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 an approximate window count, and both jobs done together cost less than booking them as two separate trips. Our crew works on Hastings houses every spring and fall, and it is the same crew that does the ladder work and the glass. Call (866) 435-6328 or text us your stories and about how many windows you have, and we will give you the number.
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 by stories and by a rough count of every window on the outside, and the bundle in one visit costs less than two separate jobs. The number we give you on the phone is the number on the invoice, and that holds for both jobs together. Downspout flushing, screen rinsing and sill wiping are part of the job and are not billed as extras. The price covers the outside only, so windows inside the house are not part of it.
What moves a quote on our jobs is what the crew finds on the day. A third story or a steep roof means more time on the ladder and a boom or scissor lift for the upper runs. Residential window count matters, and so do oversized panes and picture windows that take more care to clear without streaks. Gutters that have not been opened in years, packed with needles and leaves, take longer to clear, and sometimes the debris has broken down into a wet mat that needs to come out by hand. Gutter guards have to be lifted and reseated before we can reach the run underneath. Hard-water spotting from sprinklers is a separate matter: the glass has to be cleaned, and the spots that are etched into the glass will stay until they are treated.
On a Hastings house, the most useful thing you can send us is a photo of the front of the house by text, along with your stories and a rough window count. With those three things we can tell you the number before the crew comes out. A recent job on one of our Hastings houses had a two-story front with a lot of glass and gutters that had not been cleaned in a while. The quote moved because of the window count and the packed downspouts, and once the crew had flushed the elbows clear, the water ran freely. Curb appeal on a house with clean windows and clear gutters is noticeably better, and most of the clogged gutters we see end up causing water damage on the fascia and the soffit within a season or two, which is why we would rather clear them on the regular visit than wait.
Our crew handles the window washing services and the gutters on the same ladder setup, so you are not paying for a second visit. The professional window cleaning we do is exterior only, with purified water on the glass, and the work is the same on a two-story house as on a three-story house. Window cleaners who work on multi-story buildings bring the same approach to a house with a lot of glass, and that is what we bring to yours.
| 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 Hastings customers book both cleaning services twice a year, once in spring and once in fall, which is why one crew in one visit makes sense for the calendar. Across Minnesota, the spring visit falls in mid to late June, after the seed drop has settled, and the fall visit is late October to November, after the leaves are down and before the first hard freeze. On a Hastings house, the pollen film on south-facing glass and the pollen paste in the gutters are the first things we see in spring, and the leaf load is the main thing in fall. Storms and straight-line winds across Minnesota move the dates, so we call before we come.
Some houses need regular cleanings more often than twice a year. Heavy tree cover over the roof means needles and grit pack the downspouts between visits, and those customers are on every three to four months. A sprinkler line that hits the glass leaves spots that come back a day after cleaning, and those houses need a closer look. A house near a busy road or near construction takes more dust on the glass, and that shows up on the frames and sills first.
We do not give instructions for doing this yourself. What we can tell you is the sign that windows need cleaning sooner than planned: a haze you only notice when the sun is low, or a film that catches the light on the glass. The sign that gutters need attention is water sheeting over the edge in a rain. That usually means the run is blocked, and it is worth a visit before the next freeze.
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 have worked across Hastings, and the crew sees the same thing on most of the streets: a mix of older houses with long runs of gutter and newer ones with less glass. Booking starts with a call to (866) 435-6328 or a text with your stories and a photo of the front of the house, and we will give you the number before a slot is held. Lead time depends on the season, and the calendar fills fastest in the two busy windows of the year, when the spring seed drop and the fall leaf drop bring the most requests. If you call in those windows, ask us to schedule service for the first open slot, and we will tell you the date when we call back.
Nobody needs to be home for the exterior work. The crew does not come inside, and we call before we come so you know when to expect them. The gutters and downspouts are cleared, the runoff is flushed through to the ground, and anything that has built up at the roofline is removed, not just moved. We carry out the debris, and we remove dirt from the glass so nothing is left on the walk or the driveway. Residential properties, condos and apartments get the same care on the same visit, with the work scheduled around the building's access. Our crew works on residential and commercial buildings, and the ladder setup is the same for both.
Yes. At TrueEdge the same two-person crew handles gutter cleaning and window cleaning services on the outside of the house in one visit, gutters first and glass last. That order keeps the dirty runoff off clean glass.
We give the number from your stories and approximate window count, by phone or text. A photo of the front of the house helps us quote it accurately, and the number we give is the number on the invoice.
Yes, because the outside carries the film from the air, the rain dust and the sprinkler spots, and none of those come off with an inside cleaning. Most homes need interior and exterior glass handled separately, and we do the exterior. On our Hastings jobs the outside is where most of the grime sits.
Across Minnesota the spring visit falls in mid to late June, and most of our Hastings customers book the fall visit in late October or November. Those are the two windows when the crew sees the spring film and leaf load most clearly.
Not if the order is right. Gutters first and glass last means the runoff from the roof and the gutters has already gone by the time the glass is done.
Screens are rinsed and put back in the window they came out of, and sills are wiped as part of the visit. Tracks are included in the same pass.
We do exterior glass only on this visit. We use purified water and no cleaning solutions on the glass, and we do not clean inside the windows or do pressure washing.
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 unlock the side gate.
Stories, rough window count, a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
