Yes, the same two people clean the gutters and the outside of every residential window in one visit, gutters first and glass last. We price it by the number of stories, and both jobs done together cost less than booking two separate trips. Our crew does this work across Minnesota every spring and fall, and most of the houses we visit in Hugo book both at the same time. Call (866) 435-6328 with your stories and a rough window count and we will give you the number we charge.
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 approximate window count, and the bundle done in one visit costs less than two separate jobs. The number we give you on the phone is the number on the invoice. Houses and multi-story buildings are priced the same way, by stories and window count. A quote for the interior and exterior glass is a different job, and ours covers the exterior only. What drives the quote is what the crew finds on the day: a third story or a steep roof, large picture windows that take longer per pane, gutters that have not been opened in years and are packed with needles and leaves, gutter guards that have to be lifted and reseated before anything can be flushed, and hard-water spotting from sprinklers that cleaning alone will not remove. Downspout flushing, screen rinsing and sill wiping are part of the job and are not billed as extras.
Window washing is one of our washing services, and on our jobs it runs from a simple front-of-house pass to a full exterior sweep. The difference is usually the number of stories and how much grime has built up since the last cleaning. Houses that have had regular cleanings every season come in on the low end, while a house that has gone a few years without one needs a longer first visit. Our window cleaning services are easier to schedule and price when you send us a photo of the front of the house and a count of the stories by text.
For a quote that is accurate to the job, send a photo of the house front and tell us how many stories it has. We will confirm the window count by text and tell you what time the crew can come.
| 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 Hugo customers book both jobs twice a year, once in the spring and once in the fall, which is why one crew in one visit makes sense for them. In spring we find pollen film on the south-facing glass and a paste of pollen and seed in the gutter elbows, and the fall visit clears the leaf load that comes off the roof after the first hard frost. Storm and wind seasons can move those dates, so we confirm the day with you a week out.
On a house with heavy tree cover over the roof, we see the grime and needles build up faster, and those customers are often on a three or four month schedule. A sprinkler line that hits the glass leaves the round spots that come back a day after cleaning, and a house near a busy road or a construction site collects more dust on the sills, so part of the job is to remove dirt from those sills before the glass is done. Those houses usually need a third visit in the middle of the season.
The sign that windows need cleaning sooner is a haze you only notice when the sun is low in the sky. The sign that clogged gutters need it is water sheeting over the edge during rain instead of running into the downspout. Keeping up with cleaning solutions for both gutters and windows on the same schedule keeps water damage off the siding, protects curb appeal, and makes the glass easier to maintain between visits.
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 has cleaned houses across the Hugo area, and we can usually give you a slot without a long wait outside the two busy windows of the year. Booking starts with an estimate by phone at (866) 435-6328 or by text, using the number of stories and a photo of the house front. When the calendar fills in the spring and fall windows, we tell you the first open date and hold it while you decide.
We are one of the cleaning services that handles gutters and downspouts and the exterior glass in a single visit, so you do not have to coordinate two companies on the same house. Our crew is set up as professional window cleaning with purified water and a pole system for residential and commercial glass alike, which means the glass is done from the ground or from a boom or scissor lift where that is safer. Every window on the outside of the house is covered, and we call before we come so nobody is surprised by the truck in the driveway.
Nobody needs to be home for exterior work, and we will not come inside. Once the job is booked, we send a confirmation with the arrival window and a note of anything we need from you. That keeps the schedule clear for both of us and makes it easy to schedule service again next season.
Yes. Our own crew does both on the same visit, so you deal with one company and one bill. Gutters are done first and the glass last, so nothing dirty runs down onto clean windows.
We give a number by phone or text based on the stories and the size of the house. The number we quote is the number on the invoice, and there is no range to guess at from our side.
Usually yes, because the outside takes the pollen, rain dust and sprinkler spotting that you cannot see from the inside. On Hugo houses, condos and other residential properties, the outside is where the grime builds up most between cleanings.
Most of our customers here book in the spring and in the fall. Those are the windows when pollen and leaves come off the trees, and booking early keeps your slot open.
No. We clear the gutters and flush the downspouts first, let the runoff stop dripping down the wall, and only then clean the glass. Doing it the other way round means someone has to wash the windows a second time.
Screens are rinsed, sills are wiped, and tracks are part of the window job, so they are not billed as extras. We tell you on the estimate if anything on the house needs more time.
Exterior glass only on this visit. We do not clean windows inside the house and we do not do pressure washing, so the quote covers the outside of the house.
You do not need to be home. Turn the sprinklers off the night before, move cars off the driveway if 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.
