We are the crew that cleans the gutters and the outside of the windows in one visit, gutters first and glass last. We price the job by the number of stories, and both jobs in one visit cost less than booking them as two separate trips. Across Illinois, most of our customers book the work for spring and fall, and that schedule is what keeps the glass clear through the seasons.
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 the job 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. Window washing and gutter clearing are quoted together, so the window cleaning services and the gutter work come as one number. The number we give you on the phone is the number we charge. Our quote covers the whole job, so you know the total before the crew arrives.
What moves the quote is what the crew finds on the day. A third story or a steep roof takes longer to work safely. A high count of windows or oversized picture windows adds time on the ladder and the pole. Gutters and downspouts that have not been opened in years, or packed with needles and leaves, need more passes before they run clear. Gutter guards that must be lifted and reseated add time. Hard-water spotting from sprinklers is a separate problem that cleaning alone does not remove, so we note it when we see it. Downspout flushing, screen rinsing and sill wiping are part of the job and are not billed as extras. Regular cleanings on the same schedule keep the quote steady from one visit to the next, since the stories and the glass stay the same.
In a typical day on a Jarvis house, a two-story home with a full run of gutters and about twenty windows is the kind of job our washing services quote most often, because the grime on the glass and the grit in the gutters both build up between visits. Here is what that looks like in practice: one neighborhood customer had the back run packed with seeds and the front picture windows coated in dust, and the first visit showed that both needed doing in the same trip. Each quote we give starts with the stories and the window count, and a photo of the front of the house sent by text helps us confirm the number before we book the 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.
Most of our Jarvis customers book both gutters and windows twice a year, once in spring and once in fall, which is why one crew in one visit makes sense for the schedule. In spring we find a film of pollen on the south-facing glass and a pollen paste packed into the gutters, and by fall we find a wet leaf mat that has built up through the season. Clogged gutters are the usual reason water runs over the edge after a wet spring, and left alone they can send water damage down the fascia and into the wall below.
Storm and wind seasons move the dates a little, and a heavy summer rain can push a spring cleaning later into the year. Some houses need a third visit. Heavy tree cover over the roof, a sprinkler line hitting the glass, or a house near a busy road or construction tends to bring grime and runoff back faster than the twice-a-year schedule allows. Multi-story buildings take longer on the ladder and the pole, so the crew plans the schedule around the stories first.
Our crew sees a house with few or no trees do well with one visit a year in late fall. A house under trees, or one with sprinkler spotting, is usually on three or four visits, because needles and grit pack the downspouts between cleanings. We look at your lot on the first visit and tell you which schedule it needs. Plain water does most of the work on the glass, and cleaning solutions are used only on spots that water alone does not lift.
You will see when the windows need cleaning by a haze that only shows when the sun is low. Haze like that is the sign it is time to remove dirt from the glass, before it dries on. You will see when the gutters need cleaning when water sheets over the edge in rain instead of running down the downspout.
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 schedule service by phone or text, and you can call (866) 435-6328 to book. Send us the number of stories and a photo of the front of the house, and we will give you a quote and a date. Our lead time is shown when you book, and our calendar fills in the two busy windows of the year, so booking early keeps your slot. We call before we come.
Nobody needs to be home for exterior work. Our window cleaners work from the outside, and our crew will not come inside the house. The professional window cleaning we do is done from the ground, the pole and the ladder, so every residential window gets the same care, whether it is a small sill or a large picture window. Clean glass also does more for curb appeal than most people expect.
Our cleaning services cover every window on the outside of the house, and we clean each sill as part of the same visit. The crew clears the gutters and downspouts on that same visit. Whether you have one story or three, the crew arrives with what it needs to do the whole job in one trip, and you will get the photos before we leave.
Yes. The same two-person crew clears the gutters and downspouts first, and then washes the glass last. That order keeps the gutter water from running across windows we have just washed.
We do not give a figure from the internet. The number comes from the stories and the size of the house, and we quote residential properties by phone or text. For a residential and commercial address, call first and we will say whether it fits the job before we quote. Call (866) 435-6328 or send a photo of the front of the house.
Yes, because the outside carries the pollen, the rain dust and the sprinkler spots that never reach the inside glass. The outside is where most of the dirt that you see from the street sits, and that is the curb appeal people notice first.
Across Illinois our customers book in spring and fall. In Jarvis, most customers book in late spring and late fall, and condos are booked on the same schedule as houses. We confirm the month when you call.
No, because we clear the gutters and flush the downspouts before we touch the glass. The black water and grit run down the wall first, so the glass is washed last and stays clean. Left clogged, those same gutters can send water damage down the siding, which is one more reason to clear them first.
Screens are rinsed and sills are wiped as part of the job. Tracks are included in the visit, cleaned to remove dirt from the channel, and they are not billed as an extra.
On this visit we clean the exterior glass only, so the quote does not cover interior and exterior glass together. We do not clean windows inside, and we do not do pressure washing on this visit.
No, you do not need to be home. Turn off the sprinklers the night before, move cars off the driveway if windows face it, keep pets inside while the ladders are up, and leave the side gate unlocked.
Stories, rough window count, a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
