Yes, the same two people clean the gutters and the outside of your windows in one visit, gutters first and glass last, so nothing from the roofline lands on clean glass. We price the job by the number of stories and the approximate window count, and booking both together in one visit costs less than two separate trips. Across California, most of the homes we work on are booked for both in the spring and the fall, and our San Anselmo crew keeps to 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 gutter and window cleaning by the number of stories and the approximate window count, and the bundle in one visit costs less than booking the two jobs separately. The number we give you on the phone is the number on the invoice. Stories and window count set the starting point for where a house lands. Residential properties in San Anselmo are quoted the same way.
On our jobs, what moves the quote is what the crew finds on the day. A third story or a steep roof takes longer on the ladder and the boom or scissor lift. Oversized panes, picture windows and many small panes add time. Gutters that have not been cleaned in years, packed with needles, leaves and grime, need more hauling, and the runoff they hold has to be flushed before the run is clear. Gutter guards must be lifted and reseated before the run can be cleared. Hard-water spotting from sprinklers is left on the glass by a cleaning, so it is quoted separately after the crew sees it. Gutters and downspouts are cleared on every visit, and downspout flushing, screen rinsing and sill wiping are part of the job and are not billed as extras.
Across California we ask for the same three things before we quote: the number of stories, a rough window count, and a photo of the front of the house sent by text. On a San Anselmo house the photo tells us how close the trees are to the roof and whether the run is gutter-guarded, which is most of what a number depends on. A house or one of the condos with heavy tree cover on the roof will run more visits. Our window cleaning services, like the window washing and washing services we list, cover the glass only, and they remove dirt from the glass, not the sprinkler line. With those three details we can give you a number by phone.
To schedule service, call (866) 435-6328 or text us a photo of the front of the house, and we will book 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 of the homes we service book window and gutter cleaning twice a year, in the spring and the fall, and the two jobs ride on the same calendar. Our spring visit across California falls in mid to late June, and by then the pollen film sits on south-facing glass and the downspout elbows are packed with it. Cleaning solutions are not needed for that film, since purified water takes it off. The fall visit runs late November to December, and that is when the leaf load from the first hard rains sits in the runs. Storm and wind seasons move these dates a few weeks in either direction, so we call before we come.
Some houses need a third visit. Heavy tree cover over the roof keeps the gutters packed between visits. A sprinkler line that hits the glass leaves spots that come back a day after a cleaning. A house close to a busy road or a construction site collects more grit on the window sills. Interior and exterior glass are priced separately, so the visit covers only the outside. We see these on our jobs, and we tell you on the first visit which of them your house has.
The cleanings we do for a single house and the regular cleanings we book for the year follow the same order: gutters first, glass last. For a house with few or no trees, one visit a year in late fall is usually enough. Our customers who have the picture windows at the front of the house often book both jobs together so the glass is done once the gutters are clear. Nobody needs to be home for exterior work. The same schedule holds for residential and commercial buildings alike.
You can tell the windows need it when there is a haze on the glass you only see when the sun is low, and you can tell the gutters need it when water sheets over the edge in a hard rain instead of running down the downspout. Clean windows show the sky clearly, so the haze is the first thing a customer notices.
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.
We have cleaned gutters and windows across San Anselmo, and unlike many window cleaners the crew books by the house rather than by the block. Booking starts with an estimate by phone at (866) 435-6328 or by text: the number of stories, a rough window count, and a photo of the house front. Lead time depends on the season and is set when you book. The two busy windows are the spring months and the fall leaf months, when our calendar fills first, so the earlier you call the sooner a slot opens.
Professional window cleaning on a San Anselmo house is done from the outside only, and the crew never comes in, so nobody needs to be home. We call before we come, and we send photos of every run and every window before the truck leaves. Our window cleaning services cover exterior glass and the gutter runs on the same visit. The crew does not clean windows inside the house, so interior and exterior glass are separate jobs.
Clean windows come from purified water run through a water-fed pole, with no cleaning solutions and no streaks, and the frame and the sill come out clean too. A clean gutter run keeps water away from the wall, so the windows below it are not left with runoff. Clogged gutters cause more water damage than most homeowners expect, and a regular visit keeps that from starting. Curb appeal is what the reader sees first from the street, and a clean roofline and clean glass together make the house look kept.
The gutters-first order holds on residential and commercial jobs alike, so the multi-story buildings on our list take the boom or scissor lift for the upper runs, and the crew sets it up on the same visit so both jobs are done once.
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 what comes off the roof does not land on clean glass.
We give the number by phone or text from the number of stories and the approximate window count. For a residential window job, those two details are enough to start, because the size of the house and what is in the gutters decide the rest.
On residential properties in San Anselmo the outside carries most of the dirt: pollen in the spring, rain dust, and sprinkler spots. Cleaning the inside does not remove dirt from the outside of the pane, so clean windows start outside.
Most of our San Anselmo customers book in the spring and again in the fall, and the calendar fills first then. Call (866) 435-6328 to schedule service early in those windows.
No, as long as the gutters are done first. When we clear a run, the grit and the black water come down the wall, so the gutters and downspouts are cleared first, and only then do we touch the glass.
Screens are rinsed, and the sill is wiped as part of the job. Tracks are wiped with it, and none of these are billed as extras.
Exterior only on this visit, and interior and exterior glass are separate jobs. We do not clean the windows inside the house, and pressure washing is not part of this visit.
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. We photograph every window before the crew leaves.
Stories, rough window count, a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
