Yes, the same two people clean your gutters and the outside of your residential windows in one visit, gutters first and glass last, and every window gets the same pass. We price it 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 of our residential and commercial customers book the two jobs together in the spring and the fall.
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 number we give you on the phone is the number we charge. We get it from how many stories the house has and roughly how many windows it carries, and the bundle of both jobs in one visit comes out lower than booking the gutters and the glass separately. Our washing services are priced from the house itself, not from square footage alone, because a wide two-story house with a few windows is not the same job as a narrow one with a lot of glass. Window cleaners who quote by the pane often leave out the gutter work, which is why we quote the whole house.
Several things move the quote on our jobs. A third story or a steep roof we cannot walk changes how the crew sets up. A lot of window count, or oversized picture windows, adds time at the glass. Gutters that have not been opened in years, or packed with needles and leaves, take longer to clear and flush. Gutter guards have to be lifted and reseated before the run can be cleaned. Hard-water spotting from a sprinkler line is a separate problem that cleaning does not remove, and we say so before we quote it. Downspout flushing, screen rinsing and sill wiping are part of the job, not billed as extras, and they do a lot for curb appeal between visits. The windows inside are a separate job and are not in this number.
On a Mechanicsville house, the window washing and the gutter work usually go together, and the clogged gutters are the part we find most often. Water damage shows up later, around the fascia and the window frames below a run that was never cleared, which is one reason we would rather clean it before it sits another season. Most of our customers here have the same two questions: how many stories and how many windows. Send a photo of the front of the house by text or call (866) 435-6328 and tell us the story count, and we come back with a number before anyone books a date. For a multi-story building the same logic applies, and the number is set from the floors and the glass.
Our professional window cleaning crew has cleaned a lot of houses with the same bundle of problems, and the figure we give you is built from what we see on the ladder. If your house has been done before by someone else, tell us what they cleaned and we will say what we would add. We do not guess at the number on the phone.
| 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 here book our cleaning services twice a year, one visit in the spring and one in the fall, which is why one crew doing both jobs in one visit makes sense. Across Virginia the spring visit usually falls in mid to late May, and the fall visit in late October to November. What we find on the glass in the spring is a pollen film on the south-facing panes and a paste of tree dust in the gutters, and by the fall it is the leaf load that has come down and gone wet. Hurricanes and tropical remnants across Virginia can move those dates a little, so we schedule around the weather rather than a fixed calendar.
Some residential properties need more than the two regular cleanings a year. A house with heavy tree cover over the roof collects needles and grit in the downspouts between visits, and those houses are usually on every three to four months. A sprinkler line that hits the glass leaves spots that come back a day after cleaning, so those windows get checked more often. A house near a busy road or a construction site picks up more grime on every window than the same house in a quiet cul-de-sac. We see these as the cases that need the extra visit, not the rule.
Clean windows should look clean in any light, and a haze you only see when the sun is low and the light comes across the glass means one needs attention. You will know the gutters need it when water sheets over the edge in a rain instead of running down the downspout. Either sign is a good reason to schedule service now instead of waiting for the next visit on the calendar. If you want to book sooner, call (866) 435-6328 and ask for the next open date.
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 window cleaning services start with a quick estimate by phone or text: the number of stories and a photo of the house front is usually enough for us to give you a number. From there we look at the calendar, and the lead time depends on the season, so ask us for the next open date when you call. The two busy stretches of the year are the spring bloom and the fall leaf drop, and our calendar fills faster in those weeks, so booking early in either one saves a wait.
Our crew works the whole of Mechanicsville, and we set up at the house the same way on every street. Nobody needs to be home for the exterior work. We call before we come, we do not come inside, and we send photos of the finished runs and glass before the truck leaves.
We handle houses and multi-story buildings alike, and we handle the gutters and downspouts and the window glass in the same pass. Our crew can remove dirt from the glass, the sills and the wall below a run, along with the grime and the runoff that comes off the gutters. Condos and multi-family buildings are on a scheduled plan rather than a one-off job, and we set that up with the property manager ahead of time.
Yes. The same two-person crew cleans the gutters and the outside of the windows in one visit, gutters first and glass last, so the glass is not dirtied by the water that comes off a run.
The number comes from the stories and the approximate window count, and we give it to you by phone or text before anyone books a date.
For most houses here, yes. The outside carries the pollen film, the rain dust and the sprinkler spots, and those do not come off with an inside cleaning. Our crew does the exterior only, so a full interior and exterior clean is booked as two separate jobs.
Most of our customers book in late spring once the bloom is done, and again in the fall after the leaves come down. Across Virginia the spring visit usually falls in mid to late May, and the fall visit in late October to November. Houses with heavy tree cover or sprinkler spotting get booked more often, so ask us for a plan when you call.
Not with our crew. We clean the gutters and flush the downspouts first, let the wall stop dripping, and only then clean the glass, so nothing runs down onto a pane we already cleaned.
No to all three on this visit. The standard job uses purified water from a pole rather than cleaning solutions, the work is exterior glass only, and pressure washing is not included.
You do not need to be home. Turn the sprinklers off the night before, move cars off the driveway, keep pets inside while the ladders are up, and leave the side gate unlocked.
Yes. We clean residential houses and commercial buildings, including multi-story buildings and condos, and the same crew sets up the same way on both, gutters first and glass last.
Stories, rough window count, a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
