Yes, the same two people clean your gutters and the outside of your windows in one visit, gutters first and glass last. We price it by the number of stories and the approximate window count, and both jobs done together cost less than booking them as two separate trips. On our Nipomo jobs, most customers book this in the spring and again in the fall, when the leaves and dust have built up on the glass and in the gutters. Tell us your stories and roughly how many windows you have at (866) 435-6328, and we will give you the number on the phone.
Priced by stories, not by a visit. The bundle costs less than two trips, and the number on the phone is the number on the invoice.
The number we give you on the phone is the number on the invoice. We price the job by stories and approximate window count, and we book gutters and exterior windows as one visit because one crew on one set of ladders costs less than two trips. Ask for the bundle quote and we will show you the saving against the two jobs booked separately. Many homeowners compare our window washing number with other window cleaners and cleaning services, so check what each quote includes before you pick.
Several things move the quote on our jobs. A third story or a roof steep enough that the crew cannot walk it adds time on the ladder. Window count and oversized panes change the glass work, and picture windows take longer than a standard sash. A run of clogged gutters that has not been opened in years, packed with needles and leaves, takes longer to clear and flush. Gutter guards have to be lifted and reseated before the run can be cleaned. Hard-water spotting from sprinklers is a separate problem, because cleaning does not remove it, and we say so before we quote it. The ladder work changes on multi-story buildings, so we quote those by the building. Downspout flushing, screen rinsing and sill wiping are part of the job and are not billed as extras.
Professional window cleaning quotes on a Nipomo house usually come from the front of the house alone, because the crew can tell from it what the number will be. A clean photo of the front, sent by text, gets you a closer number before the crew is booked. Most of the time the surprise on a dirty job is not the glass but the water damage that shows up at the fascia once the gutter is open, and we photograph that and report it rather than selling you a repair. Cleaning the windows inside is a separate job we do not quote on this visit. For a house with curb appeal as the main goal, the outside glass and the gutter line together change how the whole front reads.
| Gutters only | Exterior windows only | Both in one visit | |
|---|---|---|---|
| One story | from $150 | from $170 | from $275 |
| Two stories | from $225 | from $240 | from $375 |
| Three stories | from $295 | from $330 | from $495 |
For context, nationally. Angi puts the average US gutter cleaning at $168, most homeowners paying $119 to $234 (Angi, 2026). Exterior-only window cleaning runs roughly $4 to $10 per window, or $100 to $250 for a typical home, with $3 to $5 per window more on upper stories (Angi, HomeGuide, via Google AI Overview, Oct 2026). Priced by stories, the most common model, a two-story gutter cleaning sits around $150 to $300 nationally. If a quote you are holding sits far outside these, ask what is driving it.
On every house we work, the first scoop out of a gutter ends up on the wall below it. We put the glass last so it ends up there once.
Gutters first, glass last. That is the order on every job our crew does, and it is the reason we book both with one crew instead of sending two.
What we see from the ladder. When we clear a run, the leaves, the grit and the black water that sits under them come down the wall and across any window below it. Flushing a downspout throws more of it, in a stream, onto the panes beside the outlet. If the glass was washed first, someone has to wash them again before we are off the ladder. So we do the roof blow-off, clear the gutters, flush every downspout, give the wall a few minutes to stop dripping, and only then start on the glass. The panes under the downspout outlets are the last ones we touch on the house.
Two things we do differently from a window-only crew. We rinse the siding under each run before we move to the glass, so nothing left on the wall washes down onto it in the first rain. And we do the top-floor glass from the same ladder position as the gutter run, one setup per side of the house, which is where the bundle saving comes from: no second trip, no second setup.
Downspouts flushed, screens rinsed, sills wiped, bags hauled. None of it shows up as a line item.
Gutters. Roof blow-off where debris sits above the gutter line. Every run hand-cleared, not just the visible stretch from the ground. Every downspout flushed with water until it runs clear, and a blocked one cleared on the spot where it can be reached from above. A downspout that feeds a buried drain line is checked at the outlet; clearing the buried line is a separate job, quoted before anyone touches it. Debris bagged and taken away. Before-and-after photos of each run, sent to you before the crew leaves.
Windows, exterior only. Every reachable pane on the outside of the house, cleaned with a water-fed pole and purified water so the glass dries without streaks or towel lint. Frames wiped. Screens taken down, hand-rinsed and put back on request. Sills wiped. Upper-story windows done from the pole, not from a ladder leaned on the siding.
Not included, and we say so up front. Interior glass. Hard-water or sprinkler staining etched into the glass, which needs a separate mineral treatment and is quoted after the crew sees it. Post-construction paint, stickers or stucco. Skylights and solar panels. Pressure washing of siding, decks or driveways. Gutter guards: if a run is covered, lifting and reseating the guard adds time and is quoted by the foot before the visit, never on the day.
Twice a year for both, and the same two months, which is why one visit covers it.
On our Nipomo jobs, most customers book both services twice a year, once in the spring and once in the fall, which is why one crew in one visit makes sense for most homes. For residential window work the rhythm is the same: the seed and pollen drop in spring leaves a film on every window that faces south, and a paste in the gutter elbows. In fall it is the leaf load, which packs the downspouts and sits wet on every sill until the first rains.
