The same two people clean your gutters and the outside of your windows in one visit, gutters first and glass last, so nothing that falls from the gutters lands on clean glass. We price it by the number of stories and the approximate window count, and doing both jobs together costs less than booking two separate trips. Across South Carolina, most of our customers book spring and fall. Call (866) 435-6328 for a number based on your stories and window count, and the number we give on the phone is the number we charge.
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 fastest answer to what a window and gutter visit costs is the number of stories and an approximate window count. Give us those by phone or text, plus a photo of the front of the house, and we give you one number. The bundle, gutters and exterior windows in one visit, is cheaper than booking the two jobs separately, and the number we quote is the number on the invoice.
Price moves on the day for a few reasons we see often. A third story or a steep roof changes how the crew works the run. Window count matters more when the panes are oversized, and a house with large picture windows takes longer on every side. Gutters nobody has opened in a long time come down packed with needles, pollen and leaves, and gutter guards have to be lifted and reseated before anything underneath can be cleaned. Hard-water spotting left by sprinklers is a separate issue that cleaning will not remove, and it takes its own cleaning solutions, quoted after the crew sees it. Downspout flushing, screen rinsing and sill wiping are part of the job and are not billed as extras. Our quote covers the exterior only, so interior and exterior work are two separate jobs with separate numbers.
On our Five Forks jobs, one house with a steep second-story roof and a row of picture windows along the back took longer than the front-only estimate suggested, because the back run sat behind a deck and the glass needed two passes from the boom or scissor lift. Once the crew saw the full house, the quote was reworked on the spot, and the customer had the number before work started. That is the process we follow on every job: the phone estimate is built from stories, windows and a photo, and anything the crew finds that changes the number gets flagged before it is done. Residential and commercial properties follow the same rule for professional window cleaning, with the same two crew members on the ladder.
| 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 Five Forks customers book both jobs twice a year, once in spring and once in fall, which is why one crew doing both in one visit makes sense. Across South Carolina, the spring visit lands in mid to late April, after the spring tree dust has settled, and the fall visit runs from November to early December, after the leaves are down and before the first hard freeze. If you are comparing window cleaners or cleaning services in Five Forks, check those two windows first, since the calendar fills fastest then.
At the spring visit we find a pollen film on south-facing glass and seed fluff packed into the gutters and downspout elbows. At the fall visit the wet leaf mat is the main thing in the runs. Storm and wind seasons from hurricanes and tropical remnants across South Carolina can move both dates and leave debris in the gutters that was not there at the last visit. Clogged gutters after a storm send runoff down the siding toward the sill, which is the path to water damage on a house that looks fine from the street.
Some houses need more cleanings than the usual two. We see that most often with heavy tree cover over the roof, where needles and grit keep packing the downspouts between visits; with a sprinkler line hitting the glass, where the spots come back a day after cleaning; and with multi-story buildings near a busy road or construction, where dust settles on the glass faster. For a customer with no trees and no sprinkler spotting, two regular cleanings a year are usually enough. For a customer under trees or with sprinkler spotting, we see them every three to four months, because the job is not done once the glass is clear.
Two signs tell you the windows need cleaning sooner than planned: a haze you only notice when the sun is low, which pulls down curb appeal, and water sheeting over the edge of the gutter in a rain. Either one 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.
Our crew handles window and gutter cleaning across Five Forks and the surrounding area, and we work from a single estimate per house. Booking starts with a call or text: call (866) 435-6328 or text the number of stories with a photo of the house front, and we give you a number and a date. The lead time we quote is the one on our booking calendar at the time of the call.
The two busy windows of the year are the spring and fall visits, when the calendar fills fastest. Book early for those months. Nobody needs to be home for exterior work, and we call before we come, so you know the crew is on the way. Our residential properties and our clean windows work fit into the same schedule, and a residential window gets the same visit as the rest of the house, so we schedule service for every window on the house in one visit, sill included.
Yes. Our window cleaning services and gutter work are done by the same two people in one visit, with gutters first and glass last. That order is what keeps the clean glass clean.
We give you that number by phone or text, built from the number of stories, the approximate window count and a photo of the house. We do not quote a figure without those, and the number we give is the number on the invoice.
It is, because the outside carries the tree-dust film, rain dust and sprinkler spots that build up between visits. Those are the things that make the glass look dirty from the street. Cleaning the outside is how you remove dirt and grime that the rain only spreads around, since both sit on the outside of the pane.
Across South Carolina, the spring visit lands in mid to late April, and the fall visit runs from November to early December. Most of our Five Forks customers book in those months, and condos and single-family homes book on the same calendar, so book early.
Not if the order is right. Gutters first, glass last: the roof gets cleared, the gutters and downspouts get flushed, the wall gets a few minutes to stop dripping, and only then does anyone touch the glass.
Our washing services include screens, sills and tracks, which are part of the job and are not billed as extras. We rinse the screens, wipe the sills and clean the tracks as part of the visit.
Exterior only on this visit: windows inside the house are not part of it, and neither is pressure washing. The work is the outside glass and the gutters.
No, 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 leave the side gate unlocked. That is the whole list.
Stories, rough window count, a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
