The same two people clean your gutters and the outside of your windows in one visit, gutters first and glass last, so the glass does not get washed twice. We price the job by the number of stories and the rough window count, and having both done together costs less than booking two separate trips. Our Oregon City customers most often book it in the spring and fall, when dust and leaves are heaviest on the house.
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.
The price comes from your stories and your approximate window count, and the number we give you on the phone is the number on the invoice. Bundling the gutters and the exterior glass into one visit costs less than booking the two jobs separately, and the exact saving is shown when you request an estimate. Pollen film on the glass and pollen paste in the gutters are the usual reasons a clean takes longer than expected, so we look at both before quoting. The crew uses purified water on the glass and mild cleaning solutions only where a spot needs one, on residential and commercial buildings alike.
On the day, the crew finds what sets the number. Stories and a steep roof change how the crew works the ladder. Oversized panes, picture windows and multi-story buildings take more time per pane than a standard window. Gutters that have not been cleaned in years, or that are packed with needles and leaves, need more passes before the water runs clear. Gutter guards that must be lifted and reseated add time, and hard-water spotting from sprinklers is not something a cleaning removes, which we point out when we see it. Downspout flushing, screen rinsing and sill wiping are part of the job and are not billed as extras. Only the exterior is on this quote, since we do not clean interior glass, so the interior and exterior question never changes the number.
Our Oregon City experience is what tells us where the number goes. On a typical house the quote moves on the window count and on the tree cover over the back run, and the gutters often hold more grime than the front of the house suggests. The crew writes down what it finds, and you get the photos before the truck leaves. Your own quote follows the same method: send a photo of the front of the house by text, tell us the number of stories, and we will tell you what we expect to find. Our regular cleanings on the same schedule keep the count steady from one visit to the next.
| 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.
On our Oregon City jobs, most customers book cleaning services for both gutters and windows twice a year, once in the spring and once in the fall, so one crew handles both in a single visit. Plenty of owners call window cleaners for the glass alone and leave the runs for later, which is how the gutters end up full by winter. Across Oregon the spring visit falls in mid to late June and the fall visit in late November to December, after most of the leaves drop.
At each visit the pattern is consistent. In spring we find a yellow dust film on the south-facing glass and a sticky paste in the gutter elbows. In fall the work is the wet leaf mat that sits in the runs and the grit that the winter rain carries onto the sills. The wettest months of the year here are January, November and December. Clogged gutters hold water against the roof edge through those months, and the runs that skipped the fall visit are the ones we see sagging under the winter load.
Some houses need a third visit. Heavy tree cover over the roof keeps the downspouts packing between visits, so those homes need professional window cleaning more often than most. A sprinkler line that hits the glass leaves spots that come back a day after cleaning, and a house close to a busy road or active construction collects dust faster than the rest. Those are the cases where a third cleaning earns its place.
Two signs tell you the schedule is due. Windows need it when you see a haze that only shows when the sun is low in the sky. Gutters need it when water sheets over the edge in a rain instead of running down the downspout. Either one is reason enough to call, and we will tell you on the first visit how often your lot needs the work. Clean glass also does more for curb appeal than most owners expect, and the windows inside the house stay out of these visits, so the haze you see is on the outside glass. An overflowing run that sends water down the fascia is a route to water damage, so it gets booked sooner than a cosmetic haze.
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 cleans gutters and exterior glass across Oregon City, and the estimate starts with a phone call or a text. Send the number of stories and a photo of the house front, and we give you a window and gutter cleaning slot once we have the count. The lead time is shown when you book, and we confirm the date with a call before we come. Call (866) 435-6328 to book, and nobody needs to be home for exterior work.
The calendar fills in the two busy windows of the year, when dust peaks in spring and leaves drop in fall. Booking early in those months keeps your preferred date. Outside those windows we can usually fit a standard two-story house into the next available slot. We clean residential properties and commercial buildings, and every window on the house is checked from the outside. A residential window we cannot reach safely gets photographed and flagged to you rather than guessed at.
When you schedule service, tell us about any sill that stays dirty, any screen that needs rinsing, or any window you cannot reach from the ground. On every visit we clean windows down to the frame and wipe each sill we can reach, and we photograph anything that needs a different approach.
Yes. The same crew handles gutters and downspouts and the window cleaning services in one visit, gutters first and glass last, so the glass is not washed twice.
The number comes from the stories and the size of the house, and condos are quoted the same way. We give it by phone or text before any work starts.
On our Oregon City jobs the outside carries the rain dust and sprinkler spots, so the outside is where most of the grime sits, and wiping the frames is how we remove dirt the glass would keep.
Our customers here book in the spring and fall, the two windows when dust and leaves are heaviest. Across Oregon the spring visit falls in mid to late June and the fall visit in late November to December. Call (866) 435-6328 to get on the calendar.
No. Gutters and downspouts get cleared and flushed first, the wall gets a few minutes to dry, and only then do we clean the glass, so the runoff never reaches it.
Screens are rinsed and sills are wiped as part of the visit. Tracks are included when we can reach them safely. Our washing services cover the glass, the frames and the screens.
Our window cleaning services cover exterior glass only, and we do not do interior glass or pressure washing.
Nobody has to stay home for the outside work, and the crew does not come inside. Just let us know about any locked gate or pet that needs to stay indoors, and turn the sprinklers off the night before.
Stories, rough window count, a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
