Our own crew cleans gutters in Middleton, flushes and flow-tests every downspout, hauls the leaves and grit off, and leaves the gutters clean with photos of every run before we go. The price comes from your stories, your home's size and how much tree cover hangs over the roof, and the number we give you on the phone is the number on your invoice. Across Wisconsin, most of our customers book in spring and fall, and we are glad to fit your home into one of those visits.
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, how big it is and what is sitting in the gutters. We quote it by phone or text from those three things, and the number we quote is the number we charge. Other companies price by the linear foot, which lands in a similar place per foot once the full run is counted, but the three things above are what we measure on the ground. Our gutter cleaning services in Middleton work the same way for every homeowner who calls.
What moves the quote on our jobs is usually a third story or a roof too steep to walk, which means a boom or scissor lift instead of a ladder. A walk-out basement or a sloped lot raises the working height of the back eave. Gutters nobody has cleaned in years come out packed with compacted debris, and that takes more time, so the job runs longer on those houses. Guards we have to lift and reseat add a few minutes per section. Downspout flushing, flow testing and debris removal are included and never billed as extras. Anything that changes the job is raised with you before work starts, never on the invoice.
Most Middleton homes we visit have a gutter overflowing at the corners or a downspout that has stopped running in the rain. Once a run is open we can see whether the leak is a clog from a twig, a sag or a seam, and we tell you which before we charge for anything. A house kept clean on schedule rarely needs more than the base visit, while one that has gone a few seasons without a cleaning can show buildup that takes longer to clear. Regular cleanings keep the job short, and cleaning and maintenance on a set plan keeps the bill predictable. Get your gutters on that plan and the gutter maintenance stays simple. Middleton homeowners get a number from those details: call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the front of the house, and we will quote it from there.
| 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.
Across Wisconsin, most of our customers book twice a year, once in late May or June after the seed and pollen drop, and once in late October or November after the last leaves are down. In spring the downspout elbows are packed with seeds and pollen paste, and clogged downspouts need flushing before summer. We leave every run clean and let the downspout carry water away from your home. In fall it is the wet leaf mat and the leaves and debris that settle at the corners, and on houses that skipped the fall visit we find runs that have pulled loose by the time the snow goes. Freeze season is when trapped water turns into ice dams at the eave, so the fall cleaning is the one that keeps the gutter system draining through winter.
Middleton gets about 39.4 inches of precipitation a year, and heavy rainfall in June, July and August fills any run that is not kept clear. Middleton also averages about 38.5 inches of snow, mostly from November through April, so a clog left in the fall can freeze into the eave. A rain gutter that sags for a season lets water pool at the fascia, and that is how the board starts to rot and structural damage follows. Under heavy tree cover, regular gutter cleaning every three to four months is the schedule we see work, because needles and grit pack the drainage path between visits and a single season can fill a run that was clear in the spring. Homes with few or no trees near the eaves do fine with one visit a year in late fall, and the run stays clean between visits. A house beside a busy road or construction site collects grit faster, and a mature landscape around it drops more seed and needles, so we bring that into the schedule too. Gutter guards change the job without ending it: we clear what sits on top of the guard and check that water is still getting in.
Our crew works with what the lot actually shows. A customer with no trees over the house on a once-a-year plan and a customer under heavy canopy on a three-month plan will see very different results, and we would rather you hear that from the first visit than guess. After the first visit we tell you which tier your lot needs, and then you can clean your gutters through the year on that schedule.
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 homes across Middleton WI and the surrounding areas from the nearest base, and books by phone or text. You tell us the stories, the approximate size and whether trees hang over the roof, and send a photo of the house front if that is easy. Lead time depends on the season, and a visit booked outside the two busy windows usually gets a date within the week. The busy windows are late spring and late fall, when the seed drop and the leaf drop bring in the most calls, so booking early in those months gets you a better slot. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for the visit. We check the water flow on each run before we leave. For residential properties we keep a short visit list that covers the full roofline, and for a building with more than one wing we schedule the runs by section. We also take on commercial properties, so our gutter cleaning service covers residential and commercial sites alike, and every site follows the same gutter cleaning process. Call (866) 435-6328 to get on the calendar. If you want cleaning and maintenance on a set schedule, we can set that up when you book, and the site is left clean when we finish.
The number comes from the stories and the size of the house, and we give an estimate by phone or text. We do not give a range here because the real figure depends on what is in your gutters on the day we look.
Across Wisconsin, most of our customers book in late May or June and again in late October or November. If you wait past the fall visit, we find ice and sagging runs by March on houses that skipped it, and a clean gutter helps protect your home from water damage through the winter.
Most slots come up within the week, and we confirm a date when you call. Same-day depends on the calendar that week, so we will tell you honestly what we can fit.
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 pets inside while the ladders are up, and the crew leaves the lawn clean.
Yes. We flush every downspout and check the gutters and downspouts together until the water runs clean at the bottom. Where a downspout feeds an underground line we check that water is leaving at the outlet, and clearing a buried line is quoted separately before anyone touches it.
Yes, less often. Under guards we find needles threaded through, seed casings on top and leaf grit underneath, and once that mat is wet the rain runs off the front edge. We lift the panels, clean underneath and reseat them.
A clean gutter that still sheets water over the edge has a slope or downspout-size problem, not a debris problem or a blockage further down the line. Send us a photo or short video of the rainwater pouring over the edge, and we will tell you what it is, without selling you a second cleaning for a slope issue.
It should not. The price you hear on the phone is the price on the invoice, and if the crew finds something that changes the job, you hear it and agree to it before they start.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
