Yes, the same two people clean the gutters and the outside of the windows in one visit, gutters first and glass last. We price it by the number of stories, and both jobs in one visit cost less than booking them as two separate trips. On our Bangor jobs, most of our customers book it in the spring and again in the fall, when the spring tree dust and the leaf drop have left their marks on both the gutters and the glass.
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.
Window and gutter cleaning is priced by stories and approximate window count, and the bundle in one visit costs less than booking the two jobs separately. Some window cleaners quote the glass alone, but we quote the gutters with it. The number we give on the phone is the number on the invoice. Cleaning gutters and downspouts is part of the job, and downspout flushing, screen rinsing and sill wiping are not billed as extras. The quote covers exterior glass only, so the interior and exterior of a house are never priced as one job here.
On the day, the crew finds what drives the quote: a third story or a roof steep enough that we work from a boom or scissor lift, oversized panes and a high window count, clogged gutters that have not been opened in years and are packed with needles and leaves, gutter guards that must be lifted and reseated, and hard-water spotting from sprinklers that no cleaning removes. Gutters that sit clogged for years can also leave water damage on the fascia, and the crew names it in the photos. Every one of those is photographed and named in the quote before work starts. Heavy spring tree dust means more cleaning solutions and more time on the glass, and the visits that remove dirt most completely are the ones booked before the film sets.
Our Bangor jobs are a mix of residential and commercial buildings, and the same rule applies to both: the number is set from the site walk, not guessed from the street. For a residential house, we ask for a photo of the front by text and the stories count. For a building with picture windows or several floors, including a condo or a multi-story building, we walk it first. We have been asked about regular cleanings for properties that stay busy all year, and the schedule follows what the glass and the gutters show, not a fixed plan. A clean front does a lot for curb appeal, and that photo tells us what the job needs. On that same visit we write up how the exterior windows and runs look, so the next quote starts from facts. To get your number, call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the front of the house, and we book the date from there.
| 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 Maine, our customers book both jobs twice a year, which is why one crew in one visit makes sense, unlike window cleaners who only do the glass. The spring visit comes in mid to late June across Maine, and on our Bangor jobs the fall visit falls in October to early November, with both jobs on the same calendar.
At each visit we find different things. In June the pollen film sits on south-facing glass and the tree residue is packed into the gutter elbows. In the fall the leaf load and the wet leaf mat are the main problem: clogged gutters send runoff down the wall, and a house that skipped that visit tends to show sagging runs by spring, along with grime on the sill and water damage on the fascia. Across Maine, nor'easters can drop wet snow and rain in the same storm, which is why the fall visit is set before the first hard freeze.
Some houses need a third visit. We see that most with heavy tree cover over the roof, where needles and grit pack the downspouts between cleanings; with a sprinkler line that hits the glass and leaves spots that come back a day later; and with a house near a busy road or a construction site, where dust settles fast. Those homes, and multi-story buildings with the same problem, are the ones where a regular schedule makes sense, and the cleaning services we add are sized to that. A professional window cleaning visit can also be scheduled as a single job if the house only needs one pass that season.
You will see the sign windows need it when a haze shows up only when the sun is low. Gutters need it when water sheets over the edge in rain. Either one is a reason to call, not a reason to climb a ladder yourself.
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.
Booking starts with a phone call or a text: tell us the number of stories and send a photo of the house front, and we give you a quote. To schedule service, call (866) 435-6328 and we confirm a slot. Our window and gutter cleaning in Bangor is scheduled from there, and the lead time is set by the calendar that week. The two busy windows of the year are the spring tree dust season and the fall leaf drop, and in those stretches the calendar fills, so the sooner you call the better the slot.
Nobody needs to be home for exterior work, and we call before we come. The crew does not come inside, so the windows inside the house stay out of the visit, and the work stays on the outside, from the roofline down to the sill. We treat every window on the outside of the house as part of the job, and the aim is clean windows on every floor. Every run of gutter gets a photo before we leave.
We work on residential properties and on commercial buildings, and the scheduling is the same for both. For a residential house, the estimate is the stories count and a photo, and every residential window on the outside is in the quote. For a commercial building, we set up a site walk so the schedule covers every floor and every drain. Either way, the crew confirms the slot in writing before it is booked, and the date is held once the estimate is accepted.
Yes. The same two-person crew does the gutters and the outside of the windows in one visit, gutters first and glass last, so nothing from the gutters washes onto clean windows.
The number comes from the stories and the size of the house, and we give it by phone or text. We do not quote a figure without seeing the house.
On our jobs the outside takes the spring tree dust, rain dust and sprinkler spots that the inside never sees, so the outside is the side that gets dirty first.
Across Maine the spring visit falls in mid to late June, and most of our Bangor customers book the fall visit for October to early November. Book the spring visit before the tree dust settles and the fall visit before the first hard freeze.
No. Gutters go first, glass last, so the runoff from the gutters and downspouts is gone before anyone touches the windows.
Screens, sills and tracks are part of the exterior job and are not billed as extras. The crew rinses each screen to remove dirt, and screens go back in the window they came out of.
Yes. A condo is quoted from a site walk like any multi-story building, with the stories count and the window count set before the crew books a slot.
Our washing services cover the exterior glass only on this visit. We do not do interior glass, and 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.
