Yes, the same two people clean the gutters and the outside of the windows in one visit, gutters first and glass last. We price it by the number of stories, and both jobs in one visit cost less than booking them as two separate trips. Across California, most of our customers book it in spring and again in fall.
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 by the number of stories and the approximate window count, and the bundle in one visit costs less than booking the two jobs separately. Call (866) 435-6328 with the stories and window count, and the number we give you is the number we charge.
On our jobs, what moves the quote is what the crew finds on the day. A steep roof or a third story takes more time on the ladder. A large window count or oversized panes adds work to the glass. Gutters that have not been cleaned in years and are packed with needles and leaves take longer to clear. Gutter guards that have to be lifted and reseated add time. Hard-water spotting from sprinklers is etched into the glass, and no cleaning removes it. Downspout flushing, screen rinsing and sill wiping are part of the job and are not billed as extras.
Across California, the quote comes from the house itself. Tell us the number of stories and the window count, and text a photo of the front of the house. That is enough for us to give you the exact number before a crew is booked. We do not quote a neighborhood average. We do not charge extra for the window cleaning services you already get in the same visit, the gutters and downspouts included. The washing services on the glass are part of that price, so there is no separate window washing charge. Tree sap and runoff stains are the usual case, and those can take a little more time than a light dust job. If grime has built up for several seasons, the crew has to remove dirt in layers, so plan on a longer visit. A condos complex or a row of picture windows is quoted per building, not per pane, so tell us about shared walls and common areas when you call. The job is the same whether it is a single house or a set of units, and we will say so before we start.
| 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 customers book both jobs twice a year, once in spring and once in fall, which is why one crew in one visit makes sense for the calendar.
What we find at each visit follows the seasons. In spring, south-facing glass carries a pollen film, and the gutters hold pollen paste that packs the downspout elbows. In fall the leaf load builds up, and wind and storm seasons move the dates a little either way. Heavy tree cover over the roof, a sprinkler line that hits the glass, or a house near a busy road or construction often needs a third visit. Sprinkler spots return a day after cleaning, which is the sign a third visit is needed.
The window and gutter visit is the same job every time, but the spring load is what tells us where the film is heaviest. Cleaning solutions do not replace a clean rinse, and we use purified water on the glass. Most customers who keep to a regular cleanings schedule see less buildup over the year. Whether you live in a house with picture windows, a set of residential and commercial units, or a home you only clean from the outside, the same schedule holds for interior and exterior glass.
Watch for two signs. For windows, it is a haze you only see when the sun is low, on glass you thought was clean. For gutters, it is water sheeting over the edge in rain. Either one means the visit is 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.
We book Santa Clara on our own crew schedule, and most of our work here is for houses with the outside of the windows and the gutters due at the same visit. Our window cleaners and gutter crew are the same people, so one estimate covers both. Booking starts with an estimate by phone or text. Call (866) 435-6328 to schedule service, or send us the number of stories and a photo of the house front, and the crew calls you back with the time window. Lead time is set by the calendar that week, and we will give you the day when you call.
The two busy windows are spring and fall, when the leaves and spring dust bring the most calls, and the calendar fills up fast. Book early in those months and you get the date you want. Clean glass and clear gutters do most of the work for curb appeal, so the visit is planned around the front of the house first. The cleaning services we run for Santa Clara are the same crew and the same work throughout the city, so a visit here looks the same whether it is a standard house or one of the larger buildings. Professional window cleaning is what we do, not a side job added to a gutter company.
We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for exterior work. The quote covers the outside only, so the windows inside are not part of it. If a house has clogged gutters that have been left a long time, or water damage showing on the fascia, we photograph it and tell you before we touch anything. We do not work on multi-story buildings in the same way as a single house, and we say up front if a job needs a lift.
Yes, it is the same crew, and it is one visit. The people who clean the gutters are the people who clean the outside of the windows, in the same trip. Gutters first, glass last, so nothing runoff from the gutters lands on clean glass.
The number comes from stories and size, and we give it by phone or text before a crew is booked. We will not give you a figure here because every window and every house is different.
The outside is usually what carries the most here: tree sap, rain dust, and sprinkler spots. A clean inside and a dirty outside still shows the dirt through the glass, so the outside is the part most people notice. Is it worth it? If the outside stays dirty, yes.
Spring and fall are when most residential window customers in Santa Clara book, and that is when the spring dust and leaf loads are heaviest. Across California, most customers book the same two visits.
Gutters first, glass last. The leaves, grit and black water under them come down the wall and across any window below, so the glass is the last thing we touch. We learned the hard way on a job where a window crew washed the glass first and the gutter crew came after, and the glass had to be done again.
When we clean windows, the screens, sills and tracks come with them in the same visit, and none of that is billed as an extra. We rinse the screens, wipe the sills, and clean the tracks as part of the job.
On residential properties we clean exterior glass only, and the visit stops there. We do not clean inside the windows, and we do not do pressure washing. Those are separate jobs we do not take on this trip.
No, you do not need to be home. Turn the sprinklers off the night before, move cars off the driveway if windows face it, keep pets inside while the ladders are up, and unlock the side gate. That is the whole list.
Stories, rough window count, a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
