Yes, the same two people clean your gutters and the outside of your windows in one visit, gutters first and glass last. We price this residential window and gutter work by the number of stories and the approximate window count, and doing both in one visit costs less than booking two separate trips. Across Virginia, most homeowners book this in the spring and the fall. Call (866) 435-6328 to book, and our Fair Oaks crew works the same way on every house.
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 quote window washing and gutter work from three numbers: how many stories the house has, roughly how many windows face the outside, and what the gutters look like when we open them. Give us those by phone or text and the number we quote is the number we charge. Doing the gutters and downspouts and the glass in one visit is cheaper than booking them separately, and we will tell you the difference on the call.
On our jobs, the things that move the figure are the same ones we see every day. A third story or a roof too steep to walk takes more time on the ladder. Oversized panes and picture windows take more care to clean evenly. Gutters that have not been opened in years come out heavier than anyone expects, with seeds, grit, leaves and years of grime packed to the elbow. Gutter guards have to be lifted and reseated before we can reach the run, and hard-water spotting from sprinklers is something no cleaning removes, so we say so before we start. Downspout flushing, screen rinsing and sill wiping are part of the job and are not billed as extras.
Our crew does not quote by the hour, and the same rule covers all of our washing services and cleaning services. We walk the property, count the stories and windows, look at the gutter run, and give one number. If something we did not see on the call turns up on the roof, we photograph it, show you, and ask before doing anything else.
When a Fair Oaks customer asks why the number came in where it did, we point to what we found. One recent job on a two-story house had a long back run that had not been cleaned in several years, with the downspouts packed and the glass below them dulled by runoff. The quote went up for the gutter work, not the windows, and the customer chose to book both through one of our window cleaning services rather than split them. Every job is different, so ask us for the number that fits your house.
The crew treats the glass as part of the same work, not an add-on. Water from a packed gutter runs down the wall and leaves a film on the panes beneath, and remove dirt from the frame and sill before the glass is what keeps the result clean. Condos and townhomes with shared walls get the same treatment, with access arranged in advance so every window on the building gets done in one pass.
| 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 customers schedule two cleanings a year, and doing both jobs in one visit makes sense for the calendar. Across Virginia, the spring visit tends to fall in mid to late May, and our Fair Oaks customers usually take the fall visit in late October or November, after the last leaves drop and before the first hard freeze.
What we find at each visit tells us how the year went. In late spring, the pollen film sits on south-facing glass and the pollen paste packs the gutters, so we mix our cleaning solutions for that load, and most of our Fair Oaks customers on that visit are clearing exactly that. In the fall, the leaf load is the job, a wet mat that holds water against the fascia. Storm and wind seasons move the dates a little, and we would rather schedule around a late storm than clean a run that is about to fill again.
Some houses need a third visit, and grit settles the same way on residential and commercial glass. We see it most with heavy tree cover over the roof, where needles and grit keep packing the downspouts between visits. We see it with a sprinkler line that hits the glass, because those spots come back a day after cleaning and need a treatment we plan for. And we see it on a house near a busy road or a construction site, where grit settles on the glass faster than the calendar allows. For those homes, a window and gutter schedule of three or four visits a year is what keeps the work on top.
A window needs cleaning when you only notice the haze in low sun, when the light comes through at an angle and shows a film on the glass, both interior and exterior, that you did not see before. Gutters need it when water sheets over the edge in a steady rain instead of running into the downspout. Either sign means it is time to call, and most of our customers find that regular cleanings prevent both.
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 Fair Oaks and the surrounding areas, and we have cleaned homes throughout the city. Booking starts with a quick estimate by phone or text at (866) 435-6328: tell us the number of stories and send a photo of the front of the house, and we will confirm the visit and give you the number. Lead time depends on the season and is set when we book, so ask for the first open date when you call to schedule service.
The busy windows are the two seasons when pollen and leaves are heaviest. In those weeks our calendar fills, so the sooner you call, the sooner your slot comes up. Outside those weeks we usually have room, and a customer who books early in the quiet months often gets the date they want. Clean glass and clear gutters do a lot for curb appeal, which is reason enough to book early.
We call before we come, so you know the crew is on the way. Nobody needs to be home for exterior work, and the crew does not come inside. If any of the windows you want cleaned face a sunroom, tell us on the call so we can plan the access. Windows inside the house are not part of this visit. Neighborhood condos and townhomes get the same notice, with building access handled before the day.
Gutters that have never been cleared can hold water and push it under the shingles, which is how clogged gutters turn into water damage on the fascia and soffit. Multi-story buildings bring the same problem higher up, and we plan the ladder and lift around that. Our crew is set up for professional window cleaning from the first call, and the work is done once we leave.
Yes. The same two people clean the gutters and the outside of the windows in one visit, and they do it gutters first, glass last. That order is what keeps the glass from being dirtied again after it is clean.
We quote it by phone or text from the number of stories and the approximate window count, and the number we give is the number we charge. Send us a photo of the front of the house and we will give you the figure.
Yes, because the outside carries the pollen film, rain dust and sprinkler spots that build up between visits. Those do not come off with an inside cleaning, and they are most of what dulls the glass here, so the outside is where clean windows start.
Most residential properties we clean in Fair Oaks book in late spring and again in the fall, after the leaves drop. Ask us to schedule service early in those windows, because the calendar fills first.
Not when the gutters are done first. The leaves and black water come down the wall as we clear them, so the glass is the last thing we touch and nothing dirty runs back across it.
Screens are rinsed, sills are wiped and tracks are cleaned as part of the exterior work, and they are not billed as extras. Ask us on the call if you want anything else looked at while we are there.
Not on this visit. We clean the exterior glass only, and we do not do interior windows or pressure washing as part of this service.
No, you do not need to be home. Turn off the sprinklers 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.
Stories, rough window count, a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
