Yes, the same two people handle our gutter cleaning and window cleaning services in one visit. We do the gutters first and the glass last, so nothing runs down onto clean panes. We price the job by the number of stories and the approximate window count, and booking both together costs less than two separate trips. To get a number, call (866) 435-6328 with your story count and window count.
Most of our Barnstable Town customers book it in the spring and again in the fall, when the pollen and the leaves have had their turn on the house. We have been doing professional window washing and gutter work on these streets long enough to know where the dirt collects.
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.
Our washing services are priced by the number of stories and the approximate window count, and the number we give on the phone is the number we charge. Window washing and gutter cleaning in one visit cost less than booking them separately, and we tell you the exact saving when we quote. Nothing in the figure is a guess about the house; it comes from what we see when we measure it, and an interior and exterior quote is a separate conversation because we clean the outside glass only.
What moves the quote on our jobs is what the crew finds on the day. A third story or a roof too steep to walk takes more time on a ladder. Window count matters, and so do oversized picture windows that need a boom or scissor lift to reach the upper panes. Gutters that have not been cleared in years, or packed with needles and leaves, take longer to clean out properly. Gutter guards have to be lifted and reseated before we can get to the run underneath. Grime that bakes on is one line item, and hard-water spotting from sprinklers is another, which we flag early because no cleaning removes it.
Cleaning gutters and downspouts, rinsing screens and wiping sills are part of the job, not extras we bill on top. Regular cleanings let the crew compare this year's photos with last year's, and if something on the roof needs repair, the crew reports it to you; we do not sell repairs.
On a recent Barnstable Town job, the quote came in higher than the customer expected because the house had three stories, a steep front roof and a long run of gutter hidden behind a row of shrubs. Once the crew had measured the window count and walked the roofline, the number on the phone matched the invoice. We ask for the stories, the window count and a photo of the front of the house by text, and that is usually enough to give you a firm number before we book the date.
| 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.
Most of our Barnstable Town customers book both gutters and windows twice a year, once in spring and once in fall, which is why one crew in one visit makes sense on this schedule. In spring we find a film of pollen on south-facing glass and a paste of pollen in the gutters that the rain does not wash out. In fall we find the leaf load, the wet mat that sits in the runs and drags water over the edge, and clogged gutters are the first thing the crew clears.
Some houses need a third visit. Heavy tree cover over the roof keeps the gutters loaded through the year, and multi-story buildings with tall eaves are harder to clear from the ground. A sprinkler line that hits the glass leaves spots that come back a day after cleaning, and no ordinary cleaning solutions remove them. A house near a busy road or a construction site picks up a fine grime that builds on the lower panes faster than on a quieter street, and a gutter that holds that grime can lead to water damage.
A customer on a Barnstable Town street with no trees books the twice-a-year visit and is done with it. A customer on the same street with heavy shade and a sprinkler on the front lawn books three or four visits a year, because the gutters and the glass both need it. Residential and commercial buildings could follow the same logic, but this page covers houses only, so the frequency advice here is for homes. Which of those your house is closer to becomes clear after the first visit, and we tell you what we found.
Windows tell you they need cleaning when you see a haze on the glass only when the sun is low in the afternoon. Gutters tell you when they need cleaning when water sheets over the edge in the rain instead of running down the downspout. If you see either, send us a photo and we will tell you what it is.
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 are window cleaners who also clean gutters, and we book the work the same way on every house across the Barnstable Town area. To schedule service, call (866) 435-6328 or text us the number of stories and a photo of the front of the house, and we give you an estimate before we set a date. The lead time depends on the season and is set on the phone when we quote, so you know the date before you hang up.
The two busy windows of the year are the spring pollen season and the late fall leaf drop, and that is when our calendar fills fastest. If you want a slot in either window, book early, because professional window cleaning and gutter runs both fill up in those weeks. Outside those windows the calendar is easier to fit, and a date usually comes up quickly. For many owners the point is curb appeal, and the gutter and glass work shows most from the street.
We call before we come, and the crew arrives in the window we gave you. Nobody needs to be home for exterior work, because the crew does not come inside. We schedule service around your house, not the other way round, and every window on the quote gets done in that visit.
Yes. The same two people clean the gutters first and the glass last, in one visit, so the water from the gutters never lands on clean windows.
The number comes from the stories and the size of the house, since we price residential properties that way, and we give it to you by phone or text before we book. We do not quote a figure without those details.
On our Barnstable Town jobs the outside carries the pollen, the rain dust and the sprinkler spots, and water coming off the roof streaks the lower panes, so the glass often looks worse from outside than inside. An inside wipe will not remove dirt that sits on the outer pane.
Across Massachusetts, the spring visit falls in late May to June and the fall visit in late October to November, after the leaves come down. Book early for either window, because those are the busiest weeks.
No, because we clean gutters first and glass last. When the leaves and grit come down the wall, the runoff carries them across any window below, so the glass waits until the gutters are cleared and the downspouts flushed. We take the same approach on condos, where a run above one unit can drain across the glass of the unit below.
On a residential window, screens are rinsed and sills are wiped as part of the job. Tracks are included in the visit when they are reachable from the outside.
We clean the exterior glass only on this visit, so the windows inside the house are not included, and we do not do pressure washing here.
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. Text a photo of the roofline if you want a firm estimate before booking.
Stories, rough window count, a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
