Yes, the same two people clean your gutters and the outside of your windows in one visit, gutters first and glass last. We price it by stories and approximate window count, and doing both together costs less than booking two separate trips. Our crew has been cleaning Algonquin homes through the spring and fall, when most of our customers book. Call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the house front for a written estimate.
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 number we give you on the phone is the number on the invoice, and it comes from two things: how many stories the house has and roughly how many windows it carries. Booking gutters and exterior glass together in one visit comes in below what two separate window cleaners would charge for two days of work, and we will show you the difference when we quote. Both professional window cleaning and window washing of the outside glass use the same stories and window count as the gutter quote, so you get one number. Clean gutters and clean glass both add to curb appeal, and one setup covers the two jobs.
On the day, the crew finds what drives the quote. A third story or a roof too steep to walk means more time on the ladder and a boom or scissor lift for the back run. Oversized panes and picture windows take more handling than standard sashes. Gutters nobody has opened in years, or packed with needles and leaves, need more flushing before they run clear, and clogged gutters always cost more time than the ones we clear every season. Gutter guards that have to be lifted and reseated add time too. Hard-water spotting from a sprinkler line hitting the glass will not come off with a cleaning, and we tell you that before we start. Downspout flushing, screen rinsing and sill wiping are part of the job and are never billed as extras, while windows inside the house are a separate job and not on this quote.
The outside of the glass can carry more than people expect. Sprinkler spotting, pollen film and water damage at the sill edge all sit on the same panes, and each one changes how long the glass takes. Text a photo of the front of your house and we will tell you where the time goes.
| 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.
Across Illinois, spring and fall are the two visits that matter most for a residential window and gutter job, and you can schedule service for both with one crew. Our cleaning services follow the same order on every visit, gutters first and glass last. In spring the pollen film settles on south-facing glass and the pollen paste packs the downspout elbows. In fall it is the leaf load, and on houses that skip that visit we see gutter runs sagging under the first ice. Storm and wind season can move both dates, and we call before we come. Clean windows show the difference most in low sun, so we check every window for film before the crew packs up.
Some houses need a third visit. Heavy tree cover over the roof means needles and grit pack the downspouts between visits. A sprinkler line that hits the glass leaves spots that come back a day after cleaning, and a house near a busy road or a construction site picks up a film faster than the rest. Houses with little or no tree cover usually do fine with the twice-a-year schedule. Windows tell you they need attention when there is a haze you only notice when the sun is low, and gutters tell you when water sheets over the edge in the rain. Call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the house, and we will pick the spring or fall date 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.
Booking starts with a short estimate: call (866) 435-6328 or text us, tell us the number of stories and send a photo of the house front, and we confirm the quote in writing. Nobody needs to be home for exterior work, but we do ask that you let us know about any gate that needs to stay open. The lead time on our calendar is listed in the booking form, and the two busy windows of the year are the spring and fall visits, when the pollen and the leaves arrive together and our schedule fills first.
We clean residential properties across the Algonquin area, and our crew has done the work on single-family homes, townhomes and the older houses where the gutters have not been opened in years. Our residential and commercial work follows the same method, with a schedule set per building, and that includes the condos and multi-story buildings where the runoff from a flat roof tends to be the problem. Our crew can also handle the washing services and window cleaning services a building needs, with a photo report sent before we leave. We call before we come, and we remove dirt and grime from the gutters and downspouts the same way on every job.
Yes, and it is the same crew. Gutters are cleared first, then the glass, so the work happens in one visit.
The number comes from the stories and the size of the house, and we give it to you by phone or text. We do not quote it from a general rate.
Usually the outside is where the pollen, rain dust and sprinkler spots collect, so the glass looks cloudy from inside even when the inside is clean. No amount of cleaning solutions will lift a mineral film from a sprinkler line, which is a separate treatment.
Across Illinois, the spring visit usually falls in late May to June and the fall visit in late October to November, after the leaves drop. Two regular cleanings a year cover both of those visits.
No. We clean gutters first and glass last, so nothing runs down onto a pane we have already finished.
Screens are rinsed and sills are wiped as part of the job. Tracks are included when they are reachable from outside.
On this visit we clean the exterior only. Interior glass and pressure washing are not part of this visit.
You do not need to be home. Turn the sprinklers off the night before, move cars off the driveway, and keep pets inside while the ladders are up.
Stories, rough window count, a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
