Yes, the same two-person crew cleans the gutters and handles the window washing on the outside of your house in one visit. We clean gutters first and glass last, so nothing runs back onto clean panes. We price by the number of stories and the approximate window count, and both jobs booked together cost less than two separate trips. Across Iowa, most of our customers book the work for spring and fall, when the pollen and leaves have built up. Call (866) 435-6328 and we will confirm your price before we book a date.
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. Booking gutter cleaning and professional window cleaning in one visit costs less than two separate trips, and the number we give on the phone is the number we charge. If you only book window cleaners for the glass, the gutters still need their own visit.
On our jobs, the things that move a quote are consistent. Multi-story buildings and houses with a roof too steep to walk take longer to set up. Picture windows and other oversized panes, plus the window count, change the time at the glass. Gutters that have not been cleaned in years are packed with needles, seeds and leaves, and the clogged gutters take more hours to clear. Gutter guards have to be lifted and reseated before a run can be cleaned, and hard-water spotting from sprinklers does not come off with a regular cleaning. Downspout flushing, screen rinsing and sill wiping are part of the job and are not billed as extras. The price covers the outside glass only, since windows inside are a separate job.
Across Iowa, the houses that cost the most to do right are the ones with the most stories and the most glass, plus a sprinkler line that hits the windows every night. Those are the jobs where a rushed cleaning leaves water damage behind on the trim below. Clean glass and clear gutters also do more for curb appeal than most owners expect. Send us a text with the number of stories and a photo of the front of the house, and we will give you the exact number before we book a date.
| 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 customers schedule service twice a year, once in spring and once in fall, and we run the gutters and clean windows on the same calendar. Across Iowa, that means spring and fall, which is when the pollen film on south-facing glass and the sticky film in the gutters are heaviest, and when the leaf load comes down. One crew in one visit makes sense for both.
On our jobs, the spring visit is when we find the fine dust film on the outside glass and the seed and catkin packed into the downspout elbows. The fall visit is when we find the wet leaf mat in the gutters and the grit that washes down the wall all winter. Storms and high winds move the dates a little, and a bad season is a reason to call us earlier, not later.
Some houses need a third visit. Heavy tree cover over the roof keeps needles and grit coming into the gutters between cleanings. A sprinkler line that hits every window leaves spots that come back a day after cleaning, and those are mineral spots, not dirt. On a residential window in a house near a busy road or a construction site, grime builds up faster on the glass. If your house is one of these, we will tell you after the first visit how often it needs to come back.
Two signs tell you it is time without any visit. The first is a haze on the glass that you only see when the sun is low. The second is water sheeting over the gutter edge in a steady rain. Either one means the job is due, and a photo of either one is enough for us to tell you what it needs.
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.
We book Carroll window cleaning services by phone at (866) 435-6328 or by text. Send the number of stories and a photo of the front of the house, and we will confirm the estimate and the date. Nobody needs to be home for exterior work. We call before we come, and we will tell you the window we are arriving in.
Our washing services reach residential properties around town, plus the small commercial buildings, including offices, the occasional restaurant and a few condos, and we handle residential and commercial jobs the same way. On the commercial side we clean gutters and downspouts, check for runoff at the outlets and remove dirt that builds up on the lower courses. We keep the same schedule for every building we service so the work does not drift.
Booking is busiest in the two windows of the year when tree litter and leaves build up. The calendar fills during those weeks, and the earlier you call, the sooner you get a date. Outside those weeks there is usually room, and the lead time is shown on our booking line when you call.
Yes. The same crew does both in one visit, gutters first and glass last, so the dirty water from the gutters never reaches the clean panes.
We do not quote a figure without seeing the house. The number comes from the stories and the size of the house, and we give it by phone or text.
On our jobs, the outside carries the fine dust film, the rain dust and the sprinkler spots, and those do not come off with inside cleaning. Clean outside glass also lets you see the trim and sills for water damage.
Most of our Carroll customers book regular cleanings in spring and fall, which is when seeds and leaves build up. Across Iowa the same two windows apply.
No, because the order is gutters first and glass last. The roof gets cleared, the downspouts get flushed, and the wall gets time to dry before anyone touches a window.
Screens are rinsed, sills are wiped and tracks are cleaned as part of the job, and none of them are billed as extras.
On this visit we clean the exterior glass only, since interior glass is not included in the price. The exterior glass is washed with purified water, so the panes dry without the film that some cleaning solutions leave behind. We do not do pressure washing.
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.
