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 the approximate window count, and doing both jobs together in one visit costs less than booking two separate trips. Most of our Taylorville customers book it in spring and fall, when the pollen and leaves are heaviest.
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, and doing both in one visit costs less than booking the two jobs separately. Our window washing and washing services are priced the same way: the number we give on the phone is the number we charge, with no add-ons appearing on the invoice later. Call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the front of the house, and we will give you a written estimate from those details.
Four things move the quote on our jobs. A third story or a roof too steep to walk takes more time on the ladder. Oversized panes and a high window count add hours. Gutters that have not been opened in years, packed with needles and leaves, need more passes. Gutter guards must be lifted and reseated before the run can be cleared, and hard-water spotting from sprinklers needs a separate treatment that no cleaning removes. Clearing the gutters and downspouts, rinsing screens and wiping sills are part of the job and are not billed as extras. Some crews quote interior and exterior glass together; ours covers the outside only, and the written estimate says so.
Here is how we get to the exact number. We ask how many stories the house has, roughly how many windows face the street and the yard, and whether the gutters have been cleaned in the past year. A photo of the house front by text answers most of that. On a recent Taylorville house the quote came in higher than the customer expected because of the window count on the second floor and a heavy seed load in the back run, both visible in the photo before we arrived. The estimate for the next house in the same neighborhood with fewer stories came in lower for the same reasons. Our crew wipes down the picture windows, the sills and the frames on every visit, and the regular cleanings are scheduled so the glass does not build up grime between seasons, which means less work to remove dirt from the frames later. We would rather you know the cost before we climb the ladder than be surprised by it after.
| 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 the houses we clean here, most customers book both jobs twice a year, once in late spring and once in late fall, which is why one crew in one visit makes sense. In late spring we find a pollen film on the south-facing glass of a residential window, and pollen paste packed in the gutters. In fall the leaf load comes down, and a wet mat of leaves is what we clear before winter. Spring pollen and fall leaf residue call for different cleaning solutions, so the crew adjusts the mix to the season. Storm and wind seasons can shift those dates, so we check the calendar with you when you book. The same schedule works for residential properties and for residential and commercial buildings alike, and the timing above applies to both.
Some houses need a third visit. Heavy tree cover over the roof keeps the downspouts packed between visits, and clogged gutters push water over the lip, so the runoff lands on the siding below between cleanings. A sprinkler line that hits the glass leaves spots that come back a day after cleaning, and multi-story buildings and houses near a busy road or construction pick up extra dust on the frames. Rain alone does not solve any of that, which is why we look at the house before we set a schedule.
One customer on a Taylorville street with no trees over the roof books twice a year and has not needed anything in between. Another on a shaded lot with a sprinkler line against the front windows books three or four times a year to keep the spotting from building up. Both are on the schedule that fits their house, not ours.
You will know the windows need it when you see a haze that only shows when the sun is low. Gutters need it when water sheets over the edge in a steady rain instead of running into the downspout. In Taylorville, snow and freezing in December through March make a clogged gutter a bigger risk, since backed-up water can cause water damage at the eaves. Windows inside stay on your own schedule, since this visit covers the outside of the glass. If either happens between visits, call (866) 435-6328 and we will check 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 crew works across Taylorville and its surrounding neighborhoods, and we book window cleaning services on the first date the calendar has open. The fastest way to schedule is to send a photo of the front of the house by text along with the number of stories. From there we give you an estimate and hold a date. In the two busy windows of the year, late spring and fall, the calendar fills first, so booking early keeps the slot you want.
Nobody needs to be home for exterior work. Our crew does not come inside, and we call before we come so the arrival window is clear. Plenty of homeowners take one call from us on the morning of the visit and go about their day. We are not the only window cleaners in town, but we work the same way every time: gutters first, glass last, and one crew for both.
For commercial work we also do residential gutter cleaning for homeowners, and the residential price follows the same stories and window count. Whatever the building, from a single house to a row of condos, we bring the same professional window cleaning and the same care for the sill, the frame and every window on the house, so the outside of the property keeps its curb appeal through the season. To schedule service, call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the front of the house.
Yes, on our jobs it is the same two people, and the gutters and downspouts are finished before any glass gets washed. We do the gutters first and the glass last so the runoff from the gutters never reaches clean windows.
The number comes from the stories and the window count, and we give it by phone or text. Send a photo of the front of the house and we will give you a written estimate.
On a residential window in Taylorville the outside takes most of the grime: pollen in spring, rain dust, and sprinkler spots that build up on the glass. Clean inside glass does not stop any of that from settling on the outside.
Most of our customers here book in late spring and again in late fall, after the leaves drop. Residential properties in Taylorville fill those windows first, so booking early keeps the date you want.
No, that is why we clean gutters first and glass last. If the glass is washed first, the gutter runoff splashes across it, and someone has to come back to remove dirt that should never have landed there.
Screens are rinsed and sills are wiped as part of the visit. Tracks are included on the outside of the windows as well. Condos with shared frames get the same treatment, as long as the outside of the glass can be reached.
We clean the exterior glass only on this visit. We do not do interior windows or pressure washing.
You do not need to be home. Turn the sprinklers off the night before, move cars off the driveway if windows face it, keep pets inside while 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.
