The same two people clean the gutters and the outside of the windows in one visit here, gutters first, 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 Texas, most of the homes we work on book it in the spring and the fall, and that rhythm is how we plan our calendar.
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 our cleaning services 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, for both the washing services and the gutter work. What moves it is what the crew finds on the day: a third story or a roof too steep to walk the edge of, window counts that include oversized panes, gutters that have not been opened in years and hold packed leaves, grime that has built up on the frames, 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, not billed as extras.
Across Texas, the single biggest surprise on a quote is the gutters we have not been able to open for a long time. Once the crew is on the ladder, the window washing takes a predictable amount of time, but the gutters and downspouts can hold far more than a homeowner expects, and that is where the time goes. Water that sits in a clogged run spills as runoff down the wall, so the crew clears the gutter first and only then goes to work to remove dirt from the glass. Our rule is simple: the crew photographs what it finds before it clears anything, so our window cleaning services are never a surprise to you. Ask for a written estimate and the photos will come with it.
To get the exact number, send us the stories, a rough window count, and a photo of the front of the house by text. For a Lancaster home we can often quote the same day from those three things, and the crew confirms it on arrival if every window or run looks different from the photo. Nothing in the price changes once we start, and nothing is added after the crew has left the clean windows behind. Call (866) 435-6328 or text the photo, and we will tell you what the house is worth to us in the visit.
| 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.
Across Texas, the spring visit runs late March to April, and most customers book both jobs around it, once in the spring and once in the fall, so one crew doing the gutters and the glass in one visit makes sense on a regular calendar. In Lancaster, the fall visit runs late November to December, and those are the windows when the two-person crew is out most. The reason is what we find at each visit: pollen film on south-facing picture windows and pollen paste packed into the gutters, the leaf load from the trees that drops in the fall, and the Gulf hurricanes and tropical storms that move the schedule across Texas when they arrive. Lancaster averages 41 inches of rain a year, and May, June and October are the wettest months, so the gutters carry the most water then.
Some houses need a third visit, and we tell you which ones. Heavy tree cover over the roof puts needles and grit into the downspouts between visits, so those homes book regular cleanings on a set cycle rather than two visits per year, with the cleanings timed around the leaf drop. A sprinkler line that hits the glass leaves round spots that come back a day after cleaning, so those houses need the mineral treatment scheduled rather than a plain cleaning. A house near a busy road or a construction site collects a film of dust that a single visit does not clear, and the crew uses cleaning solutions on the frames only where a rinse will not remove dirt. On a typical Lancaster job we see the difference between a home that needs two visits and one that needs four in the first walk-around.
The sign that windows need cleaning is haze that you only notice when the sun is low in the sky. The sign that gutters need it is water sheeting over the edge in a hard rain instead of running into the downspout. If either one shows up between visits, text a photo of the roofline to (866) 435-6328 and we will tell you whether it is a cleaning problem or something a cleaning will not fix. You can call the same number to schedule service.
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.
To schedule service, we book most Lancaster jobs by phone or text, and the estimate for our window cleaning services starts with the number of stories and a photo of the house front. We call before we come, and the crew confirms the arrival window the day before. Nobody needs to be home for exterior work, since the crew does not come inside. Lead time is set by the calendar at the time you call, and the busy windows are the spring and fall stretches, when the pollen and the leaves arrive and our calendar fills first. Book early in those months if a specific date matters to you.
Our crews are set up for residential window cleaning and gutter cleaning on residential properties, and the same two-person approach carries over to townhomes and condos. We work with the professional window cleaning standard on the glass and the gutter standard on the runs, so the curb appeal of the house is handled in one visit. The steps are the same for residential and commercial jobs, whether the house is small or one of the larger multi-story buildings in town.
Once we have the house in the schedule, the neighborhoods we have cleaned in Lancaster are the ones the crew can reach from the route, and the crew will tell you on the phone if your street is one of them. If we are not the right fit for a particular job, we say so on the call instead of after the truck is on the street, and we will suggest what to watch for, including clogged gutters or water damage that a cleaning will not resolve.
Yes, on our jobs it is the same two-person crew doing both, gutters first and glass last. We do the roof blow-off, clear the gutters, flush every downspout, and only then touch the windows, so nothing washes back onto the clean windows.
The number comes from the stories and the size of the house, and we give it by phone or text. Send the stories, a rough window count and a photo of the front, and we will quote the job from those.
Yes, because the outside carries the pollen film, the rain dust and the sprinkler spots that show through clean inside glass. In Lancaster the outside collects more in the spring and fall, so a clean outside is what you see most of the year.
Our Lancaster customers usually book in the late March to April spring window and the late November to December fall window. Book early in those months, since the calendar fills first.
No, because we clear the gutters before we touch the glass, and the wall gets a few minutes to stop dripping. Gutters first, glass last is the reason the windows stay clean after the crew leaves.
Screens are rinsed and sills are wiped as part of the job, and every window gets the same treatment, so none of it is billed as an extra. Tracks are handled on the visit where they can be reached, and we note any that need more time before we start.
No, this visit covers exterior glass only, so windows inside stay as they are, and we do not pressure wash on it. If you want interior and exterior glass done, tell us on the call so we can plan the visit around both.
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 unlock the side gate.
Stories, rough window count, a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
