Yes, the same two people clean your gutters and the outside of your windows in one visit. We do the gutters and downspouts first and the glass last, so the runoff from the roof never lands on clean panes. We price the job by the number of stories and the approximate window count, and booking both together in one visit costs less than two separate trips.
Across Illinois, our crews have provided window cleaning services to homeowners every spring and fall, and the visit is quick when the house is ready. Call (866) 435-6328 with the stories and a rough window count, and we will 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.
We price 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. The figures here apply to houses only, and residential and commercial buildings are quoted separately. The number we give on the phone is the number we charge.
What moves the quote is what the crew finds on the day. A third story, or a multi-story building with a steep roof, takes longer to reach safely. Picture windows and other oversized panes, along with a high window count, add time at the glass. Clogged gutters, packed with needles and leaves after years without service, need more work at every downspout. Gutter guards that must be lifted and reseated are timed separately. Hard-water spotting from sprinklers is a different job, because plain water and cleaning solutions do not lift it, and we tell you about it before we start. Downspout flushing, screen rinsing and sill wiping are part of every one of our cleanings and are not billed as extras.
On our Park Ridge jobs, the houses that end up costing more are usually the ones we see for the first time with a full season of debris on the roof. The first visit tells us what the house needs, and the quote tells you what that costs. Send a photo of the front of the house by text and tell us how many stories it has, and we will work the number out with you before the crew is booked. Our crew handles the usual residential window and gutter cleaning across the city, and the quote covers the whole visit from the first ladder to the final photo.
| 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 book professional window cleaning and gutter work twice a year, once in the spring and once in the fall, and one crew on one visit makes that simple. The spring and fall visits follow the pollen and the leaves, not the calendar, and a clean front keeps the curb appeal up between them.
In the spring, pollen forms a film on south-facing glass and a paste in the gutters. In the fall, the leaf load is what fills the downspouts. Storm and wind seasons can move the dates a few weeks in either direction, and when a severe storm passes through we check the roofline before the next visit.
Some houses need regular cleanings more often than twice a year. Heavy tree cover over the roof means needles and grit pack the downspouts between visits, so those customers book more often. A sprinkler line that hits the glass leaves spots that come back a day after cleaning, and those houses need a closer schedule too. A house near a busy road or a construction site collects more grime than most, and it needs the same closer schedule.
You can tell when windows need it: haze shows up only when the sun is low. You can tell when gutters need it: water sheets over the edge in rain, and that can lead to water damage at the wall below. If either happens between visits, call us and we will look at it.
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 crews work across the city, and we clean residential window and gutter jobs at residential properties of every size. Booking starts with an estimate by phone or text: tell us the number of stories and send a photo of the house front. From there we set a date, and the lead time is shown when you schedule.
The two busy windows of the year are the spring season and the fall leaf drop. When those come on, our calendar fills, so book early if you want a date in those weeks. Nobody needs to be home for exterior work, and we call before we come, so you know the crew is on the way.
We also work on clean windows in the same visit as the gutters, so one appointment covers the whole job and every window the crew can reach gets done on that one trip. Schedule service by calling (866) 435-6328, and the crew will tell you the day before.
Yes. The same two people clean the gutters and the outside of the windows in one visit. We do the gutters first and the glass last, so the water from the roof does not run back across clean panes.
The number comes from the stories and the approximate window count, and that holds for condos too. We give it to you by phone or text, and we will not guess it from the street.
On our jobs, the outside carries the rain dust, the grime and the sprinkler spots. Those build up outside first, so cleaning the glass from the inside alone does not get rid of them.
Most of our customers book in the spring and in the fall. Across Illinois the spring visit lands in late May to June, and our fall visits run late October to November.
Not if the gutters come first. When the roof and runs are cleared before the glass is touched, the water has stopped dripping by the time we reach the windows.
Screens are rinsed and sills are wiped as part of the visit, which is how we remove dirt before it runs back down the glass. Tracks are included in the exterior work we do, and they are not billed separately.
Exterior only on this visit. Our washing services stop at the outside of the glass, so we do not clean windows inside the house and we do not do pressure washing. An interior and exterior job is not part of this booking.
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.
