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 doing both in one visit costs less than booking two separate trips. Across Illinois, most of our customers book this in the spring and fall, and that is the calendar we work to. Tell us the stories and a rough window count, and we give you the number we will charge.
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.
The number we quote over the phone or by text is the number we charge. We build it from the stories, the approximate window count and what is in the gutters, and the bundle costs less than two separate visits. Our crew sees the same things drive a quote again and again: a third story or a roof too steep to walk, oversized picture windows that take more time per pane, gutters that have not been opened in years and are packed with needles, leaves and grime, gutter guards that have to be lifted and reseated, and hard-water spotting from sprinklers that no cleaning removes. Downspout flushing, screen rinsing and sill wiping are part of the job and are not billed as extras.
When you call, tell us whether you want the exterior only. We clean the outside of the glass on this visit, and we do not take interior and exterior glass on one ticket. Window cleaning services inside the house are not part of this job, and neither is pressure washing or other window washing services. Those are separate jobs and we say so before we quote, so nothing shows up on the invoice that you did not agree to.
Here is how we get to the number on the day. Most homes come down to the stories and how much glass faces the street, and a rough photo of the front of the house sent by text usually settles the window count in one message. If you have a regular cleanings schedule in mind, mention it, because it changes what the crew checks on each visit. A customer who books the bundle every spring and fall gets the same crew and the same order of work each time, which is why the second visit is usually quicker than the first. We will not give you a number that changes once the ladders are up. If something we did not expect shows up, the crew photographs it and we call you before any extra work starts.
Call (866) 435-6328 for the number, or text a photo of the front of the house and we will reply with a price from the stories and window count. Ask for a written estimate if you want it on paper before you book a 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.
Across Illinois, most of our customers have both the gutters and the outside of the windows done twice a year, in late spring and again in fall, so one crew can do the window and gutter work in one visit. On our jobs the spring visit lands late May to June, after the seed and pollen drop has finished, and the fall visit lands late October to November, after the last leaves are down and before the hard freeze. Those are the windows we book around, for residential and commercial jobs alike.
What we find at each visit follows the season. In late spring the downspout elbows are packed with seeds and pollen, and a yellow film sits on every south-facing pane, so the glass looks dull until it is rinsed. The sticky residue also builds up in the gutters and sits there until someone clears it. In the fall it is the wet leaf mat that matters. A mat that stays through the winter is how a run sags under ice, and on houses that skipped the fall visit we see sagging hangers and water damage by spring. Storm and wind seasons, the summer derechos and severe thunderstorms, can move the dates for a house that took a branch or a load of debris, so we check after those too.
Some houses need a third visit, and we tell you that after the first one. Heavy tree cover over the roof is the usual reason, because needles and grit pack the downspouts and clogged gutters between visits. A sprinkler line that hits the glass is another, since the mineral spots it leaves come back a day after cleaning and need a separate treatment, not ordinary cleaning solutions. Multi-story buildings and a house close to a busy road or a construction site also collect more on the glass, and those customers tend to book a third visit in the middle of the summer. Each of those is a judgment we make from what the house shows us, not a rule we apply to every address.
You will know the windows need attention when you see a haze that only shows up when the sun is low and hits the glass at an angle. You will know the gutters need attention when water sheets over the edge in a hard rain instead of running into the downspout. If you see either, text us a photo and we tell you whether it is a cleaning or a slope problem.
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 exterior glass and gutters across Norwood Park, and we work through the whole city as one route, so a booking in one part of town does not wait on a crew coming from another. Booking for professional window cleaning works the same way across the city. To schedule service, call (866) 435-6328 or text the number of stories and a photo of the front of the house, and we give you the price and set a date. The lead time changes with the season, so we tell you the first open date when you call rather than promising a day that may not be open. In the two busy windows, late spring and fall, our calendar fills faster, and the customers who book early get the dates they want.
Nobody needs to be home for the exterior work. The crew works outside, cleans every window and wipes its sill, does not come inside, and calls before it arrives so you know when to expect the truck. If the weather turns, we reschedule and tell you the new day in the same call. For an office or a building with several entrances, we set one contact for the site so the crew checks in with one person.
Our window cleaners work the same way on every site, and the residential work is what most of the schedule is built around, since clean gutters and glass do a lot for curb appeal. We also do residential gutter cleaning for homeowners, and the same crew handles that if a house needs the gutters alone. Ask us what the calendar looks like for your address and we will tell you straight.
Yes, the same two people do window and gutter cleaning in one visit. We clean the gutters and downspouts first and the glass last, so nothing dirty from the gutters lands on clean windows. Our crew handles the whole job, not a second company.
The number comes from the stories and the window count on residential properties like yours, and we give it to you by phone or text. Send a photo of the front of the house and we reply with the price. The number we quote is the number we charge.
Yes, because the outside of each residential window carries the dust, the rain residue and the sprinkler spots. The inside can be clean while the outside still looks hazy in low sun, and that is the part we clean on this visit.
Our customers here, from single-family homes to condos, book in late spring, after the spring drop, and again in late fall, after the leaves are down. Those are the windows our calendar fills, so book early if you want those dates.
No, because we clean the gutters first and the glass last. The leaves, the grit and the runoff run down the wall and across the windows below, so the glass waits until the gutters are done and every downspout is flushed.
Screens are rinsed to remove dirt and sills are wiped as part of the job, and we do not bill them as extras. Tracks are included on the exterior side, and anything beyond that we say so before the crew starts.
We do exterior glass only on this visit. We do not clean windows inside the house and we do not do pressure washing, so if you need either one we tell you that up front.
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 unlock the side gate.
Stories, rough window count, a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
