Book the first visit before the spring or fall rush, and the crew will confirm the blockage points and the gutter cleaning service interval on the spot. Call (866) 435-6328 to book a date for your 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.
Our crew offers cleaning services in Lodi and covers the surrounding areas from the nearest base. Lodi homeowners get an estimate by phone or text from stories, size and tree cover, and a photo of the house front helps if it is easy to send. Lead time depends on the season, and the two busy windows of the year are spring and fall, when the calendar fills fastest.
We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for exterior work. Lodi gutter cleaning is booked the same way: if you want the crew to keep your gutters clean through the seasons, tell us when you call and we will set the schedule to match the tree cover and the freeze months. Our gutter cleaning process starts with that call. Our gutter services follow that plan, and every visit ends with the same photo report.
Homeowners across the area ask us how fast they can get on the calendar. Text a photo of the roofline and the crew can often tell you the timing. Haul-off is part of the price, debris removal included, so nothing is left in the trough or on the lawn. We flush each downspout before we leave. Protect your home from water damage by getting any clog cleared before the next storm, and get your gutters clean before the next heavy rainfall.
Call (866) 435-6328 to get on the calendar, and book cleaning and gutter maintenance as one visit so the crew can leave a clean house and a clear schedule for the next one.
Gutter work in Lodi NJ is priced from stories and size, and we give the number by phone or text. Two stories with a standard roofline is priced the same way as any other house, from those inputs.
Across New Jersey, the spring visit falls late May to June and the fall visit falls November to early December. Waiting past that window in Lodi means freeze and ice risk on the eave, so the timing matters.
No, you do not need to be home. The gutter cleaning process is exterior only: our crew works outside, does not come in, and sends photos of every run and downspout before the truck leaves. Leave the side gate unlocked and keep pets inside.
Yes. We flush every downspout and check the flow, including where the water exits, and leave each run clean. If an underground line needs clearing, we price that separately and tell you before we touch it.
Guards still need cleaning. On our jobs we find leaves and seed casings sitting on top of the guard and grit underneath, and the crew clears both, so the guard and the trough both come out clean.
If the gutters still overflow after we leave, send us a short video in the rain. Overflow after a clean usually means a slope or downspout size problem, and we tell you what it is rather than selling a second cleaning.
No. The number on the phone is the number on the invoice. If the crew finds something that changes the job, you hear it before work starts.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
