The same two people clean the gutters and the outside of your windows in one visit, gutters first and glass last. We price it by the number of stories, and both jobs in one visit cost less than booking them as two separate trips. Across New Jersey, most of the homes we work on are cleaned in the spring and fall, when the leaves and winter grit have built up. Tell us your stories and roughly how many windows you have, and call (866) 435-6328 to get the number before we arrive.
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 window cleaning services are priced by the number of stories and the approximate window count, and the bundle of window washing plus gutters and downspouts, done in one visit, costs less than booking them separately. The number we give you on the phone is the number on the invoice.
What moves the quote is what the crew finds on the day. A third story or a steep roof takes longer to reach safely, and washing services on a house like that cost more for the time on the ladder. Oversized picture windows and a high count of small panes add time at the glass. Gutters that have not been cleaned in years, packed with grit and wet leaves, need more passes before the runoff runs clear. Grime baked onto a pane takes extra passes to remove dirt that a single wipe leaves behind, and we tell you the added cost before the crew starts. Gutter guards that have to be lifted and reseated are timed separately. Hard-water spotting from a sprinkler line sits in the glass and no cleaning removes it, so we flag it before we start. Downspout flushing, screen rinsing and sill wiping are part of the job and are not billed as extras.
On a two-story house where the back run has gone several seasons unopened, most of the time goes to the downspouts, which need flushing from the top, and the glass goes quickly once the gutters are done. To get an exact number for your own house, send us the stories and a rough window count, or text a photo of the front of the house, and we will tell you what we see. If your home is one of the condos sharing a roofline, say so when you book, because the shared run changes the count. A quote from a photo is a starting point; the crew confirms it when they arrive.
| 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 Little Ferry customers book regular cleanings twice a year, in late spring and again in the fall, which is why one crew in one visit makes sense for the calendar. Across New Jersey the pattern holds, but the timing shifts with the weather. Our schedule covers the exterior only, so interior and exterior work are booked separately. This page covers houses only, so for any residential and commercial booking question, call (866) 435-6328.
In spring we find a pollen film on south-facing glass and pollen paste packed into the gutters. Purified water takes most of that off, and cleaning solutions go on only where a film will not rinse. In the fall the leaf load is the main job, and the wet mat in the gutters is what we clear first. Storm and wind seasons can move both dates by a few weeks, so we set the visit by what the house shows, not only by the calendar.
Some houses need a third visit. Heavy tree cover over the roof keeps the downspouts loaded between cleanings, and a sprinkler line that hits the glass leaves spots that come back a day later. A house near a busy road or a construction site picks up a film that a twice-yearly schedule does not keep up with, and picture windows show it first. A house with few or no trees is usually fine with one visit a year in late fall.
Two signs tell you the window and gutter cleaning is due. The first is a haze you only see when the sun is low. The second is water sheeting over the gutter edge in a rain, which means the gutter is full and not clearing.
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 cleaning services on the blocks of Little Ferry that we work regularly, and our crew knows the houses on them well. Booking starts with an estimate by phone at (866) 435-6328 or by text: give us the number of stories and send a photo of the house front, and we can often give you a date within the lead time we quote on the call. The two busy windows of the year are the spring season and the fall leaf drop, and our calendar fills during both, so booking early in those months gets you a slot sooner.
Our window cleaners work from a water-fed pole for most of the glass, with a boom or scissor lift where the house needs one. On multi-story buildings we plan the lift position before the day starts. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for exterior work, since the crew does not come inside.
Clogged gutters that are left through a season can lead to water damage at the fascia and the wall below, which is one reason we keep the schedule regular for homes with heavy tree cover. Clean glass and clear gutters do a lot for curb appeal, and that is often the reason a visit gets booked. Our professional window cleaning is done exterior only on this visit, and windows inside are a separate booking, which we say when you book so the scope is clear from the start.
Yes. The same two people clean the gutters and the outside of the windows in one visit, and they work gutters first and glass last. That order keeps the runoff from the gutters off the glass we have just finished.
The number comes from the stories and the size of the house, and we count every window before we give it by phone or text. We do not quote a figure on this page because two houses of the same height can need very different work.
For most houses here, yes. The outside carries the tree dust, the road film and the sprinkler spots, and those sit on the glass whether or not the inside is clean. Clean windows on the outside are what keep the view clear.
Most of our Little Ferry customers book in late spring and again in the fall. Booking before the spring tree bloom or the leaf drop keeps the calendar open for you, so call to schedule service early.
Not on our jobs. We clear the gutters and flush every downspout first, then give the wall a few minutes to stop dripping before anyone touches the glass. The glass is always the last thing we do.
Screens are rinsed and sills are wiped on residential properties as part of the visit, and they are not billed as extras. Tracks that need deeper work are called out before we start.
Not on this visit. We clean the exterior glass only, and we do not do pressure washing on this page's service. If you want the inside done, tell us when you book and we will schedule it separately.
No, you do not need to be home. Turn the sprinklers off the night before, move cars off the driveway if the windows face it, and keep pets inside while the ladders are up. Leave the side gate unlocked, and that is the whole list.
Stories, rough window count, a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
