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 the approximate window count, and doing both together costs less than booking two separate trips. On our Howell jobs most customers book this in the fall, once the leaves are down, and across Michigan the spring visit lands late May to June, when the pollen is at its worst.
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 gutter and window cleaning by the number of stories and the approximate window count, and doing both in one visit costs less than booking the two jobs separately. The number we give on the phone is the number we charge, and we give it after we know the stories and the window count, not before.
What moves the quote is what the crew finds on the day. A third story or a roof too steep to walk takes longer on the ladder. Oversized panes and a lot of picture windows take more time at the glass. Gutters that have not been opened in years, or are packed with needles and leaves, take more clearing before the flush. Gutter guards have to be lifted and reseated before the run can be cleared, and hard-water spotting from sprinklers is a separate issue that no cleaning removes. Downspout flushing, screen rinsing and sill wiping are part of the job and are not billed as extras.
On our Howell jobs the quote changes most with the stories and the number of windows, so the fastest way to get an accurate figure is to give us those two numbers and send a photo of the front of the house by text. Call (866) 435-6328 and we will tell you what the crew will look for and what it will cost before anyone gets on a ladder. This page covers residential homes only, so we do not quote residential and commercial buildings from it. Most of our customers, when they have the window and gutter cleaning done together, find the one-visit price easier to plan than two separate calls. Some properties need a closer look on a second visit because of heavy tree cover or a sprinkler line hitting the glass, and we will say so up front rather than adding it later.
Our crew does the regular cleanings on schedule, and the same approach works for a first cleaning on a house that has not had one in a long time. Interior and exterior work is not part of this visit, and we do not do pressure washing on it. Our exterior window cleaning uses purified water, so the glass dries clean with no cleaning solutions left to streak it, and the outside of the house gets the same care as the gutters.
| 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 of our Howell customers book both twice a year, once in the fall, October to early November, and once in the spring, which runs late May to June across Michigan. That calendar is why one crew in one visit makes sense, and it is the same whether you call window cleaners for the glass or a gutter service for the runs. Across Michigan the pattern is much the same, and it works well with the calendar of most cleaning services.
What we find at each visit follows the season. In the spring we find pollen film on the south-facing glass and pollen paste packed into the gutters. In the fall we find the leaf load that has been building since the trees turned. Storms and wind move the dates a little, so we look at the house as well as the calendar. Heavy tree cover over the roof, a sprinkler line hitting the glass so the spots come back a day later, or a house near a busy road or a construction site often needs a third visit. Clogged gutters on multi-story buildings are usually the upper runs, and those houses can need a third visit too. On those properties we tell you when we see it, and we plan the third visit with you.
Professional window cleaning is only worth scheduling when the glass and the gutters are both getting the attention they need, so we keep the two on the same calendar. Window cleaners who only do the glass leave the gutters out of the picture, and a clogged run can send water toward the foundation, which is where water damage starts. A house with few or no trees usually does well with one visit a year in late fall. A house under heavy trees, or one that has had the sprinkler spotting, does better on three or four visits, because the downspouts pack up between visits and the glass picks up grime faster. Clean glass and clear gutters also keep the curb appeal up between visits.
The sign that windows need cleaning is haze you only notice when the sun is low, and the sign that gutters need cleaning is water sheeting over the edge in a rain, which is usually a sign of clogged gutters. If you see either one between visits, text us a photo and we will tell you what we think. We clean the outside only, so the windows inside stay with you.
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 cleans residential properties across Howell and the surrounding area, and a window and gutter cleaning visit is the same service on every house. To book, call (866) 435-6328 or text us the number of stories and a photo of the house front, and we will give you a quote and a date. Most estimates come back quickly, and the lead time depends on the time of year, so the calendar tells you more than we can promise here.
Spring and fall are our busy windows. When the pollen season or the leaf drop starts, our calendar fills, and the slots go faster. If you are planning around one of those windows, it helps to book early. We will tell you what we have open when you call, and we will give you a date you can count on rather than a vague window.
Nobody needs to be home for the exterior work. We call before we come, we do not come inside, and we send photos of every window and gutter run to your phone when we finish. Our crew works on clean windows and cleaned gutters on every visit, and we check each residential window before we leave so nothing is missed. We schedule service around your house, not the other way round, and the crew treats every window the same, from the picture windows to the smallest sill.
Yes. The same two people clean the gutters and the outside of the windows in one visit, gutters first and glass last, so you do not need two bookings.
Pricing for our washing services depends on the stories and the size of the house, and we give the number by phone or text, because a quote from the street would only be a guess.
Yes, because the outside carries the pollen, the rain dust, the runoff from the gutters and the sprinkler spots that the inside never sees. Cleaning the outside is how you remove dirt and grime that rain has already dried onto the glass, and this holds for houses and condos alike, as long as the exterior glass can be reached from a ladder or a pole.
Most of our customers here book in the fall, October to early November, after the leaves fall. Across Michigan the spring visit runs late May to June, after the pollen drop, and the pattern is the same.
Not with our order of work. We clear the gutters and downspouts first, so the runoff has already drained before anyone touches the windows, and nothing runs back down onto the clean panes.
Screens, sills and tracks are part of the visit on the exterior, and we do not bill them as extras. We rinse the screens, wipe the sills and clear the tracks on the outside of each window.
We clean the exterior only on this visit. We do not do interior glass or pressure washing here.
You do not need to be home. Turn the sprinklers off the night before, move cars off the driveway if the windows face it, 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.
