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 doing both jobs together costs less than booking two separate trips. On our Lake Arbor jobs, most customers book this bundle in the spring and again in the fall, so the crew knows the calendar your house runs on.
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 residential properties in Lake Arbor by the number of stories and the approximate window count, and the bundle done in one visit costs less than booking the gutters and the glass separately. The number we give you on the phone is the number on the invoice.
What moves the quote is what the crew finds on the day: a third story or a steep roof that has to be worked from a boom or scissor lift, a high count of windows or oversized panes, gutters that have not been cleared in years, leaves and needles packed into the runs, a layer of grime in the gutter seams, gutter guards that must be lifted and reseated, and hard-water spotting from a sprinkler line that no cleaning removes. Downspout flushing, screen rinsing and sill wiping are part of the job and are not billed as extras. Work on the windows inside is a separate job and is not in this number, and the window washing line on the quote counts only the outside panes. The crew handles quotes for multi-story buildings on their own.
On one Lake Arbor job, the quote came up because the house had a steep back roof, a run of tall windows, and gutters that had gone a long time between cleanings, which is how clogged gutters tend to start pushing water into the wall and cause water damage at the trim. Once the crew had counted stories and windows from a photo of the front of the house, the number was set before anyone climbed a ladder. Any house can get that number the same way: send a text with the stories and a photo of the house front, and we will give you the figure we will charge. Priced this way, professional window cleaning leaves no surprise on the invoice, and clean glass and clear gutters also help curb appeal before a sale.
| Gutters only | Exterior windows only | Both in one visit | |
|---|---|---|---|
| One story | from $150 | from $170 | from $275 |
| Two stories | from $225 | from $240 | from $375 |
| Three stories | from $295 | from $330 | from $495 |
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 Maryland, most of our customers book regular cleanings of gutters and exterior glass twice a year, and in Lake Arbor the spring and fall visits follow the same calendar, which is why one crew doing both in one visit makes sense. On our Lake Arbor jobs, the first visit in spring is when the pollen film shows on south-facing glass and the pollen paste sits in the downspout elbows. The fall visit clears the leaf load before the first hard freeze, so the runs do not sag under ice.
Storm and wind seasons move those dates. A summer thunderstorm can drop a branch tip into a run, and a windy stretch in fall can leave a leaf mat two inches deep in the gutters. A residential window under a sprinkler head gets spotted fastest. Houses under heavy tree cover over the roof, a sprinkler line that hits the glass, or a house near a busy road or construction usually need a third visit, because grit and needles pack the runs between cycles and the sprinkler spots come back a day after cleaning. On those jobs the crew checks every window on the affected side before it leaves.
The sign the windows need a visit is haze you only see when the sun is low in the afternoon. On clean windows, that haze is the first thing you notice, so it is the easiest sign to catch. The sign the gutters need it is runoff sheeting over the edge in a light rain, which is a clog, not a slope problem, so call us before it gets worse. Book the first visit of the year with a schedule service date, and we will tell you which interval your lot actually 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 clean gutters and downspouts and exterior windows across Lake Arbor, and we handle the washing services and window cleaning services that a homeowner usually wants from one crew. The crew clears the runs, flushes the downspouts, and rinses the frames to remove dirt before the glass is done. The booking starts with an estimate by phone at (866) 435-6328 or by text: send the number of stories and a photo of the house front, and we can give a number the same day we hear from you. Lead time depends on the calendar at the time you call, so the crew confirms the date when the estimate is given. Expect a call from us before we come.
The two busy windows are the spring season and the fall leaf drop, when our calendar fills and the sprinklers and the leaf mat are most visible from the street. Book early in those windows if you want a set date. Nobody needs to be home for exterior work; the crew stays outside, and photos of every run arrive before the truck leaves.
Yes. The same two people do the gutters and the outside of the windows in one visit, and they do the gutters first so nothing from the runs lands on the clean glass. We do not split the work between two companies.
The number comes from the number of stories and the approximate window count, and we give it by phone or text. We do not quote a range on this page. Call (866) 435-6328 or text us the stories and a photo of the house front, and we will give you the figure.
On a Lake Arbor house the outside carries the spring film, rain dust, and sprinkler spots that cleaning inside the glass will never touch. Clean interior glass looks worse next to dirty exterior glass, so customers who want interior and exterior glass done should book the inside as its own job. Most customers keep the outside on a regular cycle.
Our Lake Arbor customers book in spring, once the spring haze has come off the glass, and in fall, before the first hard freeze and after the leaves come down. Across Maryland the pattern is the same, and the crew confirms the date when you call.
Not on our jobs. Gutters go first and the glass goes last, because the leaves, the grit and the black water under them run down the wall and across any window below. Washing the glass first means washing it twice.
Screens are rinsed and sills are wiped as part of the job. Tracks are cleaned as well when they are reachable from outside, and large picture windows are cleaned outside on the same visit, with their size already counted in the quote. If a spot needs cleaning solutions beyond water, the crew says so and quotes them before anything is used. Apart from those, none of it is billed as an extra line.
We clean exterior glass only on this visit. We do not do interior windows, and we do not do pressure washing of siding or walks. This page covers houses only, so residential and commercial jobs, condos and multi-story buildings are not priced from it.
No, 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. That is the whole list.
Stories, rough window count, a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
