Yes, the same two people clean the gutters and the outside of the 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 Ohio, most of the homes we clean are booked for the spring and fall visits, and our crew has been running that same order of work on every one of them.
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 in one visit costs less than booking the two jobs separately. The number we give on the phone is the number we charge. Cleaning gutters and downspouts, rinsing screens and wiping sills are part of the job, and none of it is billed as an extra.
What moves the quote is what the crew finds on the day: a third story or a roof steep enough that we work from a boom or scissor lift, a window count with oversized panes, clogged gutters that have not been cleaned in years and are packed with needles and leaves, gutter guards that must be lifted and reseated, and hard-water spotting from sprinklers that cleaning alone will not remove. Each of these adds time, so we name them on the phone before we come.
Here is how a Dayton job usually gets scoped. Ask for a written estimate and send a photo of the front of the house by text, and tell us the stories and the rough window count. We will tell you what the gutter run looks like and where the glass is hard to reach, and whether one visit covers both. Many window cleaning services quote only the glass number and stop; we also look at the gutter because the same ladder position serves both.
On our jobs, the homes with the most glass, including the picture windows on the back of the house, are the ones where the bundle saves the most time. Regular cleanings keep the bill smaller than one big catch-up job after a season of neglect. Our cleaning solutions are purified water on the glass, with no detergent film left to attract dust.
Our Dayton customers are mostly residential and some commercial, and the number comes from the same questions for residential and commercial jobs alike. Call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the house front, and we will give you the exact number before the crew is booked.
| 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 customers in Dayton book both 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 Ohio, the spring and fall visits follow the same order: the pollen film on the south-facing glass and the pollen paste in the gutters come first in the late May to June visit, and the wet leaf load comes first in the late October to November visit.
At the spring visit we find the film on the glass and the sticky paste packed in the downspout elbows. In the fall the leaf mat is the problem, and on houses that skipped that visit we have seen gutter runs sag under the first ice of winter, and the water damage runs down the wall below. Storm and wind seasons, including the severe thunderstorms and derechos that move across Ohio, can shift the dates, so we confirm the slot on the phone before we book it.
Some houses need a third visit. Heavy tree cover over the roof keeps needles and grit moving into the downspouts between visits. A sprinkler line that hits the glass leaves the round white spots that come back a day after cleaning, and those need a mineral treatment rather than another wash. A house near a busy road or a construction site picks up a film of grime faster than a quiet street does.
We can tell you whether your house is on one of these schedules after the first visit. If professional window cleaning has already been done on your house this year, it is worth asking what the crew did about the gutters at the same time, because the order matters.
The sign the windows need cleaning is haze you only see when the sun is low in the afternoon. The sign the gutters need it is water sheeting over the edge in a rain, instead of running out the downspout. Both matter for curb appeal, since haze and overflow are the first things a neighbor notices.
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 run window and gutter cleaning on residential properties across Dayton, from single-story houses to multi-story buildings and condos. We clean every window on the outside of the house in the same visit as the gutter run, including each residential window on the upper stories. Booking starts with an estimate by phone or text, using the number of stories and a photo of the house front. Lead time varies with the season, and we give the date when we give the number.
The two busy windows of the year are the late spring and the late fall, the same months the leaves come down. Our calendar fills in those weeks, so if you want a fixed slot, call early in the month rather than the week the leaves start to fall. Outside those windows, a slot is usually easier to schedule.
Nobody needs to be home for exterior work. We call before we come, and we do not come inside. Once you have the date, schedule service by phone or text and we will confirm the arrival window the day before.
Yes. The same two people clean the gutters and the outside of the windows in one visit, gutters first and glass last, and our cleaning services and washing services are booked as that one job. We do the gutter run before the glass so the runoff does not land on clean panes.
The number comes from the stories and the size of the house. Call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the front of the house, and we will quote it before the crew is booked.
On the outside of a Dayton house the glass carries rain dust, sprinkler spots and grime that the inside never sees. Cleaning the outside alone is enough to remove dirt from the part of the house that weathers, and interior and exterior work are separate jobs we do not combine on this visit.
Most of our customers here book for late May or June and again in late October or November. Those are the windows when the leaves and grit come down, so booking ahead of them keeps the slot.
Not on our jobs. We clear the gutters and flush every downspout first, let the wall stop dripping, and only then start on the glass, so the runoff has nowhere to land on clean windows.
Screens are rinsed and sills are wiped as part of the visit. Tracks are included when they are reachable from the outside. Nothing of that kind is billed as an extra.
No. This visit is exterior glass only. We do not clean windows inside the house, and we do not do pressure washing on the same visit.
You do not need to be home. Turn the sprinklers off the night before, move cars off the driveway, 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.
