The same two people clean the gutters and the outside of your windows in one visit, gutters first and glass last, so nothing runs down onto 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. On our Baraboo jobs most customers book the work for spring and fall, which is when the dust and the leaves build up. Call (866) 435-6328 to book both in one visit.
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, the bundle in one visit costs less than booking the two jobs separately, and the number we give on the phone is the number we charge. Our crew sets the figure from the house itself, so ask for it by phone or text with a photo of the front of the house.
What moves the quote is what the crew finds on the day. A third story or a steep roof takes longer to reach from the ladder. Oversized panes and a high window count add time. Gutters that have not been cleaned in years, or packed with needles and leaves, need more passes before the water runs clear. Gutter guards that must be lifted and reseated are part of the labor. Hard-water spotting from sprinklers is a separate issue, and cleaning solutions alone will not remove it, so the crew will tell you about it before the visit. Downspout flushing, screen rinsing and sill wiping are part of the job and are not billed as extras.
Our Baraboo jobs show how the factors add up. Each residential window job is different, and the photo and the stories tell us most of what we need to quote it. Send us the front of the house and the number of floors, and we will give you the exact figure. Some window washing services charge by the hour, but we quote the whole job up front so you know the total before the crew starts. The price is for the exterior only, and we do not bundle interior and exterior glass into one figure. If you want the outside of the glass and the gutter run cleared in one pass, call or text us with those two details.
Gutter cleaning brings the most water runoff onto the glass if it is done in the wrong order, so we do the gutters first. Clearing the gutters first means the grime and the leaves do not drop onto the window panes afterward. The crew uses a blower and a flush to clear the gutters and downspouts, and it takes care to remove dirt from the sill and frame before it rinses the glass. Our window cleaning services follow the same order on every house, so every window gets rinsed after the gutters are done.
| 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.
On our Baraboo jobs most customers book both twice a year, once in the spring after the pollen season, which across Wisconsin runs late May to June, and once in the fall after the leaves drop, which runs October to early November. That is why one crew in one visit makes sense for most homes.
Each visit finds something different. In the spring a yellow film settles on south-facing glass, and picture windows show it first. It also forms a paste in the gutters. In the fall the leaf load is the main problem, and wet leaves pack the downspouts until the water backs up. Storm and wind seasons can move the dates, so we book around the weather rather than the calendar.
Some houses need a third visit. Heavy tree cover over the roof keeps the gutters full between cleanings. A sprinkler line that hits the glass leaves spots that come back a day later, and those need attention on a separate pass. A house near a busy road or a construction site collects more grime than the rest of the street. We will tell you on the first visit which of these your house has.
You can tell when the windows need cleaning by the haze you only notice when the sun is low, and it shows the same way on residential and commercial buildings. You can tell the gutters need cleaning when water sheets over the edge in the rain. Those two signs are reliable, and they are usually all you need to decide on the next visit.
Regular cleanings keep the job small and the bill low. Cleanings done on schedule take less time on each visit than the same house left for a full year.
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 Baraboo and books gutter and window cleaning on the same calendar for every neighborhood. We clean residential properties and condos on that calendar, and the gutters-first order applies to residential and commercial buildings alike. To schedule service, call (866) 435-6328 or text a photo of the house front, and we give a firm estimate after we see the number of stories. The lead time is set by our calendar, and that calendar fills in the two busy windows of the year, late spring and late fall, so book early if you want a particular week.
Nobody needs to be home for exterior work. The crew does not come inside, and it calls before it comes. We bring our own equipment, so you do not need to set anything up. Our window cleaners work from the ground and from the lift, and they handle upper floors without leaning ladders against the siding.
We provide professional window cleaning and gutter service for homes that have accumulated curb appeal problems, and we also clear clogged gutters that can lead to water damage at the foundation. Multi-story buildings take longer, so we schedule them with the time the job needs. If you have a question about your house, ask the crew by phone and they will tell you what to expect.
Yes. The same two people clean the gutters and the outside of the windows in one visit. We do the gutters first and the glass last, so the grime from the gutters does not land on the panes we just washed.
The number comes from the stories and the size of the house, and we give it by phone or text. Send a photo of the front of the house and we will quote the whole job before the crew arrives.
On our Baraboo jobs the outside carries most of the grime, from pollen in the spring, rain dust and sprinkler spots. Clean windows on the outside make the whole house look better even when the inside glass is fine.
Across Wisconsin, spring visits run late May to June and fall visits run October to early November, and those are the stretches when the calendar fills quickly.
Not on our jobs. Gutters first, glass last, so the water and debris from the gutters are cleared before anyone touches the windows.
Screens, sills and tracks are part of the job on every residential window we clean. We rinse the screens, wipe the sill and clean the frame around every window, and none of it is billed as an extra.
We do not clean windows inside the house on this visit, and we do not do pressure washing. Our crew cleans the exterior glass and the gutters only, so interior and exterior glass never appear on the same quote.
No, you do not need to be home. Turn off the sprinklers, move cars off the driveway, keep pets inside while the ladders are up, and leave the side gate unlocked. That is the whole list.
Stories, rough window count, a photo of the front by text. That is a real number, not an appointment.
