Yes, the same two people clean your gutters and the outside of your windows in one visit. Gutters go first and glass goes last, so nothing dirty runs onto clean panes. We price the job by the number of stories and the approximate window count, and both jobs done together cost less than booking them as two separate trips.
Across Virginia, most of our customers book this in the spring and again in the fall, and we keep the same crew on the house from start to finish.
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 the job from the number of stories and the approximate window count, and the window washing and gutter work done in one visit costs less than two separate washing services booked on different days. The number we give you on the phone is the number on the invoice. Call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the front of the house, and we will give you a written estimate before anyone is booked.
What moves the quote is what the crew finds on the day. A third story or a steep roof means a boom or scissor lift and more time on the ladder. Window count matters, and so do oversized picture windows, which take longer to reach and rinse. Each residential window gets the same rinse from the pole, so a house with a long row of them takes more time. Clogged gutters, the ones nobody has opened in years or packed with needles and leaves, need more hours before the first downspout runs clear. Heavy grime on the sills adds time too. Gutter guards have to be lifted and reseated before the run can be cleaned, and hard-water spotting from a sprinkler line is a separate treatment that no cleaning removes.
Downspout flushing, screen rinsing and sill wiping are part of the job and are not billed as extras. Gutters and downspouts are cleared on every visit, and our regular cleanings are scheduled around what the house needs, so the number you pay for a visit matches what we did on it. This quote covers exterior glass only, so an interior and exterior window job is priced on a separate call. Cleaning windows inside is not part of this price.
On our Fairfax Station jobs the quote moves most when a house has many windows and a full set of gutters that have gone a long time without service. Before we give a number we ask how many stories, how many windows, and whether any of the gutters are under a heavy tree cover. A photo of the front of the house by text lets us see the roofline and the glass without a visit, and most of the time that is enough to quote it accurately.
| 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 Fairfax Station customers book both jobs twice a year, once in spring and once in fall, which is why one crew in one visit makes sense for the calendar. Across Virginia, the spring visit lands in mid to late May, and on our Fairfax Station jobs the fall visit falls in late October to November.
In spring we find pollen on south-facing glass and a pollen paste in the gutters, which is why the spring visit is the one that matters for the window and gutter cleaning on the sunny side of the house. We rinse pollen off with purified water instead of harsh cleaning solutions, so nothing is left on the frame. In fall the leaf load comes down the roof and packs the downspouts, and any storm or hard wind that season moves the dates a little either way. Left alone, clogged gutters can send water down the wall, and that is how water damage starts at the foundation.
Some houses need a third visit. Heavy tree cover over the roof sends needles and grit into the gutters between cleanings, and a sprinkler line that hits the glass leaves spots that come back a day after we clean them. A house close to a busy road or active construction collects more dust on the frames, so it gets scheduled more often. Multi-story buildings with heavy tree cover tend to need that third visit sooner than single-story homes, because the upper gutters are the hardest to see from the ground.
The sign windows need cleaning is a haze you only notice when the sun is low in the afternoon. The sign gutters need cleaning is water sheeting over the edge in a rain instead of running down the downspout. This page is about homes only, so a residential and commercial contract is quoted on a separate 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 has cleaned gutters and windows across Fairfax Station, and our cleaning services cover the whole city rather than a single block. Our window cleaning services start with a quick estimate by phone or text: tell us the number of stories and send a photo of the house front. Lead time varies with the season, and the two busy windows of the year, late spring and fall, fill the calendar fastest.
When the calendar is full we tell you the next open date rather than squeeze you in and rush the job. We call before we come, so you know the crew is on the way, and nobody needs to be home for exterior work. Every window gets the same care, and a clean run of glass keeps the curb appeal of the house up between visits.
Our window cleaners work from a water-fed pole for most of the glass, and boom or scissor lifts are used where the upper windows cannot be reached safely. Professional window cleaning on a house with a lot of glass means we look at the whole job before we schedule it. To schedule service, call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the front of the house, and we will confirm a date.
Yes, on our jobs the same two people clean the gutters and downspouts and the outside of the windows in one visit. We do the gutters first and the glass last, so the work stays in order from start to finish.
We do not quote a price from the house type alone. The number comes from the stories and the window count, and we give it by phone or text before the visit. Call (866) 435-6328 and we will send a written estimate.
Here the outside carries most of the dirt: pollen in spring, rain dust, and sprinkler spotting that builds on the glass. Cleaning the outside helps remove dirt that would otherwise build up between visits, and this holds for most residential properties.
Most of our Fairfax Station customers book in the spring visit and the fall visit, which we schedule in the mid to late spring window and the late fall window. Text a photo of the front of the house and we will tell you the next open date.
No, because we clean the gutters first and the glass last. The runoff from the roof comes down the wall before anyone touches the panes, so the clean glass stays clean.
Screens are rinsed, sills are wiped, and frames are done as part of the job, and none of it is billed as an extra. Grime on the sills comes off in the same pass. Tracks are cleaned on the exterior side when they can be reached from the outside of the house.
No, this visit is exterior only. We do not clean the inside of the windows and we do not do pressure washing, so if you need either of those, we will tell you on the phone and point you to someone else.
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 unlock the side gate. Condos work the same way when the gutters and glass can be reached from outside. The crew brings its own water and power.
Stories, rough window count, a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
