Yes, the same two people clean your gutters and the outside of your windows in one visit. We do the gutters first and the glass last, so nothing washed off the roof lands on clean panes. We price by the number of stories and the approximate window count, and doing both jobs together in one visit costs less than booking two separate trips. Across California, most of the homes we clean get their glass and gutters done in the spring and fall, and we keep the same order on every house.
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 the job by the number of stories and the approximate window count, and the bundle of gutters and exterior glass in one visit costs less than booking the two jobs separately. Professional window cleaning and window washing go into that one number. The number we give on the phone is the number on the invoice. Downspout flushing, screen rinsing and sill wiping are part of the job and are not billed as extras.
What moves the quote is what the crew finds on the day. A third story or a steep roof takes longer on the ladder. Large or oversized panes take more time per window than standard ones. Gutters that have not been opened in years, or packed with needles and leaves, need more clearing before any water can run through them. Gutter guards must be lifted and reseated before the run can be cleaned, and hard-water spotting from sprinklers is a separate treatment that no cleaning removes. The price covers the outside glass only, so none of the windows inside the house are part of the quote. Clean glass and open runs also do most of the work for curb appeal, which is the part a neighbor sees from the street.
Here is how the quote gets built. Call (866) 435-6328 or send us a text with a photo of the front of the house and tell us the number of stories, and we will come back with an estimate. Without a photo we will ask for a rough window count and whether any run is covered. On a house where we have worked in the past, we already know the layout, so the estimate is closer to the final figure. Water damage shows up when clogged gutters have been left to overflow, and we flag any staining or soft fascia in the photos rather than billing for it as a repair.
Our experience here is scoped to the houses we clean across California. Pricing depends on the same measures on every house: how many stories, how many windows, and what is sitting in the gutters. Text a photo of the front of the house, your story count and a rough window count, and we will give you the exact number before the crew is scheduled. Ask for a written estimate so you have the same figure in writing before anyone books 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.
Across California, most residential window and gutter cleaning services we book get done in the spring and in the fall, which is why one crew doing both in one visit makes sense. Spring is when the tree dust comes down, and fall is when the leaves do. Those are the two times of year the job changes most, so we plan the visits around them.
What we find at each visit follows the calendar. In the spring, the pollen settles as a film on south-facing glass, even on clean windows, and packs into the gutter elbows as a paste. In the fall, the leaves fall into a wet mat that sits in the runs and blocks the downspouts. Storms and strong winds can shift the timing, and a big storm before a visit usually means more debris in the gutters than the calendar would suggest.
Some residential properties need a third visit. Heavy tree cover over the roof puts needles and grit into the downspouts between visits. A sprinkler line that hits the glass leaves spots that come back a day after cleaning, and those need a separate look. A house near a busy road or a construction site collects more dust on the glass and in the gutters than a quiet street does. Multi-story buildings with runs at height also tend to need the earlier spring visit.
You will know the window needs attention when there is a haze you only notice when the sun is low, and the gutters need attention when water runs over the edge in the rain instead of into the downspout. We look at every window for those signs on each visit, and we tell you what we find before we schedule service for the next one.
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 cleaning services and washing services cover the city as a whole, and the estimate is the same whichever part of town the house is in. Book by calling (866) 435-6328 or by text, and send the number of stories and a photo of the house front so we can give you a firm number. Most estimates are answered within the same business day, and the lead time for a crew depends on the season, so ask for the next open date when you call. We call before we come, so you are never surprised by a truck in the driveway.
The busy windows are the spring and the fall, when the tree dust and the leaves arrive and the calendar fills. Booking early in those months gives you a better choice of date, and it means the grime from the season comes off sooner. Nobody needs to be home for the exterior work, and the crew works from the outside only, so there is nothing inside the house to move. We also do the same job for condos and multi-unit buildings, where the crew coordinates access to the common runs.
On a multi-unit property, the crew can clean the gutters and downspouts on the whole building in one pass, which keeps the runoff off the lower floors and helps remove dirt from the walls below. For a single home, the same visit covers the full run and the outside of the glass. If you want a second opinion on a roof or a fascia, we will note what we see and leave the decision to you.
Yes. The same two people clean the gutters and the outside of the windows in one visit. We do the gutters first and the glass last, so the water and debris from the roof do not land on clean panes. The order is the same on residential and commercial buildings, including the multi-unit ones.
We do not give a figure here. The number comes from the stories, the size of the house and the number of picture windows, and we give it by phone or text. Text a photo of the front of the house and tell us the window count, and you will have the exact number before we book.
Usually yes, because the outside carries the rain dust and the sprinkler spots that build up between visits. Regular cleanings of the outside keep that buildup from showing, and cleaning the inside will not remove those. So the outside is the part that changes how the glass looks from the street.
Across California, most of our customers book in the spring and in the fall. Those are the two windows when the pollen and the leaves come down, so booking early in each gives you a better choice of date.
No, as long as the order is gutters first and glass last. When a run is cleared, the leaves, the grit and the black water come down the wall, so we rinse the siding and let it drain before we start on the glass.
Screens are rinsed and sills are wiped as part of the exterior job, and we do not bill them as extras. Tracks are included in the exterior visit as far as they can be reached from outside.
Not on this visit. We clean the exterior glass only, and we do not do pressure washing on this visit. Interior and exterior glass are booked as two separate jobs, and the inside is never part of this visit. For the exterior, the cleaning solutions are purified water from a water-fed pole, so nothing is left to dry as a film. If you need the inside done, tell us when you call and we will note it for a separate booking.
No, you do not need to be home. Turn the sprinklers off the night before, move cars off the driveway if the windows face it, and keep pets inside while the ladders are up. Leave the side gate unlocked, and that is the whole list.
Stories, rough window count, a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
