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 done together cost less than booking two separate trips. Spring and fall are when Dover houses usually get it, when the leaves and grit are heaviest, and the number we give on the phone is the number we charge.
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 direct answer is this: we price by the number of stories and the approximate window count, and a window and gutter cleaning booked as one visit costs less than two separate jobs. Call (866) 435-6328 with the story count and a rough window count, and the number we give you is the number we charge. Quotes come from the figures you give us, and we confirm them with a photo of the front of the house sent by text before the crew is booked.
What moves the quote is what the crew finds on the day. A third story or a steep roof means more time and a longer reach. Window count and oversized panes add time on the glass, and multi-story buildings add time at every level. Gutters that have not been cleaned in years, or that are packed with needles and leaves, take longer to clear. Gutter guards that have to be lifted and reseated add time too. Hard-water spotting from sprinklers is a separate problem that cleaning does not remove, and we say so up front. Clearing gutters and downspouts, rinsing screens and wiping sills are part of the job and are not billed as extras. The glass is cleaned with purified water rather than cleaning solutions, and a quote never mixes interior and exterior glass, since this visit is exterior only.
The quote moves for the same reasons on every house: the number of stories, the window count, and how much pollen and debris is packed into the gutters. The crew photographs each run before and after and sends the photos before leaving. Residential and commercial buildings are priced the same way, by story count and window count. For a house in town with few trees, the starting point is usually the simplest, and the figure comes from what you tell us about the house. There is no need to measure anything; a photo of the front and an honest count of stories is enough to get a number. Before any visit we ask about the glass, since picture windows take more care and more time than standard sash windows. Regular cleanings keep the work quicker, because a gutter cleared every season holds far less than one left for two years.
| Gutters only | Exterior windows only | Both in one visit | |
|---|---|---|---|
| One story | from $150 | from $150 | from $240 |
| Two stories | from $195 | from $210 | from $325 |
| Three stories | from $255 | from $285 | from $430 |
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.
The usual schedule for a Dover house is two visits a year, in late spring and again in the fall, and one crew in one visit makes that simple. Spring is when the pollen film settles on south-facing glass and the paste sits in the gutter elbows. Fall is the wet leaf mat that the first hard rains turn into a sagging, sodden load. Across Delaware the storm season brings nor'easters, tropical remnants and summer thunderstorms, and those can move both dates, so we check the calendar with you each time.
Some houses need a third visit, and we say so after the first one. Heavy tree cover over the roof drops needles and grit into the downspouts between visits, and clogged gutters are how water damage starts, because the water has nowhere to go but over the edge and down the siding. Houses like that usually need a visit every three to four months. A sprinkler line that hits the glass leaves the round spots that come back a day after cleaning; that is a mineral problem, not dirt. A house near a busy road or a construction site gets a film on the glass that builds up faster than usual.
A house with no trees over the roof can often get by with one visit a year, while a house under heavy cover and sprinkler spotting may need three or four. The schedule follows the lot, and we adjust it as the seasons go. You can usually tell a window needs cleaning by a haze you only notice when the sun is low, and gutters need it when water sheets over the edge in a steady rain instead of running down the downspout. If you see either, call (866) 435-6328 and we will look at the schedule with you.
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 clean residential properties across Dover. Every estimate starts with a call or text giving the number of stories and a photo of the house front, and our residential window and gutter cleaning is quoted from that. Lead time depends on the calendar at the time of your call, and we tell you the next open date when you book. Spring and fall are the busiest seasons, so booking early in those months gets you a slot sooner. Call (866) 435-6328 to schedule service.
Nobody needs to be home for exterior work. The crew does not come inside, and we call before we come. We schedule service around the weather, since rain stops the work on the glass, and we will move a date rather than clean in wind. The whole job is one visit for a standard house, and every window on the outside is cleaned, from the ground floor up, with the upper stories done from the pole rather than a ladder leaned on the siding. Professional window cleaning means the glass is done last, after the gutters. The clean windows we leave behind are the point of the visit, and the sill and frame are wiped with them.
Yes. Our washing services cover both, and the same two people do the gutters and the outside of the windows in one visit, gutters first and glass last. Splitting the job across two companies usually means two trips and two setups, which is the main reason we bundle it.
We do not quote our window cleaning services over the internet. The number comes from the stories and the approximate window count, and we give it by phone or text. Send us the count and a photo of the front of the house, and the number we quote is the number on the invoice.
It is, because the outside takes most of what dulls the glass here: road dust, a spring film, and sprinkler spotting where a line hits the pane. The inside stays clean longer when the outside is clean. Cleaning the outside also helps remove dirt before it reaches the frame, and the grime on the outside is what the street sees first, so it is most of your curb appeal.
Late spring and the fall are the usual times, when the film and the leaves are heaviest. If you want the first visit done before the spring film builds, call (866) 435-6328 early in the season. A third visit is worth considering only if the house sits under heavy tree cover.
Not if the order is right. When a gutter is cleared, the leaves and the black runoff run down the wall and across any window below, so we clear the gutters and downspouts first, let the wall stop dripping, and only then clean the glass. That is the reason for the order we use.
Screens are rinsed and put back on request, sills are wiped, and frames are done as part of the visit. Tracks that need more than a wipe are noted before the crew starts, so nothing is a surprise on the invoice. Condos get the same work, and the crew confirms the access before the first ladder goes up.
No. We do not clean windows inside the house, and pressure washing is not part of this visit. The quote covers the exterior glass only, so the interior and exterior work is never mixed into one price. The crew does not come inside.
No. The crew works from the outside and does not come inside, so you can be out. Turning the sprinklers off the night before helps the glass dry clean, and a clear gate and driveway make the visit quicker.
Stories, rough window count, a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
