Our own crew cleans gutters on Shorewood homes, flushing every downspout, testing the flow, hauling everything it pulls out and sending photos of every run before we leave, so you can see each one come out clean. The price comes from your stories, your square footage and how much tree cover hangs over the house. The number we give you on the phone is the number on your invoice. We have run this work across Wisconsin for years, and most of our bookings come in spring and fall.
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 quote Shorewood homes over the phone or by text from those three things, and the number we quote is the number we charge. Other companies price their gutter services by the linear foot, and that lands in a similar place once the run is measured.
On our jobs, a third story or a roof too steep to walk is the biggest single change to a quote. A walk-out basement or sloped lot raises the effective height of the roofline, which means more setup and more time on the ladder. Gutters nobody has opened in years come down full of compacted leaves and debris, with buildup that takes longer to clear than a light fall load, and a run that has started to sag adds time too. Guards we have to lift and reseat add time as well. We flush every downspout, clear any clogged downspouts, and test the drainage and water flow, and debris removal is included in the price and never billed as an extra. If anything we find changes the job, you hear it before work starts, never on the invoice.
Our experience with gutter cleaning services here comes from the houses on our route. On a recent job the rain gutter ran the length of a two-story house under a heavy canopy, and the leaves and grit had packed the trough and two clogged outlets, so the crew cleared the run first and flushed each outlet until the water ran clear at the bottom. That is the usual pattern: the trough fills, the flow slows, and water starts to go over the edge rather than out where it should. Clearing the clog at the outlet is what keeps the water away from your home, before it reaches the foundation and the fascia board, which is where structural damage starts when it is left alone, and it is how you protect your home from water damage. Call (866) 435-6328 and we will tell you what we would expect to find on your house.
| 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, late May or June is the usual spring visit, after the seed and pollen drop, and most of our customers here book again in late October or November after the last leaves are down. When we open a gutter here in May we usually find seeds, seed casings and pollen paste packed into the elbows. In November it is the wet leaf mat, and on houses that skipped the fall visit we have found runs that sag by March after the first ice.
Under heavy tree cover, regular gutter cleaning every three to four months is the rhythm that keeps up with the load. Needles, grit and the odd twig pack the downspouts between visits, and the gutter clog builds faster than a twice-a-year schedule can handle, so the cleanings have to come more often. Few or no trees near the roofline means once a year in late fall is usually enough for gutter maintenance. Houses with gutter guards still need the surface clean, though less often than open gutters do. The rainwater that runs off a guarded roof still has to find the downspout, and in heavy rainfall a blockage at the top of the run stops it just as it would in an open gutter.
Residential and commercial work follows the same logic on cleaning and maintenance: the schedule for residential properties and commercial properties follows the load in the gutters and the rainfall, not the calendar. Freezing winters make the fall visit matter more here, because standing water in a blocked run becomes ice at the eave, and that ice is how a leak gets started. Call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the roofline, and we will estimate which tier your house needs. After the first visit we tell you which tier your lot actually needs, so you are not guessing from a brochure.
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.
We clean Shorewood WI and the surrounding areas from our nearest base, and the crew runs the same routes across town most weeks, so it knows which houses have heavy tree cover, which have a steep pitch, and where the landscape slopes toward the foundation. Booking a cleaning works the way it sounds. You tell us the stories, the approximate size and whether trees hang over the house, and if it is easy, send a photo of the front of the house by text. We give you a quote on the spot and a date when the calendar opens. Lead times move with the season, and we confirm the date when you call rather than promising a slot we cannot hold.
Our calendar fills in two busy windows: late spring when the seeds come down, and late fall when the leaves finish. Booking Shorewood gutter cleaning early in those windows keeps you from waiting. We call before we come to clean gutters and downspouts, and nobody needs to be home for the visit. Keep your gutters clear by getting them on the calendar while the last visit is still fresh, so the next heavy rain runs down the downspout instead of over the edge. Every homeowner gets the same care whether the house sits on a corner lot or in the middle of a block, and our crew clears the gutters and downspout outlets to the same standard.
The number comes from stories and square footage, and we give it to you by phone or text. Our cleaning services in Shorewood are quoted for your house, not from a generic number. The number we quote is the number on your invoice.
Across Wisconsin, late May or June is the usual spring visit, and late October or November is the usual fall one. If you skip gutter maintenance until the first ice, we find the fall load frozen into the trough and sometimes sag runs by March.
Across Shorewood, most slots come up within the week, and we confirm a date when you call to get your gutters on the calendar. We will not promise a same-day visit we cannot keep.
No, you do not need to be home. 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 and keep pets inside while the ladders are up.
Yes. Our gutter cleaning process is to flush every downspout and watch the water run out the bottom, which keeps the water away from your home. Where a downspout feeds an underground drain line, we check that water leaves at the outlet and tell you if it does not. Clearing a buried line is a separate job and we quote it before anyone touches it.
Yes. Gutter guards keep leaves out of the gutter system, but on our jobs we find needles, seeds, seed casings and grit sitting on top of the guard, and once that mat is wet, rain runs off the front edge. We lift the panels, clean underneath and reseat them.
If a clean gutter still sheets water over the edge in rain, the problem is usually slope, capacity or downspout size, not a clog, and water left running down the wall can work into the fascia board and rot it. 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, you hear it and agree to it before they start. The balance is charged when the job is finished and the photos are on your phone.
Stories, size and a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
