Yes, the same two people clean your gutters and the outside of your windows in one visit, gutters first and glass last. We price the job by the number of stories and the approximate window count, and doing both together costs less than booking two separate trips. Our crew has done this work for homeowners across New York for years, and in Guilderland most customers book it for the spring and fall.
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 the number of stories and the approximate window count, and the bundle of gutters and exterior glass in one visit costs less than booking the two jobs separately. The number we give on the phone is the number we charge, with no add-ons appearing on the invoice later.
On our jobs, a few things move the quote. A third story or a roof steep enough that the crew cannot walk it changes the setup. Window count matters, and so do oversized panes and picture windows, which take longer to reach and rinse. A heavy pollen film on the glass in spring takes longer to rinse than a light dusting. Spot work with cleaning solutions is priced by the window and quoted before the visit. Gutters that have not been opened in years, or are packed with needles and leaves, take more time to clear. Gutter guards that must be lifted and reseated add time. Hard-water spotting from sprinklers is a separate problem, because no cleaning removes it, and we say so before we quote. Downspout flushing, screen rinsing and sill wiping are part of the job and are not billed as extras.
Our crew handles residential and commercial exterior work, and the same stories-and-count method applies to both, so a window and gutter job is quoted the same way on either. Take a typical two-story house with a sprinkler line hitting the front glass and two clogged downspouts. The spotting and the flushing move the number, not the height, and the crew sends photos of each run before it leaves. Quotes cover the outside of the house only, so if you want interior and exterior glass done, that is a separate quote. Regular cleanings get the same stories-and-count quote as a first visit. To get your number, call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the front of the house with your rough story count and window count, and we will reply with a figure before anyone comes out.
| 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.
Gutters and glass both benefit from a spring visit and a fall visit, which is why one crew in one visit makes sense. Across New York, the spring visit usually falls in late May to June, and in Guilderland the fall visit tends to land in late October to November. The spring visit catches the film on south-facing glass and the sticky paste packed into the gutters, and the fall visit catches the leaf load and the wet leaf mat that sits in the runs after the trees drop.
Across New York, nor'easters can leave debris in the gutters that was not there at the last visit. Guilderland gets about 42 inches of precipitation a year, with June, July and October the wettest months, and about 56 inches of snow a year, mostly from January through April and again in November and December. Freezing is a real risk here, so a gutter still full of wet leaves in winter is a bigger problem than a dry one. Heavy tree cover over the roof, a sprinkler line hitting the glass, or a house near a busy road tends to need a third visit. The spots that come back a day after cleaning are usually from sprinklers, and they are the first thing we point out on a third-visit property. Cleaning services and window cleaners work on the same schedule in this area, so when you book one, it is worth asking about the other.
Professional window cleaning on a regular schedule keeps the glass from getting to the point where a single rinse will not lift it. Multi-story buildings and tall two-story houses reach that point sooner, because the upper panes collect more rain film and are harder to reach. The windows inside collect their own dust and are not part of this visit. For curb appeal, most homeowners notice the haze first on the glass when the sun is low, and that is the sign the windows need it. For gutters, the sign is water sheeting over the edge in a rain, which means the runs are holding debris and water is backing up. Clogged gutters are the main cause of water damage to fascia and the wall below, so a gutter that overflows after a storm is worth a call.
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 handle residential window and gutter cleaning on residential properties around Guilderland, booked on a schedule that fills in the busy windows of the year. To schedule service, start with a call or a text at (866) 435-6328 with your number of stories and a photo of the house front, and we will confirm a date and a two-hour arrival window. We call before we come, and on the day we send photos of every gutter run and every window we clean.
Nobody needs to be home for exterior work. Our crew does not come inside, and the outside of every window is cleaned, including the upper stories reached from the pole, not from a ladder leaned on the siding. Screens are rinsed, each sill is wiped, and the clean windows are checked against the photos before the crew leaves. We put the gutters first in the order of work, so the glass is cleaned last and not dirtied again.
Lead time changes with the season, so the date we can offer depends on the calendar at the time you call. If you are booking for a busy spring or fall, call early.
Yes, on our jobs it is the same two people doing both in one visit. We clean the gutters and downspouts first and the glass last, so runoff from the gutters does not land on clean windows.
We price it by stories and window count, and the number comes from those two things. Call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the front of the house, and we will give you the figure before anyone comes out.
It is, and the outside is where grime builds up here: film, rain dust and sprinkler spotting. Our window cleaning services for the outside remove dirt that sits on the glass whatever the inside looks like, and that film is what makes a window look dull from the street.
Condos and single-family homes alike book the spring and fall visits, which fit the pollen season and the leaf drop. If you want the earliest date, call before the calendar fills in those months.
No, because we do the gutters first and the glass last. When the gutters are cleared first, the leaves, grit and black water come down the wall before the windows are touched.
Screens are rinsed, sills are wiped and tracks are cleaned as part of the exterior window job, and none of it is billed separately. Our washing services cover the exterior only, so interior window cleaning and pressure washing are not part of this visit.
We clean the outside of the windows only on this visit, and we do not do interior glass or pressure washing. If you need those, we can tell you what we would need to see before scheduling.
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.
