Our own crew cleans gutters in Union City NJ, every downspout flushed and flow-tested, the clippings and grit hauled away, and a clean finish with photos of every run before we leave. The price comes from the number of 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 your invoice. Across New Jersey, most of the homes we visit book in the spring and fall, and we are glad to put a date on your calendar. We clean residential and commercial gutters, and a regular visit helps protect your home from water damage.
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. We give an estimate over the phone or by text from those three things, and the number we quote is the number we charge. Companies that price by length land in a similar place per linear foot, but the stories and the state of the gutter usually decide it more than the footage does.
On our jobs, the things that move the quote are a third story or a roof too steep to walk, a walk-out basement that puts the back run far up the wall, gutters nobody has opened in years and packed solid with old leaves, and guards we have to lift and reseat. Every clean includes downspout flushing, flow testing and debris removal, and none of it is billed as an extra. If anything we find changes the job, you hear about it before work starts, never on the invoice.
A gutter that is clogged in one corner is usually a gutter that has been holding water in the trough for a long time. We see clog after clog where the buildup has shifted the pitch, and the water flow stalls at the low point until it spills over the front edge. Our crew leaves a clean trough, flushes any clogged downspouts, and runs water through to confirm the drainage works, so you know the run is carrying water away from your home and not sitting against the foundation.
Union City homes come in a range of sizes and ages, and our gutter cleaning services are scoped to each one. On residential properties along a busy street, we see leaves and debris, plus the odd twig, washed into the same corners every season, and a rain gutter that looks clear from the ground can still be packed inside. If a run has a sag or structural damage, we photograph it and report it to you. We do not repair or replace it, and we do not sell a second visit for a slope problem. A leak at a seam gets the same photo and report.
Commercial properties get the same flushing and photos, quoted per building and scheduled on a date you pick. For a house, call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the front of the house, and we will give you the number before we set a date.
| 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 two cleanings a year, once in spring and once in late fall, which is the rhythm we suggest if you want to clean your gutters on a steady schedule. Across New Jersey, the spring visit usually lands in late May to June, when the downspout elbows are packed with seeds and pollen paste. The fall visit runs late November to December, after the last leaves come down. Left alone, that wet leaf mat is what freezes at the eave when the trough is still full of water.
On houses that skipped the fall visit, we often find a sag in a run by March, after the ice held the water in place. Union City gets about 49.5 inches of precipitation a year, and June, July and August are the wettest months, so a clog that sat through winter meets heavy rainfall as soon as the weather turns. That is the clog that turns into a rainwater problem at the roofline, and it is the reason the fall visit matters more than most people expect. Under heavy tree cover, needles and grit pack the downspout between visits, and a landscape bed under the eave adds to it, so those lots are on a schedule of every three to four months. Homes with few or no trees do well with one clean a year in late fall.
Guards change the schedule a little, not the job, and they are no substitute for gutter maintenance. Less material reaches the trough, but the surface still needs a clean and the blockage checked underneath. After the first visit we tell you which of those schedules your lot actually needs, so you are not guessing. Our crew does the work, and you get the photos to confirm it.
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.
Union City gutter cleaning runs on our own crew, and every Union City homeowner gets the same clean on every street: we flush every downspout and send photos of the finished run. We know which blocks have the heaviest leaf load and which ones are shaded by mature trees. We cover the city as a whole from the nearest base, and we keep the schedule tight enough that a slot comes up without a long wait. To book, call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the house front. We will ask about stories, size and tree cover, and give you a number over the phone.
The two busy windows on our calendar are late spring and late fall. Book early for those windows so we can get your gutters clear before the seasonal rain or the first hard freeze. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home. The crew works from the outside and sends photos to your phone when the job is done, which is how most of our customers keep a record of the gutter cleaning process and protect your home from water damage.
If you have a commercial building or a second property nearby, we can schedule those on the same route, and we take jobs in surrounding areas the same way. Keep your gutters working and your foundations dry with regular gutter cleaning. Each visit should leave a clean trough, so let us handle the ladder work and you can stay on the ground. Our gutter services cover the whole job, from flushing to photos.
The price for cleaning services in Union City comes from stories and size, not from a fixed chart. Text a photo of the front of the house or call (866) 435-6328 and we will give you the figure before we set a date.
Across New Jersey, the spring visit usually lands in late May to June, and in Union City the fall visit runs late November to December. Waiting past the first hard freeze means the ice has already held water in the trough, and that is where a sag starts and the wood behind it can rot.
Across Union City, most slots come up within the week, and we confirm the date when you call. We do not promise same-day work, because the calendar fills in the busy windows.
No. The gutter cleaning process runs outside, the crew does not come inside, and photos of every run and downspout go to your phone before the truck leaves. Leave the side gate unlocked and keep pets inside while the ladders are up.
Yes. Our crew treats the gutters and downspouts as one system: every downspout is flushed, checked at the outlet, and any clogged downspout gets cleared so the run is clean from top to bottom. Clearing a buried line is a separate job and is quoted before anyone touches it.
Yes. Gutter guards keep out the leaves, but a gutter system with guards still needs cleaning and maintenance, since needles, seed casings and grit sit on top and mat over time. We lift the panels, clear underneath and check the blockage before we reseat them.
Send us a photo or a short video of the overflow in the rain. A gutter that is clean and still spills over the edge usually has a slope or downspout-size problem, and we will tell you what it is instead of selling a second cleaning.
It should not. If something we find changes the job, you hear about it and agree to it before work starts, so the number on the phone stays the number on the invoice.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
