Yes, the same two people clean the gutters and the outside of the windows in one visit here. We do the gutters first and the glass last, so nothing that falls off the roof ends up on clean panes. We price the job by the number of stories and the approximate window count, and booking both together costs less than two separate trips. Across Texas, most of our customers book this work in spring and fall, and the number we quote 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 price comes from 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 on the invoice. Text a photo of the front of the house with the story count, and we will tell you where it lands before a crew is scheduled.
What the crew finds on the day moves the quote. A third story or a roof too steep to walk takes more time on the ladder and a boom or scissor lift for the upper runs. Window count matters, and so does the grime on oversized picture windows, which take longer to reach and rinse properly. Clogged gutters that have not been opened in years, packed with needles and leaves, add time before any water runs. Gutter guards that have to be lifted and reseated are part of the quote. Our crew can remove dirt and film from the glass, but hard-water spotting from sprinklers is a separate problem that cleaning does not fix, so we note it on the visit. A downspout that has been overflowing for a while can also cause water damage at the wall below it, and we flag that before we quote. Clearing gutters and downspouts, screen rinsing and sill wiping are part of the job and are not billed as extras.
On our McAllen jobs, the quotes that surprise people are the ones where the window count was guessed. For a house with a lot of glass, a window washing crew can take longer than the owner expects, and the owner has usually already set aside a number based on the front of the house alone. Counting every window on every side before you call keeps the professional window cleaning number honest. Our window cleaning services, and the washing services behind them, are scoped by the actual glass, so a regular cleanings plan is easier to price once we have seen the house once. We do not clean the glass inside the house on this visit, since interior and exterior work is a different job. If you are comparing a quote for residential window work against a bundled gutter quote, ask for both to be written with the same window count.
| 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 McAllen customers book window and gutter work twice a year, once in the spring after the pollen drops and once in the fall after the leaves come down, which is why one crew doing both in one visit makes sense on this calendar. In the spring we find pollen film on south-facing glass and a pollen paste packed into the elbows of the downspouts. In the fall it is the leaf load, and on the houses that skipped that visit the gutters carry a wet mat that sags, and the runoff goes over the edge instead of down the downspout. Wind and tropical storm seasons move both dates, so we schedule off the weather rather than the calendar.
Some houses need a third visit. Heavy tree cover over the roof means needles and grit pack the downspouts between visits, and clogged gutters overflow in the next rain. A sprinkler line that hits the glass leaves round spots that come back a day after cleaning, and a house near a busy road or a construction site picks up a film faster than the rest of the block. Water damage shows up first at the wall under a blocked run, so we look at that wall on every visit. On those houses we talk through a schedule after the first visit.
You can tell windows need cleaning when there is a haze you only notice when the sun is low, and you can tell gutters need it when water sheets over the edge in a rain. Those are the two signals we work from on our own jobs. Cleaning solutions are not the fix for either problem; the runs have to be cleared and the glass has to be rinsed with purified water. Both residential and commercial sites, including multi-story buildings, follow the same logic on a fixed plan. If you are unsure whether your house is on two visits or three, call (866) 435-6328 and we will look at the roofline with you.
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 McAllen and books by the house rather than by zone, so a slot depends on the day we are already in your part of town. To schedule service, start with a phone call or a text with the number of stories and a photo of the front of the house. From there we give you a date, and in the two busy windows of the year, when pollen and leaves are heaviest, the calendar fills and it is worth booking early. Many window cleaners do glass only, so ask whether gutters are in the quote before you book. We call before we come, and nobody needs to be home for exterior work.
We book the job as a bundle when the house has both gutters and windows that need it, since one crew in one visit is faster for you and cheaper than two, and it keeps curb appeal up on the same day. Our cleaning services are scheduled to fit the house, not a fixed route, and we do not promise same-day service unless the day is already open on the schedule. Property managers who handle condos or several residential properties can book a set of addresses at once, and we will confirm the sequence. If you have a question about an address, call (866) 435-6328 and the scheduler will tell you the next open day.
Yes. The same two people do the gutters and the exterior glass in one visit, gutters first and glass last.
The number comes from the stories and the size of the house, and we give it by phone or text. We will not guess it from the street.
On a McAllen house the outside carries the pollen film, the rain dust and any sprinkler spots, and washing the inside of the glass removes none of them.
Most of our customers here book in the spring after the pollen drop and in the fall after the leaves, so those are the windows we fill first.
No. Gutters first, glass last, so the runoff from the roof is cleared before anyone touches the panes.
Screens are rinsed and sills are wiped as part of the visit. Tracks are part of the job when we can reach them from the outside.
We clean the exterior glass only on this visit. We do not do the inside, and we do not do pressure washing here.
You do not need to be home. Turn sprinklers off the night before, move cars off the driveway, keep pets inside while ladders are up, and leave the side gate unlocked.
Stories, rough window count, a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
