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 the approximate window count, and doing both in one visit costs less than booking two separate trips. Across Pennsylvania, most of our customers book it for the spring and fall, and we bring the same crew each time so the house is handled the same way twice a year.
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. Our rates are not built from a single per-foot figure; we look at the house before we quote professional window cleaning and gutter work on it. If you have already had a quote from window washing companies, compare the total for both jobs against it, not the per-window price.
What moves the quote is what the crew finds on the day. Multi-story buildings take more setup, since a third story or a roof steep enough to need the boom or scissor lift changes the job. A high window count, or oversized panes that take more time to reach, adds to the job. Clogged gutters take longer to clear and flush, and a run packed with needles and leaves is the usual cause. Gutter guards that have to be lifted and reseated are part of the time on the roof. Standing water in a run can lead to water damage at the fascia, and the crew flags that on the visit. Hard-water spotting from sprinklers is a separate condition, and no cleaning removes it, so we tell you about it before the visit. Downspout flushing, screen rinsing and sill wiping are part of the job and are not billed as extras. Work on the windows inside the house is not in this price. Clean gutters and glass do a lot for curb appeal, and doing both in one visit costs less than two trips.
On a recent Chestnuthill job the quote came in higher than the customer expected because of tree cover and the window count on the back of the house. What drove it was the number of stories and the gutters that had sat full through the summer, and the crew laid that out before starting. To get your exact number, text us a photo of the front of the house with a count of the stories and a rough count of windows, and we will call back with a figure. A photo from the street is enough.
| 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 Chestnuthill jobs, most customers book cleaning services 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. Residential window work runs on that same calendar. In the spring we find pollen film on the south-facing glass and tree sap packed into the gutters, and the leaf load shows up in the fall. Storm and wind seasons can move those dates a few weeks in either direction, so we keep the booking flexible and schedule service around the weather.
Some houses need a third visit. Heavy tree cover over the roof means needles and grit pack the downspouts faster, and we see those houses come back sooner. A sprinkler line that hits the glass leaves spots that return a day after cleaning. A house near a busy road or a construction site collects dust on the sill and on every window, and that gets back to the glass quickly. After a few weeks of dry weather, the haze shows up on those houses sooner than on the rest, and that is the first sign we look for.
One customer on the same schedule with no trees has the spring and fall visit, and that is enough. Another, under trees with a sprinkler line on the front windows, is on three or four visits a year. Residential properties vary a lot, so after the first visit we tell you which schedule your lot actually needs. Clean windows keep their look for a while, and you will know it is time for another visit when the haze shows up only when the sun is low. You will know gutters need it when water sheets over the edge in 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.
Our crew works across Chestnuthill, and the estimate is the first step. Our window cleaning services start with a call to (866) 435-6328 or a text with the number of stories and a photo of the house front. Our usual lead time is a short wait, and we tell you the first open slot when you call. The busy stretches are spring and fall, when the leaves come down, and our calendar fills then, so booking early in those months gets you a date that suits you. We call before we come.
Nobody needs to be home for exterior work. The crew stays outside, and the only thing we ask is that you turn off the sprinklers the night before. Our washing services cover the gutters and glass together. We handle gutters and downspouts from the ladder and the boom or scissor lift, then move to the glass, so the runoff from the roof does not reach clean windows. Our work covers residential properties and condos, and the outside of every window we can reach from the ground or from the lift. For houses with heavy grime on the sills, runoff from a backed-up gutter can carry dirt down the wall, so we clear the gutters first and the crew takes the time to remove dirt from the frame before it starts on the glass.
Yes. The same two people clean the gutters and the outside of the windows in one visit. We do the gutters first and the glass last, so the dirty runoff from the roof does not land on clean windows.
The number comes from the stories and the size of the house. Text us a photo of the front of the house and a count of the stories, or call (866) 435-6328, and we will give you the exact figure before we book.
Yes. The outside picks up tree dust, rain dust and sprinkler spots, and they build up between visits. The interior and exterior glass pick up dirt differently, so an indoor cleaning does not take the outside spots off, and that is the part this visit covers.
Most of our Chestnuthill customers book regular cleanings in the spring and in the fall, which is when the pollen and the leaves come down. Across Pennsylvania the spring visit runs late May to June and the fall visit runs October to early November, so plan around those windows.
No, as long as the gutters are done first. When a run is cleared, the leaves and the black water come down the wall, so the crew clears the roof, clears the gutters, flushes every downspout, and only then touches the glass. Picture windows under a run get the same order, since the water reaches them first.
Screens are rinsed and sills are wiped as part of the job, and they are not billed as extras. The glass is rinsed with purified water rather than cleaning solutions, so there is no soap film left to wipe off. Tracks are included in the visit when they are reachable from the outside.
We do not clean the inside of the glass or do pressure washing on this visit. The work is exterior glass only, and we say so up front. If the building is a mixed residential and commercial property, mention it when you call, and we will tell you whether the crew can take it.
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. The crew sends photos of every run to your phone before leaving.
Stories, rough window count, a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
