Yes, the same two people clean your gutters and the outside of your windows in one visit. Gutters go first and the glass goes last, so nothing runs back down onto clean panes. We price the job by the number of stories and the approximate window count, and doing both in one visit costs less than booking two separate trips. Most of our Bainbridge Island customers book it in the spring and fall, when the leaf loads are heaviest.
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 by the number of stories and the approximate window count, and the bundle done in one visit costs less than booking the two jobs separately. The number we give on the phone is the number we charge. Our crew arrives with the quote already built from those two figures, so there is no change on the day. Our washing services are quoted from those same two figures.
What moves the quote is what the crew finds when it gets to the house. A third story or a steep roof means more rigging time. Window washing on picture windows and oversized panes takes longer per pane than standard sashes, and heavy grime on any pane costs more time than a light film. Gutters that have not been opened in years, or packed with needles and leaves, need more hand clearing. Gutter guards that must be lifted and reseated add time, and hard-water spotting from sprinklers is a separate issue that no cleaning removes. Clearing the gutters and downspouts, screen rinsing and sill wiping are part of the job and are not billed as extras. Our quote covers the exterior glass, so interior and exterior work is never bundled into one figure.
Tell us the stories and a rough residential window count, and we will give you a firm number. If you send a photo of the front of the house by text, we can see the roof pitch and window layout before we arrive. For regular cleanings, we reuse the same figures at each visit, so repeat cleanings are quoted the same way. Most of our window cleaning services customers only need that one exchange to know what the job will cost, and the crew sticks to the figure we gave. Ask for the written estimate before you book so there is nothing left open.
| Gutters only | Exterior windows only | Both in one visit | |
|---|---|---|---|
| One story | from $150 | from $170 | from $275 |
| Two stories | from $225 | from $240 | from $375 |
| Three stories | from $295 | from $330 | from $495 |
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 Washington, most customers book both jobs twice a year, which is why one crew in one visit makes sense. Across Washington, the spring visit window runs mid to late June, and storm season brings atmospheric rivers and Pacific fronts. On our Bainbridge Island jobs the pattern follows the calendar: late spring after the pollen drops, and the fall visit that usually lands in November to early December, after the leaves are down. Pollen film settles on south-facing glass and forms a paste in the gutters through the season. Wet leaves left in the gutters turn into clogged gutters within weeks of the first heavy rain, and the leaf load arrives in the autumn months. Leaf debris affects residential and commercial buildings alike, which is why the order of work matters on both.
Storm and wind seasons move those dates a little, and the film and leaf load are the two things we check first on each visit. Heavy tree cover over the roof, a sprinkler line hitting the glass, or a house near a busy road tends to need a third visit. Multi-story buildings need more rigging than a single-level home, and that is one more reason we price by story. Sprinkler spots are the ones that come back a day after cleaning, which tells us the water is leaving mineral deposits rather than dirt. Bainbridge Island gets about 45.2 inches of precipitation a year, and January, November and December are the wettest months, so a blocked run can turn into water damage fast. Freeze risk is part of the picture here too, so clear gutters matter before a cold snap. We rinse with purified water and no cleaning solutions, so nothing is left on the glass to streak.
You will know the windows need it when you see a haze that only shows up when the sun is low. You will know the gutters need it when water sheets over the edge in the rain instead of running into the downspout. Runoff from a blocked run is usually the first sign, and on the visit we remove dirt from the glass and the frames. Dirt on the windows inside the house is not part of this visit, which covers exterior glass. Both signs are worth acting on before the next season loads them up again.
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 cleans gutters and windows across Bainbridge Island, and we work with a small set of professional window cleaning customers who want the outside glass and the gutters handled together. Plenty of window cleaners only do the glass, but we clear the gutters on the same visit, and that does more for curb appeal than either job alone. We do residential properties and condos on the same terms, quoted from stories and window count. Booking is simple: call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the front of the house, and we confirm the number of stories and window count before we set a date. Lead time depends on the season, and we will tell you the first open slot when you call.
The two busy windows of the year are the spring and fall visits, and our calendar fills fastest then. Booking early in those months gets you a slot without a wait. Nobody needs to be home for the exterior work, and we phone before we arrive so you know the crew is on the way. Every window and every gutter run gets the same attention, from the top floor down. Schedule service through the phone or a text and we will hold the date.
Yes. The same two people do both jobs in one visit, gutters first and glass last. That order keeps the runoff from the gutters off the windows we have just cleaned.
The number comes from stories and window count, and we give it by phone or text before any work is scheduled. Condos and standalone houses are priced the same way, from stories and the residential window count. It is not a figure we publish here, because a house with heavy tree cover and one without can differ a great deal. Call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the front of the house to get yours.
On our Bainbridge Island jobs the outside carries the film, the rain dust and the sprinkler spots, and those build up even when the inside stays clean. Most residential properties on the island collect the same film on their outside glass. Exterior glass is where most of the grime sits on a house like this.
Our customers here book in late spring and in the fall, after the leaves are down. Book early in those months, because the calendar fills first.
Not when we do it the right way. Gutters first, glass last. Runoff from a flushed downspout is what we wait out before the glass, and when the wall has a few minutes to stop dripping, the glass comes last and stays clean.
Screens are rinsed, sills are wiped and tracks are cleaned as part of the job. The gutters and downspouts are cleared on the same visit, and the flushing is part of the price. You do not see any of it as a line item on the invoice.
We clean exterior glass only on this visit, and we do not do interior window cleaning or pressure washing on this visit. We remove dirt from the outside glass, frames and screens, and that is the whole visit. If you want the inside done, ask us about it separately.
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.
