The same two people clean the gutters and the outside of your windows in one visit here, and we do the gutters first and the glass last. We price it by the number of stories, and doing both jobs together costs less than booking two separate trips. Across Illinois, our customers book this in the spring and fall, when the pollen and leaves are heaviest on the 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 window and gutter cleaning by the number of stories and the approximate window count, and doing both 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, and we will not add a charge for work we did not describe first. We rinse the glass with purified water rather than cleaning solutions, so nothing is left behind to streak. Call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the front of the house, and we will give you a written estimate from those two details.
What moves the quote is what the crew finds on the ladder. A third story or a roof too steep to walk takes longer, and multi-story buildings need more time on the ladder and the pole. Oversized picture windows and tall panes take more care on the glass. Pollen that has built up on the frames is rinsed in the same pass as the rest of the glass. Gutters that have not been opened in years, packed with needles and leaves, need more time to clear. Gutter guards that have to be lifted and reseated add time, and hard-water spotting from a sprinkler line hitting the glass is something no 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, because interior and exterior work are quoted separately.
On a Deerfield job, the quote usually changes most when the house has a lot of glass and heavy tree cover at once, because the gutters need clearing often and the glass picks up dust between visits. Regular cleanings on the same house usually take about the same time each visit, so the next quote is quicker to give. The same stories-and-windows method is used for residential and commercial buildings, but this page is about homes. The easiest way to get the exact number is to tell us the stories, the window count, and send a photo of the front of the house by text. We will look at it, confirm the number, and book a date when you are ready.
| 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.
Most of our Deerfield customers book cleaning services twice a year, once in the spring and once in the fall, which is why one crew in one visit makes sense. On a typical spring visit we find a film of pollen on the south-facing glass and a paste of seeds and grit in the gutter elbows. Our fall visit is about the wet leaf mat that packs the gutters and the grime left on the glass after the summer storms.
Heavy tree cover over the roof changes the schedule. On those houses, the gutters pack with needles and grit between visits, and clogged gutters are the usual route to water damage at the eaves, so we see customers every three to four months. Window cleaners who skip the gutters leave the water to run back onto the glass. In May, June and August, the wettest months in Deerfield, the runoff from the roof carries grit down the wall onto the lower panes. A house near a busy road or a construction site collects more dust on the frames, and it may need a third visit. A multi-story building needs the pole and the ladder for the upper glass, so it takes more setup. A sprinkler line hitting the glass produces the spots that come back a day after cleaning, so those houses also need a closer look.
You will know windows need it when you see a haze that only shows when the sun is low, and gutters need it when clogged gutters let water sheet over the edge in a heavy rain instead of running down the downspout. Those are the two signs we ask about on the phone. Clean glass helps curb appeal, and windows inside are a separate job, so this visit covers the outside. Call (866) 435-6328 and tell us what you are seeing, and we will say whether it needs a professional window cleaning visit or a slope fix.
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 our window and gutter cleaning in Deerfield the same way on every house: an estimate by phone or text with the number of stories and a photo of the house front, then a date on the calendar. Lead time is set by our calendar that week, and we will tell you the first open slot when you call. The two busy windows of the year are the spring bloom period and the fall leaf drop, and in those weeks our calendar fills faster than usual, so booking early helps. Clean glass and clear gutters do a lot for curb appeal on a house that faces the street.
We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for exterior work. The crew does not come inside, so there is nothing to clear out of the way on the inside. We work from the ladder and the pole, check every window from the outside, wipe each sill as we go, and send photos of every run to your phone before we leave. For a residential window or a multi-story house, the crew measures the windows at the estimate so the quote matches the job.
Clean windows and clear gutters go together on residential properties across the area, and we will schedule service around the weather and your calendar. This page covers homes only, so for residential and commercial buildings, call us first and we will say whether the crew can take the job. To book, text a photo of the front of your house or call (866) 435-6328 and we will set a date.
Yes. Our crew does both in one visit, and it is the same two people on the ladder. We clear the gutters and downspouts first and clean the glass last, so the water and debris from the gutters do not land on clean windows.
The number comes from the stories and the size of the house, and we give it by phone or text. Our washing services are quoted in writing before anything is booked, so send us the stories and a photo of the front of the house.
Usually yes, because the outside carries the rain runoff, the dust and the sprinkler spots that build up between visits. Windows inside are a separate job that we do not do on this visit, so the outside is what we clean.
Our customers here book professional window cleaning in the spring and in the fall, which is when the leaves and tree debris are heaviest. Book early in those weeks, since our calendar fills faster then.
No, because we do the gutters first and the glass last. Our crew clears clogged gutters and flushes every downspout, then gives the wall a few minutes to stop dripping before anyone touches the windows.
Screens are rinsed and sills are wiped as part of the job, and we do not bill them as extras. Frames are wiped to remove dirt before the glass is rinsed, and any grime on the sills comes off with the same wipe. Tracks are included when they are reachable from the outside.
We clean the outside of the glass only on this visit. Interior windows are not part of the visit, and we do not do pressure washing. If you live in one of the condos on your street, text us a photo of your own windows and the stories in your building.
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, keep pets inside while the ladders are up, and unlock the side gate.
Stories, rough window count, a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
