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 in one visit costs less than booking two separate trips. On our Ottawa jobs, most of our customers book it in the spring and fall, which is when the pollen and leaves build up on the house. Our crew does the work from start to finish, and the number we quote on the phone is the number on the invoice.
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 gutter and window cleaning by the number of stories and the approximate window count. Doing both in one visit costs less than booking the two jobs separately, and the number we give you on the phone is the number we charge.
What moves the quote is what our crew finds on the day. A third story or a steep roof takes longer to reach safely. A high count of windows, or large picture windows that need a boom or scissor lift to reach, adds time. A house with years of grime on the glass takes longer than one that is cleaned every season. Gutters that have not been cleaned in years, or packed with needles and leaves, take more hands and more haul-off. Gutter guards that must be lifted and reseated are part of the time. Hard-water spotting from sprinklers is something no cleaning removes, and we will tell you when we see it. Downspout flushing, screen rinsing and sill wiping are part of the job and are not billed as extras.
Our crew does not work from a price list, and we do not quote the same house the same way twice without a reason. Before we give a number, we want the stories, a rough count of the windows, and a photo of the front of the house sent by text. With those three things we can tell you the cost for your own home, and the number holds once the crew arrives. A residential and commercial job each get the same plain estimate, and the cleanings we do on a regular schedule are priced once and kept that way until the house changes. The quote covers the labor, the cleaning solutions and the professional window cleaning on the visit. Interior glass is not part of this price, so interior and exterior work is a separate quote if you want both. Call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the front of your house to book a date and get a written estimate.
| 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 Ottawa customers book gutter and window cleaning twice a year, once in the spring and once in the fall, which is why one crew in one visit makes sense. Our crew sees the same things on every visit: a pollen film on south-facing glass and pollen paste packed in the gutters in the spring, and a wet leaf mat in the fall that holds water against the fascia. Window cleaners who also do the gutters on the same visit save you a second trip, and that is how our crew works.
Some houses need a third visit. Heavy tree cover over the roof means needles and grit pack the downspouts between cleanings. A sprinkler line that hits the glass leaves spots that come back a day after cleaning. A house near a busy road or construction picks up a fine dust that shows on the windows within weeks. In those cases our customers are on a schedule closer to three or four visits a year, because the house is working against the glass and the gutters all season. Multi-story buildings and tall houses take longer on the ladder, so the visit runs longer too.
A customer with no trees near the house and no sprinkler on the glass is usually fine with one visit in late fall. A customer whose gutters are under heavy trees is the one who needs the extra visits, because clogged gutters and water damage show up first on the fascia and the lower wall. Regular cleanings keep the gutters ahead of the runoff from a wet season, which is much easier than clearing a backed-up run. Each visit is also the chance to remove dirt that has settled on the frames and sills. We keep a record of what we find on each visit, so the schedule that fits your house gets clearer after the first cleaning.
Windows tell you they need cleaning when there is a haze you only notice when the sun is low, or when the glass looks dull from the inside in the morning. Grime that has built up on the outside all season is what makes that haze. Gutters tell you they need cleaning when water sheets over the edge in the rain instead of running down the downspout. Our crew clears the gutters and downspouts before the glass on every visit, so the water from above never lands on clean panes. Clean glass and clear gutters also do more for curb appeal than most people expect. If you see either, text us a photo and we will tell you which one it is.
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 Ottawa and the surrounding houses that we can reach for a single visit, and we handle window and gutter cleaning on residential properties of most sizes. We clean each residential window and each gutter run in one pass. Booking is simple. Call (866) 435-6328 or text us the number of stories and a photo of the house front, and we return a written estimate. The lead time on a slot is listed on your estimate, and the two busy windows of the year, the spring pollen season and the fall leaf drop, are when our calendar fills first. Book early in those months if you want a specific day.
Every window on the house gets the same exterior cleaning, and every sill and frame is wiped as part of the visit. Condos are welcome too, as long as the exterior glass can be reached safely from the ground or a ladder. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for exterior work. Our crew does not come inside the house. If you want to schedule service for a house you are moving out of or into, tell us the date when you call and we will plan around it. Clean windows and clear gutters are the whole point, and we keep both on the same visit so the house is done in one pass.
Yes. Our crew does both, and the same two people do the gutters and the windows in one visit. Gutters go first and the glass goes last, so the grime from the gutters does not end up on clean glass.
The number comes from the stories and the size of the house. Text us the number of stories and a photo of the front, and we will give you the figure for your own house.
On our Ottawa jobs, the outside carries most of the grime: pollen, rain dust and sprinkler spots that wash in from the ground. Windows inside the house can look clean while the outside is hazy, so cleaning the outside is usually what makes a visible difference.
Across Illinois, the spring window runs from late May to June, after the pollen drop, and the fall window runs from late October to November, after the leaves come down. Those are the months when our calendar fills first.
No, because we clean the gutters first and the glass last. If the glass were washed first, the runoff from the gutters would run down the wall and across it, so the glass would have to be done again. We also remove dirt from the gutter run and flush the gutters and downspouts before the crew touches any glass.
Screens, sills and frames are part of our washing services, done in the same pass with no separate charge. Tracks are included in that pass as well, so there is no extra line on the invoice for them.
We do exterior glass only on this visit, including on condos, so interior and exterior cleaning are separate jobs. We do not clean the inside of the windows and we do not do pressure washing.
No, 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.
Stories, rough window count, a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
