Yes, the same two people clean your gutters and the outside of your windows in one visit, gutters first and glass last. We price the job by the number of stories and the approximate window count, and doing both together in one visit costs less than booking two separate trips. Our crew does this work across Illinois every spring and fall, so you get the same order of work and the same crew on the ladder from the first run to the last pane. Call (866) 435-6328 to 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 when both jobs are booked together in one visit the bundle costs less than two separate trips. The number we give on the phone is the number we charge on the invoice. Downspout flushing, screen rinsing and sill wiping are part of the job and are not billed as extras.
What moves the quote is what the crew finds on the day. A third story or a steep roof means more time on the ladder or a boom or scissor lift. A high window count, or oversized picture windows, means more glass to clean at the pole. Gutters that have not been cleared in years, or packed with needles and leaves, take longer to hand-clear and flush. Gutter guards that must be lifted and reseated add time. Hard-water spotting from sprinklers is a separate treatment that no cleaning removes, and we flag it on the visit rather than guessing at it.
Here is how we get the exact number. Text us the front of the house with a count of the stories and a rough count of the windows, and we give you a figure from those details. Multi-story buildings follow the same route, with the building priced on its own footprint and roof rather than by a house count. Our residential and commercial work follows the same method, so the quote you get is one you can check against what we actually do. Cleanings are scheduled around the season, which we cover in the next section, so the number you get now is the number for the visit you book. Our crew cleans the exterior glass only on this visit, so the job never reaches the windows inside the house, and that is a separate arrangement. Picture windows and multi-story glass are priced individually. For regular cleanings, we set the interval once we have seen the house, and the price for each visit stays the same until the scope changes. Pollen and cleaning solutions are part of the normal visit, and we tell you when a cleaning solution has to change because of what the glass is carrying.
| 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.
Across Illinois, most homeowners book both jobs twice a year, once in spring and once in fall, which is why one crew doing both in one visit makes sense. Across Illinois the spring visit falls in late May to June, and on our McHenry jobs the fall visit is October to early November. The fall visit comes after the last leaves drop and before the first hard freeze, so the gutters are clear before the wet leaf mat and any ice forms in them.
What we find at each visit follows the calendar. In late spring we see the pollen film on south-facing glass and pollen paste packed in the gutter elbows. In fall it is the wet leaf load, and on houses that skipped that visit we find runs that sagged under the weight of ice. Storm and wind seasons, mostly summer derechos and severe thunderstorms across the state, can move the dates when a run gets clogged faster than normal. Houses under heavy tree cover need professional window cleaning more often, because needles and grit pack the downspouts between visits. A house near a busy road or a construction site carries more grime on its glass and more runoff in its gutters, so it lands on a shorter schedule too.
Some homes need a third visit. A house with big trees over the roof is usually on every three to four months, because the debris keeps arriving all season. A sprinkler line that hits the glass leaves spots that come back a day after cleaning, and those need the mineral treatment instead of another wash. We set the interval after the first visit, based on what we actually found in the gutters and on the glass. Clean glass and clear gutters keep the curb appeal up through the season, and they are the first things anyone notices from the street.
You will know the windows need it when you see a haze that only shows when the sun is low. You will know the gutters need it when water sheets over the edge in a rain instead of running into the downspout. That is the point where clogged gutters start pushing water behind the fascia and into the wall, which is how water damage gets started, and that is when we want to see the house.
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 works across McHenry, and on residential properties the gutters and the glass both need attention in the same season. Booking starts with a quote by phone or text: send the number of stories and a photo of the house front, and we give you the approximate window count and the price from those. Lead time depends on the calendar, and we give you the earliest date when you call. Nobody needs to be home for exterior work, and we call before we come. The two busy windows of the year, late spring and fall, fill the calendar first, so the sooner you book the sooner you get the date you want. Our window and gutter cleaning runs on the same route for every house, and every window gets the same attention whether it is a small kitchen pane or a large residential window. We clean the sill and the frame with the glass, so the clean windows you get are clean all the way to the edge. Schedule service by calling (866) 435-6328 or by text, and we confirm the date in writing before the crew is on the road.
Yes, it is the same two people, and they handle condos as well as houses. We clean the gutters first, then the glass, so the window cleaning services and the gutter work happen in one visit. Gutters first, glass last keeps the gutter runoff off the clean glass.
We do not give a figure here because the number comes from the stories and the window count. Text us the front of the house with those two details, and we send the price for your house by text before anything is booked.
On a McHenry house the outside carries most of the grime: pollen in spring, rain dust, and sprinkler spots. Rain alone does not remove dirt from the glass, so the outside is where the buildup is, and the inside stays clean longer because nothing reaches it outdoors.
On our McHenry jobs, most customers book in late May or June and again in October or early November. We schedule around those months, and the fall visit is the one that clears the gutters before the freeze.
No, because gutters come first and glass last. When a run is cleared, the gutters and downspouts are flushed and the debris and black water run down the wall, so the glass is washed only after the downspouts are flushed and the wall has stopped dripping.
Screens are rinsed and sills are wiped as part of the visit, and our window washing services cover the frames too. Tracks are included in the same pass, and we do not bill them as add-ons on this visit.
We clean the exterior glass only on this visit. We do not clean inside the windows or do pressure washing, so the job covers the outside of the house and the gutters.
You do not need to be home. Turn the sprinklers off the night before, move cars off the driveway, keep pets inside while the ladders are up, and leave the side gate unlocked. The crew sends photos of every run and downspout before the truck leaves.
Stories, rough window count, a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
