Yes, the same two people clean the 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 doing both in one visit costs less than booking two separate trips. On our Oakley jobs most customers book this in the spring and fall, the two times a year the glass and the gutters need it most. Tell us the stories and a rough window count, and we give you the number before the crew is scheduled.
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.
We price our window washing services by the number of stories and the approximate window count, the bundle done in one visit costs less than booking the two jobs separately, and the number we give on the phone is the number we charge. Those three things set the quote, and we confirm them with a photo of the front of the house sent by text before we book the date.
What moves the quote is what the crew finds on the day. A third story or a steep roof means a boom or scissor lift and more time on the gutter run. A house with a lot of window glass, picture windows and oversized panes, takes longer than the same square footage in small sashes. Clogged gutters, the kind that have not been opened in years and are packed with needles and leaves, take the most time to clear. Gutter guards must be lifted and reseated before anything underneath can be cleaned. Hard-water spotting from sprinklers is a separate problem that no cleaning removes, and we say so before we quote it.
Downspout flushing, screen rinsing and sill wiping are part of the job and are not billed as extras. Regular cleanings keep the quote lower over time, because a gutter cleared twice a year holds far less grime, and each visit has less to remove dirt from. We quote exterior glass only, and interior and exterior work is never folded into the same number without you knowing. On the outside glass alone, the work is the same whether the house is older or newer.
On our Oakley jobs, one customer with a two-story house and a row of picture windows along the back got the bundle in one visit. What moved the quote was the back run, which sits high on a walk-out, and the window count on the second floor. The number they got on the phone matched the invoice. Nothing in the house was surprising once the crew had the stories and a photo in hand.
To get your exact number for our window cleaning services, send us the stories, a rough window count, and a photo of the front of the house. Text it to (866) 435-6328 and we will come back with the figure before you commit to a date.
| 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.
Most of our Oakley customers book both twice a year, once in the spring and once in the fall, which is why one crew in one visit makes sense. Across California the calendar is the same idea for window and gutter work, residential and commercial alike: the glass and gutters pick up the season's debris in two main waves, and the bundled visit catches both at once.
In the spring, the pollen film on south-facing glass is the first thing we see, and the grit that washes into the gutters is the second. Left alone, the pollen film binds to the glass and gets worse with each rain. The leaf load comes in the fall, when the wet leaf mat packs into the downspout elbows. Clogged gutters hold water against the fascia, and that is where water damage starts. Storm and wind seasons can move these dates by a few weeks, so we book against what the roof looks like rather than the calendar alone.
Some houses need a third visit. Heavy tree cover over the roof puts needles and grit into the gutters between visits, and those houses do better on three or four cleanings a year. A sprinkler line hitting the glass leaves round spots that come back a day after cleaning, and the cleaning solutions that suit those spots are chosen once the crew has looked at them. Multi-story buildings near a busy road or a construction site collect more dust on the frames and sills, and they fill faster than a quiet street. Upper runs on multi-story buildings also take more time, and the crew plans for that before the date.
One customer on twice a year with no trees around the house has had the same schedule since the first visit, and the gutters have never overflowed in rain. Another customer with heavy shade and sprinkler spotting moved to three visits a year after the second season, and the glass stayed clear between cleanings. Both schedules came from what the crew found, not from a rule we apply to every house.
Haze you only notice when the sun is low, on the glass as you drive out in the morning, is the sign the outside glass needs it. Windows inside need their own wipe, and that is not part of this visit. Water sheeting over the edge of the gutter in a rain is the sign the gutters need it, and if you see that, the run is past due.
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.
Our window cleaners work throughout Oakley and the houses around it, and every window and gutter run gets the same order of work. Booking starts with a call or a text. To schedule service, give us the number of stories and send a photo of the house front, and we confirm the estimate and the lead time. We schedule the visit against the calendar, and when the two busy windows of the year arrive, the spring season and the fall leaf season, the calendar fills first, so book early. Clean glass also does much of the work for curb appeal on the front of a house.
We call before we come, and we confirm the arrival window the day before. Nobody needs to be home for exterior work. The crew does not come inside, and the photos of each run and each pane are sent to you before the truck leaves. The result is a window and gutter job that is done once, correctly, and documented, which is what most property owners want from professional window cleaning services.
We clean residential and commercial properties the same way on the outside. If you manage a building, we handle it per building, on the schedule that suits the property, and the report lists each run and pane. The point is a schedule you can plan around and a result you can see for yourself.
Yes, window and gutter cleaning is done by the same two people on the same visit. We do the gutters first and the glass last, so the dirty water from the gutters does not end up on clean windows below.
The number comes from the stories and the size of the house. Call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the front, and we give you the figure before you book.
Yes, because the outside takes the rain dust, runoff from the roof and sprinkler spots between visits. Those sit on the glass whether or not the inside is clean.
Our customers here book in spring and fall, after the spring dust settles and after the leaves come down. Those are the two times the gutters and glass need it most.
No, because we clean the gutters and downspouts first, flush every downspout, let the wall stop dripping, and only then start on the windows. Runoff from the roof has stopped by the time we reach the glass.
Screens are rinsed, sills are wiped, and tracks are part of the job on the outside glass, so none of it is billed as an extra.
We clean the exterior glass only on this visit. We do not clean inside the windows or do pressure washing on this visit. The same exterior-only visit covers condos and other residential properties.
No, you do not need to be home. Turn the sprinklers off the night before, move cars off the driveway, keep pets inside, and leave the side gate unlocked.
Stories, rough window count, a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
