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 both jobs in one visit cost less than booking them as two separate trips. Across New York, most of our customers book the work in the spring and fall, and we have been running that schedule long enough to know what the outside of a house needs at each change of season.
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 gutter and window cleaning by the number of stories and the approximate window count, and the bundle in one visit costs less than booking the two jobs separately. The number we give on the phone is the number we charge, so tell us the stories and the window count, or text a photo of the front of the house. Our crew sees a window and gutter job differently than a quote form does: a multi-story building or a house with a steep roof, a third story or a dense set of picture windows takes longer on the ladder and on the glass, and that shows up in the number. Professional window cleaning on a house like that takes more setup, and the method is the same for residential and commercial glass, though this page is about houses.
What moves the quote on our jobs is what the crew finds on the day. Stories and steep roofs change how we set up the lift. Window count and oversized panes change the time on the glass. Clogged gutters that have not been opened in years, or packed with needles and leaves, take more passes, and a run that overflows can cause water damage at the fascia. Gutter guards that have to be lifted and reseated add time, and hard-water spotting from sprinklers is a separate problem that no cleaning will remove. Gutters and downspouts, screen rinsing and sill wiping are part of the job and are not billed as extras. The cleaning solutions on the glass are included in the price. Some customers ask for interior and exterior glass in one quote, and ours covers the exterior only.
On the experience side, we keep a record of what moved each quote, and we only write about it when the job is on file. For a Tonawanda home, what changes the number is usually the same few things: the stories, the window count, and how much tree cover sits over the roof. If you want the exact figure, the fastest path is a photo of the front of the house and a count of the stories, and we will tell you what we see before we give you a number.
| 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 customers book both gutters and windows twice a year, once in the spring and once in the fall, which is why one crew in one visit makes sense for the calendar. Across New York, the spring visit usually lands in late May to June and the fall visit in late October to November. Those two visits do most of the work, and the dates can move when nor'easters roll through across New York.
What we find at each visit is consistent enough to plan around. In the spring, the pollen film sits on south-facing glass and a paste of seed and dust collects in the gutters. In the fall, the leaf load arrives all at once, and wet leaves pack the elbows and the downspouts. Tonawanda's wettest months are April, September and October, with about 40 inches of precipitation a year, and about 80 inches of snow falls in a typical year, mostly from January through April and again in November and December. Heavy tree cover over the roof usually calls for a third visit, because needles and grit keep building between cleanings. Regular cleanings on that schedule keep the buildup from getting ahead of the crew. A sprinkler line that hits the glass causes the spots that come back a day after cleaning, and runoff from a clogged run leaves streaks on the wall below. A house close to a busy road or active construction collects grime faster than one set back from the street. Those are the cases where we suggest a third visit, and we say so on the first call.
A customer with no trees over the roof usually does fine on the spring and fall pair. A customer with trees or sprinkler spotting often ends up on three or four visits a year. You will know your house needs more often when the haze on the glass shows only when the sun is low, or when water sheets over the gutter edge in a hard 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 clean houses across Tonawanda, and the work is booked the same way on every street. Our window cleaning services and our gutter work are booked as one visit, so one call covers window and gutter cleaning and the cleaning services for both. The estimate starts with a call or a text: give us the number of stories and a photo of the house front, and we tell you what the visit will include. Condos are quoted the same way, by stories and window count. Lead time depends on the season, and in the busy spring and fall windows our calendar fills first, so the sooner you call (866) 435-6328, the sooner we can schedule service.
Nobody needs to be home for the exterior work, and the crew calls before it comes. We clean windows on the outside of the house that can be reached safely, including the sill and frame, and we tell you about any window we cannot reach rather than skipping it quietly. Residential properties are our main work, and the residential window jobs follow the same order every time, so the crew is set up for the way those houses are built.
Yes. Our crew does both, and it is the same two people on the ladder and the glass. Gutters come first, then the glass, so the water from the gutters does not run back onto windows we have already cleaned.
The price comes from the stories and the approximate window count, so call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the front of the house and we will quote it from those.
Often yes, because the outside takes the tree dust, rain dust and sprinkler spots that the inside never sees. Those build up on the outside first, and cleaning the inside alone will not remove dirt from the glass that the outside carries. Clean windows look better from the street, which is a big part of curb appeal.
Across New York most customers book in the spring and in the fall, which is when the pollen and the leaves come down. Tell us the month you are thinking of and we will tell you whether our calendar has room.
No, as long as the gutters are done first. When a run is cleared, the leaves, grit and black water come down the wall, so the glass waits until every downspout is flushed and the wall has stopped dripping.
Screens are rinsed and sills are wiped as part of these washing services, and they are not billed as extras. Tracks are included when they are reachable from outside.
We do exterior glass only on this visit. We do not clean interior glass, so the windows inside stay as they are, and we do not do pressure washing either. If you need either one, tell us and we will point you to someone else.
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 leave the side gate unlocked.
Stories, rough window count, a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
