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 the number of stories, and both jobs done together cost less than two separate trips. On our Bloomingdale jobs, most of our customers book this in the spring and in the fall, when the pollen and the leaves have come down. We do the work ourselves with our own crew, and the number we give you on the phone is the number on the invoice.
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 window and gutter cleaning bundle done in one visit costs less than booking the gutters and the windows separately. The number we give on the phone is the number we charge, and it comes from the stories and the window count you give us, with a photo of the front of the house sent by text if you have one. Our cleaning solutions are purified water, so our washing services leave no soap residue to rinse. Quoting works the same way for residential and commercial buildings and for condos, from the stories and the window count.
What moves the quote is what our crew finds on the day. A third story or a steep roof takes longer to reach safely. Oversized panes and picture windows take more time per pane than standard sizes. Gutters that have not been cleaned in years, or that are packed with needles and leaves, take longer than a light run. Gutter guards have to be lifted and reseated before the run can be cleared, and hard-water spotting from sprinkler lines on the glass is not something cleaning removes. Downspout flushing, screen rinsing and sill wiping are part of the job and are not billed as extras. This quote covers the exterior only, so interior and exterior glass are never mixed into one price here. Gutter cleanings and window cleanings go on one invoice, and regular cleanings on the same two dates each year let us quote the next visit from the last one.
On a recent Bloomingdale job, the quote came out higher than the customer expected, because the house had three stories on the street side, the gutters were packed with grit from a dry summer, and two of the upstairs panes were oversized. Once we walked the house with them, the number matched what they had been quoted. Send us the stories, the window count and a photo of the front of your house, and we will give you the exact number before anyone books a date.
| 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.
On our Bloomingdale jobs, most of our customers book both twice a year, once in spring and once in the fall. Across Illinois the spring visit falls in late May to June, and in Bloomingdale the fall visit runs from October to early November, which is why one crew and one visit makes sense for the two jobs. Most cleaning services treat the gutters and the glass as two bookings, but here they are one visit. Plenty of window cleaners skip the gutters entirely. At each spring visit we find the pollen film on the south-facing glass and the debris packed in the gutter elbows. At the fall visit we find the wet leaf mat in the runs and the grit that the storms have washed down. Storm and wind seasons, the summer derechos and severe thunderstorms across Illinois, can move the dates a few weeks in either direction.
Houses under heavy tree cover over the roof need a third visit, because needles and grit pack the downspouts between the usual dates, and multi-story buildings with a third floor take longer to reach safely. Gutters and downspouts are the first thing we check at the fall visit, since clogged gutters are where water damage starts: when they overflow they run onto the fascia and the foundation. Professional window cleaning on a house this size is done from the pole, not the ladder. A sprinkler line that hits the glass causes the round spots that come back a day after cleaning, and those need a mineral treatment rather than another wash. A house close to a busy road or to construction picks up more film between visits, and it tends to need the spring and fall dates plus one more.
Windows tell you when they need it: a haze and grime that only shows when the sun is low in the afternoon. Gutters tell you when they need it: water sheeting over the edge in a rain instead of running down the downspout, and runoff pooling at the foundation. Windows inside the house are not part of the visit, so the haze you notice from the inside usually starts on the outside glass. Clean glass and clear gutters do a lot for curb appeal, especially after the spring visit.
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 crew cleans the exterior of residential properties across Bloomingdale and the surrounding area. Our window cleaning services and our gutter work are the same job on every house, and the window and gutter cleaning is booked as one visit. To schedule service, call (866) 435-6328 or text us the number of stories and a photo of the house front, and we will give you a quote and a date. Typical lead time depends on the season, and during the two busy windows of the year, when the leaves are down and the gutters need it most, our calendar fills, so booking early in those months gets you the day you want. Nobody needs to be home for exterior work, and the crew calls before it comes. Every residential window on the outside of the house gets done from the ground or the pole, including the sill and the frame, and every window on an upper floor is done from the pole. The screens come down and back up with the job, the sill is wiped to remove dirt, and once it is done you get clean windows on every side we can reach.
The same crew does both. Our two people clean the gutters first and then the outside of the windows in one visit, so you pay for one trip instead of two.
We give the number from your stories and the size of the house. Send us the stories and a photo of the front of the house by text or call (866) 435-6328, and we will tell you the number before anything is booked.
For most Bloomingdale homes, window cleaning services on the outside are worth it, because the outside of the glass carries the spring film, the rain dust and the sprinkler spots that the inside never sees. We see the haze on the outside long before anyone is bothered by the inside.
Our Bloomingdale customers mostly book in late spring and in the fall. Across Illinois, spring and fall are the two windows when the leaves are down and the gutters need it most. Condos are quoted the same way, by window count and stories.
Gutters first, glass last. When we clear the gutters and downspouts, the grit and the black water come down the wall, so the glass is washed after the gutters are cleared and the downspouts are flushed.
Screens, sills and frames are part of the job. Screens get rinsed and put back in, and sills get wiped as we go to remove dirt. Tracks that are packed with grime and runoff from the frame are included in the window count.
We clean the outside only on this visit. We do not clean inside the windows and we do not do pressure washing, so those are not part of this booking. Text a photo of the roofline if you want us to look at something else on the house.
No, you do not need to be home. Turn the sprinklers off the night before, move the cars off the driveway if the 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.
