Yes, the same two people clean your gutters and the outside of your windows in one visit. We do the gutters first and the glass last, so nothing that falls off the roof lands on clean panes. We price it by the number of stories and the approximate window count, and doing both jobs together costs less than booking two separate trips. On our Herrin jobs, most of our customers book it for the spring and fall, when leaves and grime build up the fastest. Tell us your stories and window count and we will give you the number on the phone.
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 the number we give you on the phone is the number on the invoice. Doing the gutters and the exterior glass in one visit comes in below booking two separate jobs, because the same setup and the same drive serve both. The same questions decide the quote for residential and commercial callers alike. Downspout flushing, screen rinsing and sill wiping are part of the job and are not billed as extras, and we use purified water in place of cleaning solutions on the glass.
On the day, the things that move a quote are consistent. A third story or a roof too steep to walk takes longer on a ladder. Window count and oversized picture windows change the glass portion, and a residential window with a stuck sash takes longer to reach. Gutters nobody has opened in years, or clogged gutters packed with seeds and leaves, need more time at the top of each run. Gutter guards have to be lifted and reseated before we can clear the trough, and hard-water spotting from sprinklers needs a separate treatment that no cleaning removes. The quote for interior and exterior glass is separate, and this visit covers the exterior only. We will tell you about any of these before we start, including any sign of water damage to the fascia.
On our Herrin jobs, one customer with a two-story house and a long back run had the gutters packed with grit from a nearby lot, and the back windows carried a film of pollen that rinsed off only after a second pass. Their quote moved because of the back run and the window count, not the front of the house. Send us a photo of the front of your house by text, along with your stories and a rough count of windows, and we can give you the number before anyone climbs a ladder. Across Illinois the same questions decide the number, so the photo is the fastest way to get an exact figure.
| 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 Herrin customers book both jobs twice a year, once in late spring after the bloom is over and once in the fall after the leaves come down, which is why one crew in one visit makes sense for them. On the glass in April we find a yellow pollen film on the south-facing panes, and inside the gutters and downspouts the film turns to paste that cleaning services sometimes miss if the run is not opened. In the fall the leaf load is the main problem, and wet leaves packed into the elbows hold water against the fascia until the first hard rain, which is how water damage starts. Storm and wind seasons can shift the dates, so we call before we come.
Some homes need a third visit, and we tell you early when we see the signs. Heavy tree cover over the roof means needles and grit pack the downspouts and leave clogged gutters between visits, and multi-story buildings with the same problem need more ladder time, which is where many of our customers end up on a schedule closer to every three or four months. Regular cleanings catch that buildup before it hardens. A sprinkler line that hits the glass leaves round white spots that come back a day after cleaning. A house close to a busy road or active construction picks up a fine dust that settles on the sills, and runoff carries it down the wall. These are the cases where window cleaners and our crew see the same problem, and where professional window cleaning on a regular schedule pays off.
One of our Herrin customers has no trees near the house and books once a year, in the fall, and that is enough for their gutters and glass. Another, with mature trees over the back roof and a sprinkler spotting the front windows, is on three or four visits a year. You will know your window is due when the grime shows up only when the sun is low, and you will know your gutters need attention when water sheets over the edge in a rain. Either sign is reason to call. A rain alone does not remove dirt from the frames, so the frames get done on every 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.
We clean the gutters and the exterior glass on residential properties across Herrin, from older homes with single-pane sashes to newer houses with large insulated panes. Keeping clean windows and clear gutters does a lot for curb appeal, and both show from the street. Each visit covers every window on the outside of the house, including the upper stories, and we wipe each sill as we go. To schedule service, call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the front of the house with your stories and a rough window count. We will reply with a written estimate and a date.
Booking is simple. We take the estimate by phone or text, confirm the window count and stories, and set a date. Lead time is set by our calendar, and the lead time field for Herrin is the number we give you when you call. The two busy windows are late spring and late fall, when the gutters and glass need the most work, so booking early in those months helps. Nobody needs to be home for exterior work, and we call before we come.
Yes. The same two people do both jobs in one visit, and our washing services for gutters and windows are one job, not two. We do the gutters first and the glass last, which keeps the grit from the roof off the windows we just washed.
The number depends on stories and window count, so we give it by phone or text. For condos, the quote follows the same stories and window count. Call (866) 435-6328 with the stories, a rough count of windows and a photo of the front of the house, and we will quote the bundle.
Often yes, because the outside takes the seasonal film, rain dust and sprinkler spotting in Herrin. Interior glass is not part of this visit, so the outside is what you see first from the street.
Most of our customers here book in late spring, after the pollen drops, and in late fall, after the leaves come down. Those are the two windows when our calendar fills.
No. The crew clears the gutters and downspouts first, and the runoff and grime from the roof are gone before anyone touches the panes.
Screens are rinsed and sills are wiped as part of the visit, which is how we remove dirt from the frames, and tracks are included on the exterior side. We do not bill them as add-ons.
Exterior only on this visit. We do not clean the windows inside the house, and pressure washing is not part of it, so the outside of the house is the job.
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.
Stories, rough window count, a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