Some houses need a third visit, so ask us to schedule service for it when you book the first one. Heavy tree cover over the roof means needles and grit pack the downspouts between visits. A sprinkler line that hits the glass leaves spots that come back a day after cleaning, and those need a mineral treatment instead of another wipe. Dust builds faster on residential properties near a busy road or a construction site than on a quiet street. Each of these shows up on the first visit, and we tell you which of them applies to your house.
Keeping to a twice-a-year schedule, with regular cleanings on both dates, catches most of this before it builds up. Watch for two signs. Clean windows should look clear in the morning light, so haze that shows only when the sun is low means it is time to book. Gutters need cleaning when water sheets over the edge in the rain. Storm and wind seasons can move these dates, so the booking is a conversation, not a calendar fixed on your wall.
Most two-story homes are done in a morning. You do not need to be there, and you get the photos either way.
The crew calls the day before with a two-hour arrival window, and again when they are on the way.
How long. This Old House puts a professional gutter cleaning at 30 minutes to an hour on a typical house. Exterior windows on the same house run about the same again or a little more, so plan on a morning for a two-story home and most of a day for three stories or a house with a lot of glass. Gutters that have not been touched in years, steep roofs and wraparound porches run longer.
Before the crew arrives. Turn the sprinklers off the night before, so the glass is dry and the ground is not mud. Move cars off the driveway if windows face it. Keep pets inside while ladders are up. Unlock side gates. Nothing else; the crew brings its own water and power.
While they work. Gutters first, glass last, as described above. Nobody needs to be home for exterior work; the crew does not come inside. If something cannot be reached safely (a pane over a sunroom roof, a gutter run behind a tree limb) the crew photographs it and tells you rather than guessing.
After. Photos of every gutter run and the finished glass, sent by text or email before the crew leaves. The invoice matches the number quoted on the phone.
Send a photo and we tell you what it is. No argument about whether it rained.
Streaks. Purified water dries clean; a streak means something was missed, and that is on us. Send us a photo of it and we tell you what it is.
Spots that come back. Round white spots that return a day after cleaning are mineral deposits from sprinklers or hard water etched into the glass, not dirt. Cleaning cannot remove them; a mineral treatment can. The crew flags it on the visit so you are not surprised.
Rain the next day. Rain is distilled water and does not dirty clean glass by itself; what spots glass after rain is dust already on the frame or screen washing down. That is why frames and screens are done, not just the pane. If it looks worse after a storm, send the photo and we look at it.
Overflow after a cleaning. If a gutter runs clean and still sheets water over the edge in the next rain, the cause is slope, a sagging hanger or an undersized downspout, not debris. The crew notes what it saw and tells you; cleaning it again will not fix it, and we will not sell you a second cleaning for a slope problem.
Your house. Ladder stand-offs on every ladder so nothing rests on the gutter lip or dents the siding. Screens go back in the window they came out of.
Neighborhood by neighborhood, with a lead time we say out loud, and a call before the truck turns in.
Booking starts with a call to (866) 435-6328 or a text giving us your stories and a rough window count, plus a photo of the house front. We book the crew for a slot, and we call before we come. Nobody needs to be home for exterior work; the crew stays outside and does not come inside.
The two busy windows of the year, the spring bloom and the fall leaf fall, are when our calendar fills, so if you want to schedule service in those months, book early. Between them the calendar opens up. Lead time depends on the season and the crew's route through town, and we give you the actual date when you book.
We provide window cleaning services for single-family homes, condos and small multi-unit buildings, and we handle residential and commercial jobs on the same booking line. Gutters and downspouts pick up runoff and grime that sits against the wall and drips down the glass, so the two jobs belong on the same visit. We also work with customers who want to remove dirt from the windows on a commercial storefront, and our washing services for those are quoted by building.
Yes. Our crew does both, gutters first and glass last, so the dirty runoff from the gutters does not end up on the clean windows. It is one visit on one set of ladders.
We do not give a figure on the web because the number depends on stories and size, and it is quoted separately for residential and commercial properties. Call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the front of the house, and we will quote it from those.
Usually the outside is where the pollen, rain dust and sprinkler spots collect in Nipomo. Interior and exterior glass are separate jobs, and on this visit we do the exterior only.
Most of our Nipomo customers book in spring and again in fall, which keeps the regular cleanings on the same two dates each year. Booking in those windows fills up, so ask for the earliest slot when you call.
Not on our jobs, because we clean the gutters first and the glass last. The water from clogged gutters is the source, and the leaves and grit come down the wall when one is cleared, so the glass has to wait until that is done.
Screens are rinsed, sills are wiped and the tracks are cleaned as part of the window job, and picture windows get the same treatment. None of that is billed as an extra line item.
We clean the exterior glass only on this visit. We do not do interior glass or pressure washing, and mineral treatments for hard-water stains use different cleaning solutions, so those would need a separate job.
No, you do not need to be home. Turn off sprinklers the night before, move cars off the driveway if windows face it, and keep pets inside while the ladders are up.
Stories, rough window count, a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
