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 the approximate window count, and doing both in one visit costs less than booking two separate trips. Across Illinois, most of our customers book this in spring and fall, once the seeds and leaves have come down. Call (866) 435-6328 for your number before we book.
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 done 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. Tell us your stories and window count, and we confirm the exact figure before we book the crew. Say on the call if the property mixes residential and commercial space, so we quote the right visit.
What moves the quote is what the crew finds on the day. A third story or a steep roof means a boom or scissor lift and more time on the ladder. Window count and oversized panes, picture windows included, change the time on the glass. Gutters not cleaned in years, 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 not removed by cleaning and is a separate job we quote after we see it. Cleaning solutions for the glass are part of the price, and so are the downspout flushing, screen rinsing and sill wiping, none of which is billed as an extra.
Across our Franklin Park work, the number that surprises people most is how much time a packed gutter takes compared with a light one. A house that looks similar from the street can be an hour apart once we are on the ladder. A photo of the front of the house, sent by text, plus your stories and window count, is enough for us to give you the exact number before the visit. Each cleaning is priced the same way, and regular cleanings on the same schedule keep each visit to the same job. We price exterior work only, so if you want interior and exterior glass done, tell us on the call and we quote it separately. Nothing here is a guess, and nothing changes on the day without a call first.
| 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 Franklin Park customers book professional window cleaning and gutter work twice a year, in the late spring month and the late fall month we give you, which is why one crew in one visit makes sense for the calendar. What we find at each visit follows the seasons: the pollen film on south-facing glass and the pollen paste in the gutters in the spring, and the wet leaf load in the fall. Wind and storm seasons move the dates, so we call before we come.
Some houses need a third visit. We see that most often under heavy tree cover over the roof, where needles and grit leave clogged gutters between visits, and where a sprinkler line hits the glass and leaves spots that return a day after cleaning. A house near a busy road or a construction site also gets dirtier faster, and multi-story buildings need a lift or ladder for the upper glass, which we plan in advance. Those are the cases where we suggest a third visit after the first season, so you can see the pattern on your own house.
On our Franklin Park jobs we see the same two things every season. Haze on the glass shows up when the sun is low and the film catches the light, and that is the sign the windows need a visit. The windows inside the house are not part of an exterior visit, so if they need attention, tell us on the call. Water sheeting over the edge of a gutter during rain is the sign the gutters need one, since that water is the usual route to water damage on the siding and fascia. Either sign means it is time to book. Clean glass and clear gutters also do a lot for curb appeal, which is a fair reason to book the visit on its own. Cleaning services done on this schedule keep the gutters and glass from building into a bigger job.
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 do window and gutter cleaning across Franklin Park, and the crew handles the same jobs for residential properties across the city. Booking starts with a phone call or a text with your stories and a photo of the house front. We give you the estimate from that, then we set a date. The typical lead time is shown with the booking calendar, and when our calendar fills in the two busy windows of the year, the lead time gets longer, so book early.
We call before we come, every time. Nobody needs to be home for exterior work, because the crew works outside and does not come inside. To clean windows well, we need the outside of every window reachable, and we tell you on the call if any pane is out of reach. That way there are no surprises on the day. Each visit ends with a clear view of the work, so you can see the result on every window and on the gutters and downspouts together.
To schedule service, text a photo of the house front or call (866) 435-6328, and we will confirm the date and the window of arrival. The crew arrives in the window we give you and sends photos of the finished work before it leaves.
Yes. Our crew does both in one visit, gutters first and glass last. Our washing services cover the roof blow-off, the gutter clearing and the exterior windows, all handled by the same two people, so you deal with one company and one bill.
We do not give a figure in writing without the details. The number comes from your stories and approximate window count, and we give it to you by phone or text before we book, covering the window cleaning services and the gutter work together. The number we quote is the number on the invoice.
Yes, if the outside is what is dirty. Here the outside carries pollen, rain dust, sprinkler spots and the grime that runoff leaves on the frames, and those build up between visits whatever the inside looks like. Exterior cleaning is what we do on this visit.
Most of our Franklin Park customers book in the late spring month and the late fall month, which are the two windows we give you on the calendar. Across Illinois, spring and fall are the times we see the most seed, pollen and leaf load.
Not on our jobs. We do the gutters first, so the leaves, grit and black water come down before the glass is touched, and we flush every downspout before we move to the windows. The glass is the last thing we clean, and we remove dirt from the frames after it, so nothing sits on clean panes.
Screens are rinsed and sills are wiped as part of the job, and we do not bill them as extras. Tracks are included in the visit as well, so you do not see a separate line for them.
No, not on this visit. We clean the exterior glass only, and we do not do interior glass or pressure washing on this visit. If you need those, tell us when you book so we can plan the visit.
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. If the home is a condo, tell us on the call, because outside access is different.
Stories, rough window count, a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
