Yes, the same two people clean your gutters and the outside of your windows in one visit, gutters first and glass last. We price it by the number of stories and an approximate window count, and doing both in one visit costs less than booking two separate trips. Across Illinois, most of our customers book this in spring and fall, and it is the same crew who does the work. Call (866) 435-6328 to get your quote.
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 doing the window and gutter work together in one visit comes in below booking the two as separate jobs. The number we give on the phone is the number on the invoice. Nothing about the price is decided by how the house looks from the street; it is decided by what the crew will find when it gets on the ladder. Interior and exterior glass are not the same job, and this visit covers the exterior only. The same stories and window count set the quote for residential and commercial jobs alike.
On our jobs, the things that move the quote are predictable. A third story or a roof too steep to walk means a boom or scissor lift and more setup time. Oversized picture windows and tall panes take longer per pane. Gutters that have not been opened in years, or are packed with needles and leaves, need more hand clearing before anything gets flushed. Gutter guards have to be lifted and reseated before we can reach the run underneath, and that gets quoted by the foot before the visit. Hard-water spotting left by sprinklers does not come off with cleaning solutions alone and needs a separate treatment, which we flag on the visit rather than bill silently. Pollen and dust that have baked onto the glass in a dry spell can add time too. Downspout flushing, screen rinsing and sill wiping are part of the job and are not billed as extras. If you book regular cleanings, each of the cleanings gets its own quote from the same photo and count.
Here is how we get the exact number. Send us a text with a photo of the front of the house, tell us how many stories it has, and give us a rough count of the windows on the outside. From that we can tell you whether it is one visit or two, and what the bundle comes to. Customers who book the gutters and the windows together usually want to know how much of the house they can have done in a single morning, and the answer depends on the stories and the glass, which is why we ask for the photo first. Once the crew is on site, the number does not change unless something in the gutters is different from what the photo showed, and if it is we tell you before we touch it.
| 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 cleaning services twice a year, in spring and again in fall, and in Round Lake that is the calendar we work to as well. Spring visits across Illinois fall in late May to June, and fall visits in late October to November. Keeping both on one schedule is why professional window cleaning and gutter work in one visit makes sense for most houses. Our visits cover the outside only, so the windows inside stay on whatever schedule you already keep.
In spring, what we find on the glass is pollen laid down as a film on the south-facing panes, and in the gutters it has settled into a paste at the downspout elbows. April through June is the wettest stretch of the year in Round Lake, and window cleaners see that film build up fastest. In fall it is the leaf load, wet and matted, sitting in the runs and sometimes sagging the hangers under its weight. Storm and wind seasons, the summer derechos and severe thunderstorms that come through the state, can shift the dates, and after a heavy blow we would rather see a house sooner than wait for the calendar.
Most houses do fine on regular cleanings, but some need a third visit. Heavy tree cover over the roof puts needles and grit into the downspouts between visits, and on those houses we see clogged gutters sooner. A sprinkler line that hits the glass leaves spots that come back a day after cleaning, and those need a treatment rather than another pass. A house close to a busy road or a construction site takes more dust onto the glass, and the same is true of multi-story buildings with a lot of exterior glass.
You will know the windows need attention when a haze shows only when the sun is low, and a haze like that cuts into the curb appeal of the whole front of the house. Gutters need attention when water sheets over the edge in rain instead of running down the downspout. Either sign means it is time to call. Gutters that sheet water over the edge for a season are how water damage starts on the fascia and the siding below.
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 does window and gutter cleaning across Round Lake, and it works the same way whichever street the house is on. Booking starts with a call to (866) 435-6328 or a text. We ask for the number of stories and a photo of the house front, and from that we can give you an estimate and a date. The usual lead time is set on your estimate, and we tell you the date before we book it so you know when to expect us.
The two busy windows of the year are the spring season and the fall leaf drop, and those are when our calendar fills fastest. If you want a slot in either window, it is worth calling early. Outside of those months it is usually easier to schedule service on a date that suits you.
Nobody needs to be home for exterior work. We call before we come, and the crew works outside without coming in. We serve residential properties, condos included, and we clean windows on houses from a single story to a three-story house with a lot of glass. Each residential window gets the same pass. We clean every window on the outside, and every sill is wiped as part of the visit. For residential and commercial buildings beyond that, ask on the call and we will say plainly whether the job fits. If you have a question about your house before you book, ask it on the call and we will answer it plainly.
Yes, on our jobs the same two people do both, in one visit. That is professional window cleaning and gutter work done together, not two bookings. We clean the gutters first and the glass last, so nothing dirty runs down onto clean panes. You get one quote and one invoice.
This is one of the frequently asked questions we get, and the honest answer is that we do not quote a figure without the house in front of us. The number comes from the stories, the window count and what is in the gutters, and we give it by phone or text once we have the photo.
On our Round Lake jobs, the outside carries most of the grime: film from the air, rain dust and sprinkler spots that land on the glass from outside. We remove dirt from the frame and the pane in one pass. Clean outside glass also lets the inside look better, and it does a lot for curb appeal.
Across Illinois, our spring visits run late May to June and our fall visits run late October to November. Most of our customers book in those windows, after the spring film builds up and after the leaves come down. That timing catches the most material in the gutters and on the glass.
No, gutters first and glass last is the reason we do the order this way. The leaves, grit and black water from cleared gutters and downspouts come down the wall, and the runoff from a flushed downspout splashes the panes beside the outlet. So the glass waits until the gutters and downspouts are finished.
Screens are rinsed and sills are wiped as part of the visit. Tracks fall under the same washing services in the same pass, and none of it is billed as an extra.
We do exterior glass only on this visit. We do not clean windows inside the house, and we do not do pressure washing; if those are what you need, tell us on the call and we will say so plainly.
No, you do not need to be home. Turn the sprinklers off the night before, move cars off the driveway if the windows face it, keep pets inside while the ladders are up, and leave the side gate unlocked. That is the whole list, and condos get the same exterior visit with the same steps.
Stories, rough window count, a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
