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 both jobs done together cost less than booking them as two separate trips. Across Illinois, most of our customers book this bundle in the spring and fall, and that calendar is the one we keep for West Deerfield Township homes too.
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, the bundle done in one visit costs less than booking the two jobs separately, and the number we give on the phone is the number we charge. What we quote is what you pay.
On our jobs, the quote moves with a handful of things the crew finds on the day. A third story or a steep roof changes the setup. Window cleaning services for a house with many picture windows take longer per pane than standard sashes, because the big panes need more passes. Gutters that have not been opened in years, packed with needles and leaves, take more time to clear, and guards we have to lift and reseat add labor. Hard-water spotting from sprinklers is a separate treatment that no cleaning removes, so we check for it at the quote and price it apart. Downspout flushing, screen rinsing and sill wiping are part of the job, not billed as extras. Interior glass is not part of this bundle, so the quote is for the exterior alone and never picks up an interior and exterior add-on.
For a West Deerfield Township home, the simplest way to get the exact number is to call (866) 435-6328 and tell us the stories and roughly how many windows the house has. Our washing services are quoted from those two numbers, and a photo of the front of the house helps us check the setup. We have found that a photo of the front and the back run of gutter answers most of the questions we would otherwise ask on the phone. Most window washing jobs we quote this way come in without a surprise on the invoice, because the photo shows us the setup in advance.
Homeowners who call about window washing and gutters often ask whether the bundle is worth it compared to a window-only visit. The answer depends on whether the gutters are carrying debris that will run down the glass in the next rain, which the photo usually shows. For the cleanings that matter most, the regular cleanings on a set calendar cost less over a year than one-off visits made after the grime has built up.
| 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 customers book the bundle twice a year, once in spring and once in fall, which is why one crew in one visit makes sense for both jobs. The spring visit is late May to June, and the fall visit is late October to November. The windows inside are not part of either visit, so the calendar only covers the outside glass and the runs.
In the spring visit, we find pollen on south-facing glass and pollen paste in the gutters. Pollen film shows up on the glass first, so the window and gutter work waits until the seed drop has finished. On the glass, purified water handles most of it, and the crew reaches for cleaning solutions only on film that water does not lift. In the fall, the leaf load is what we find, the wet leaf mat that sits in clogged gutters until the first hard freeze, and a run that backs up can send water over the edge and into the wall, which is how water damage starts. Storm and wind seasons, the summer derechos and severe thunderstorms across Illinois, hit residential and commercial buildings alike and can move the dates, and a storm after the spring visit is a cue to look at the runs again.
Some homes need a third visit. Heavy tree cover over the roof, where needles and grit pack the downspouts between visits, is one case. A sprinkler line that hits the glass is another, because the spots come back a day after a cleaning. Multi-story buildings collect grime faster on the upper runs, and a house near a busy road does too, so those customers usually book three or four times a year rather than two.
You will know windows need cleaning again when you see a haze that only shows when the sun is low. You will know gutters need it when water sheets over the edge in rain instead of running down the downspout.
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 West Deerfield Township and the surrounding area, and we keep a calendar that fills in the busy windows of spring and fall. To book, call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the front of the house with your stories and a rough window count. Once the estimate is set, we give you a slot and call before we come, so nobody has to guess when the truck will be at the curb. Clean glass and clear runs do a lot for curb appeal, and the difference shows from the street.
Nobody needs to be home for exterior work. Our window cleaners wipe each sill as the last step on the glass, and the crew checks that every window on the outside is clean before it leaves. The crew does not come inside, and you get photos of every gutter run and the finished glass by text. If the calendar is full in the busy weeks, we offer the next open date rather than squeezing a job in.
Cleaning services for homes and businesses are our focus, and we work with professional window cleaning standards on every house, so the glass and the runs come out the same whether it is your first visit or your fifth. When you schedule service with us, the same crew handles the job from the ladder to the final photo, and that continuity is part of the appeal for homeowners who want the work done without a second visit.
Yes. The same two people clean the gutters and downspouts and the outside of the windows in one visit, gutters first and glass last. That order is why we do both on one crew.
The number comes from stories and window count, not from a price list. Condos and houses with the same stories and window count get the same quote, so give us those two numbers by phone at (866) 435-6328, or text a photo of the front of the house, and we quote the exact figure before anyone climbs a ladder.
On a residential window in a house like this, the outside carries most of the grime: pollen in spring, rain dust, and sprinkler spots that build up on the glass. A professional pass on the outside panes is how you remove dirt from glass that rain alone never lifts, and the inside can stay as it is while the outside still changes how the windows look from the street.
Residential properties in West Deerfield Township usually book in late May or June for the spring visit and in late October or November for the fall visit. Those are the two times we keep open for the bundle.
No. We clear the gutters and flush the downspouts first, let the wall stop dripping, and only then start on the glass, so the runoff from the runs never washes down onto clean panes.
Screens are rinsed and sills are wiped as part of the job. Tracks are included on most visits, and we tell you on the quote if a track is too clogged to clear in one pass.
Not on this visit. We clean the exterior glass only, and the windows inside stay as they are. Pressure washing is a separate service we do not offer on the same visit.
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.
