Yes, the same two people clean your gutters and the outside of your windows in one visit, gutters first and glass last. Plenty of window cleaners quote the glass alone, but our crew clears the gutters and downspouts before touching a pane, and both jobs booked together cost less than two separate trips. Most of our Oak Ridge customers book it in the spring and again in the fall, when the leaves and grit build up. Call (866) 435-6328 and we give you a number before we book, based on the number of stories and the approximate window count.
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 the number of stories and the approximate window count, and we give you that number over the phone or by text before anyone climbs a ladder. The number we quote is the number on the invoice. Our visits cover the exterior only, so a quote never bundles the interior and exterior glass into one number. Doing the window and gutter work in one visit costs less than booking it as two jobs, because the crew sets up once and works both from the same position. If the building is not a house, ask us by phone whether we quote residential and commercial jobs of that size.
On our jobs the things that move a quote are a third story or a roof too steep to walk, a walk-out basement that puts the back run far up the wall, gutters that nobody has opened in years and are packed with seeds and leaf mat, large picture windows that need a second ladder position, gutter guards that have to be lifted and reseated, and hard-water spotting from sprinklers that no cleaning removes. Downspout flushing, screen rinsing and sill wiping are part of the job and are not billed as extras. The glass is done with purified water instead of cleaning solutions, so the crew can remove dirt without leaving residue to chase. Houses that get regular cleanings have less buildup to lift than one that has gone years without.
Oak Ridge houses also get a lot of pollen in the spring, and gutters packed with that paste take longer to clear than loose debris. Our crew handles it in the same visit. Our crew works from a window cleaning list with the same checks on every house, so nothing gets skipped on a job that looks simple from the driveway.
One recent job here is a good example. The owners had both the gutters and the glass done in one visit after a long stretch of fall leaves and a sprinkler line hitting the front windows. What moved the quote was the story count and the fact that the front run needed a full flush before the glass could be started. Ask us for your own number by phone or text with a photo of the front of the house, and we will tell you what we see before we book.
| 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 Oak Ridge customers book both jobs twice a year, which is why one crew doing both in one visit makes sense for this city. Many homeowners book cleaning services once a year and then wonder why the glass looks dull by fall. Across Tennessee, the spring visit lands in mid to late May, and the fall visit usually comes in November to early December, after the leaves are down.
At the spring visit we usually find a pollen film on the south-facing glass and grit packed into the downspout elbows. At the fall visit it is wet leaf mat in clogged gutters and grit left on the sills. Oak Ridge gets 59.7 inches of precipitation a year, and its wettest months are February, July and December, so a clogged run in those months is how water damage starts. Across Tennessee, spring storms bring supercells, hail and tornadoes, and a bad storm can move both dates, so we book from what we see on the house rather than from a fixed calendar.
Some houses need a third visit. Heavy tree cover over the roof, a sprinkler line hitting the glass (the spots that come back a day later are mineral and need a separate treatment), and a house near a busy road or construction all tend to put a home on a shorter schedule. Multi-story buildings with a lot of glass tend to go on a shorter schedule too. Those are the houses where professional window cleaning goes on every few months rather than twice a year.
You will know the windows need it when you see a haze that only shows up when the sun is low, and that haze is what drags down curb appeal from the street. The windows inside can look clean while the outside still carries grime from the road. You will know the gutters need it when water sheets over the edge in the rain instead of running into the downspouts. That runoff soaks the wall below and splashes the lower panes.
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 do window and gutter cleaning for residential window customers across the Oak Ridge area, including the residential properties on the older streets near the center of town and the newer subdivisions on the outskirts. Our window cleaning services and washing services are booked as one visit, so the same crew handles the gutters and the glass. Condos get the same phone quote, based on the number of stories and the reachable windows. Booking starts with a phone call or a text with the number of stories and a photo of the house front. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for exterior work.
Lead time depends on the calendar that week, so we tell you the first open date when we quote. The two busy windows are late spring and early fall, when the leaves are at their worst and our calendar fills fastest. To schedule service in one of those windows, call (866) 435-6328 as early as you can, though we can still clean windows for you later in the season.
Once you book, we confirm the date, the arrival window and the number we quoted, so there are no surprises when the crew shows up to clean every window and wipe every sill on the same visit.
Yes, it is the same crew. Our window cleaning services on the outside of the glass and the gutter work are done by the same people in the same visit, so there is one setup and one invoice.
Our washing services in Oak Ridge are priced from the story count and the size of the house. We give you that number by phone or text before we book, so you know what it will be.
If the windows inside are already clean, the outside is usually the part that needs work. It carries the rain dust, the sprinkler spots and the grime, and none of that comes off when you wash from inside.
Most of our Oak Ridge customers book in the late spring and the early fall. Those are the months when the leaves and grit build up enough to matter, so that is when the calls come in.
Gutters first, glass last. When we clear a run, the grit and runoff come down the wall and across any window below it, so the glass gets done after the gutters are finished and flushed. That order is how we remove dirt from the glass once instead of twice.
Screens, sills and tracks are part of the job. We rinse the screens, wipe the sills and clean the tracks as part of the visit, and none of that is billed as an extra. If you own one of the condos in a shared building, ask us by phone which windows we can reach from the ladder.
This visit covers the exterior only, not the interior and exterior together. We do not do pressure washing either, so the crew stays on the outside of the house.
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. That is the whole list.
Stories, rough window count, a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
