Yes, the same two people clean your gutters and the outside of your windows in one visit. We do the gutters first and the glass last, so nothing runs back onto clean panes. We price it by the number of stories and the approximate window count, and doing both in one visit costs less than booking two separate trips. Across Michigan, most of our customers book spring and fall, and the Shelby houses we work on follow the same pattern.
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 window and gutter cleaning by the number of stories and the approximate window count. Doing both in one visit costs less than booking the two jobs separately, and the number we give you on the phone is the number we charge. Stories and window count set the base, and we confirm both from a photo of the front of the house sent by text. Cleaning solutions, water and equipment are part of the price.
On the day, the crew finds what pushes a quote up. A steep roof or a third story means longer set-up. Oversized picture windows take more time per pane. Gutters that have not been opened in years, or are packed with needles and leaves, need more clearing. Gutter guards have to be lifted and reseated before the run can be cleared. Hard-water spotting from a sprinkler line hitting the glass will not come off with cleaning alone. Downspout flushing, screen rinsing and sill wiping are part of the job and are not billed as extras.
Here is what drives the number for a typical Shelby house. A two-story home with a standard run of gutters and a normal window count is the simplest quote. A home with heavy tree cover, a sprinkler system or a long run of picture windows is the one we most often walk around before we quote. Send a photo and tell us the stories, and we will tell you which of those your house is.
Across Michigan, the crews we send out handle the same range of houses, so the process of getting an exact number is the same everywhere. Residential and commercial jobs follow the same steps. Give us the stories, the window count and a photo of the front of the house, and you get one price, quoted over the phone or by text, with no surprise on the invoice. Interior and exterior work is quoted separately, so this price covers the exterior only.
| 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 customers across Michigan book gutters and exterior glass twice a year, in spring and again in fall, which is why one crew in one visit makes sense for both. On our jobs, the spring visit catches the pollen film on south-facing glass and the pollen paste sitting in the gutters. The fall visit catches the leaf load that has built up over the season and any storm or wind damage that moved the dates.
Some houses need a third visit. Heavy tree cover over the roof keeps needles and grit moving into the downspouts between visits, so those houses fill up faster, and clogged gutters are the first thing we check on them. Across Michigan, severe thunderstorms can push debris into the gutters between visits. A sprinkler line hitting the glass leaves spots that return a day after cleaning. A house close to a busy road or an active construction site picks up more grime than a quiet street. Those are the cases we see most often when a second visit is not enough, and a run that stays clogged can send water back toward the fascia, the start of water damage.
Most houses on our schedule run regular cleanings on a cycle that matches the house, and the crew can help you set one. Condos, commercial buildings and multi-story buildings often follow a tighter schedule because they carry more glass and more roof area.
Two signs tell you the windows are due. The first is a haze you only notice when the sun is low, which means a film has built up on the glass, and that film pulls down curb appeal. The second is water sheeting over the edge of a gutter in the rain, which means the run is clogged or sagging. If you see either one, call us, and we will look at it before the next rain.
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 window and gutter cleaning, and our other cleaning services, by phone at (866) 435-6328 or by text with your stories and a photo of the house front. Once we have that, we give you a date and a time window. Across Michigan, the spring visit runs late May to June and the fall visit late October to November, and our calendar fills in those windows, so booking early keeps the date you want.
Nobody needs to be home for exterior work. We call before we come, and the crew works outside, does not come inside, and sends photos of the finished run and glass before the truck leaves. Every window that is reachable from outside gets cleaned, and that includes the sill and the frame on each one. Windows inside stay as they are, since this visit covers the outside only.
We handle window and gutter cleaning on residential properties and on clean windows that need regular attention. Each residential window on the house is cleaned in the same visit as the gutters. Professional window cleaning and gutter work run as one job, so there is one invoice and one set of photos for the whole visit. If you want to schedule service, call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the roofline and the number of stories, and we will confirm a window for the visit.
Yes. We are a gutter cleaning company, so the same two people do both jobs in one visit. They clean the gutters first and the glass last, so the dirty runoff from the gutters never lands on clean panes.
We do not quote a figure on the web because the number depends on the stories, the window count and what the gutters look like on the day. Our window cleaning services are quoted as one number, so call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the front of the house, and we will give you that number over the phone.
On the houses we see in Shelby, the outside carries most of the grime: road film, rain dust and sprinkler spots on the glass. Exterior cleaning is what removes dirt from the glass, and interior cleaning is a separate job we do not take on this visit, so the outside is where the visible change happens.
Across Michigan most of our customers book in spring and in fall, late May to June and late October to November. Text us your stories and a photo of the house, and we will tell you the next open window.
No. We clear the gutters and downspouts, flush them and let the wall stop dripping before anyone touches the glass, so the runoff has already drained away by the time we start on the windows.
Sills are wiped as part of the job, and screens are rinsed and put back in the window they came out of. Tracks are included when they are reachable from outside. None of that shows up as a separate charge on the invoice, since it is part of our washing services.
No. On this visit we do exterior glass only, and we do not do interior windows or pressure washing. If you need one of those, tell us when you book and we will say what we can do.
You do not need to be home, and that holds for condos too. 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 unlock the side gate. That is the whole list.
Stories, rough window count, a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
