How much does professional window cleaning cost per window?

How much does professional window cleaning cost per window?

Professional window cleaning costs about $10 per standard sliding double-pane window, according to HomeAdvisor's 2026 national cost guide. Its typical range for a visit is $150 to $302, with an average of about $221. Single panes in the same guide run from $4 to $15 depending on the size and type of glass. These are national averages, and a local quote reflects the window count, the window types and the add-ons a house needs.

Macomb Power Washing Solutions has no published starting price for windows, because the count and mix of window types vary so much from one house to the next. Each home gets its own window cleaning price instead, and the service area covers Macomb and Oakland County plus Grosse Pointe and Harper Woods.

Do companies price by window, by pane or by house?

Window cleaning companies price by the window, by the pane or by the house, and the model changes how a quote reads. Per-window pricing counts each opening once, which suits houses with mostly standard sliders and double-hungs. Per-pane pricing counts each piece of glass, which fits casements, picture windows, storm windows and doors. A whole-house price rolls everything into one total after a walkthrough or a count from photos.

Some jobs are billed by the hour instead. HomeAdvisor notes that windows on a third or fourth story can need special equipment, and that pros charge about $45 to $75 per hour in those cases. Any of these models can be fair. What matters is that the quote shows its count, so you can check it against your own walk around the house.

Counting your own windows before you call takes about ten minutes and makes any quote easier to check. Walk around the outside of the house and write down each opening by type: sliders and double-hungs, casements, picture windows, sliding doors and skylights. Mark which ones have storm windows, which have screens, and which sit on the second story or above a porch roof. Note any panes with white spotting near a sprinkler. With that list in hand, any of the three pricing models can be checked against your own count, and a missing basement window or patio door shows up before the visit rather than on the invoice.

What do screens, tracks and sills add?

Screens, tracks and sills add a small amount per window to a cleaning price. HomeAdvisor lists screen cleaning at about $5 per screen, solar screens at about $10, and tracks and sills at about $1 per window. On a 20-window house, screens add about $100 and tracks and sills about $20.

Screens near Lake St. Clair and under cottonwood trees earn that line item. Fish flies, the local name around Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie for the mayflies that emerge from the lake in early summer, settle on screens along the lakeshore in towns such as St. Clair Shores and New Baltimore. Our guide to removing fish flies and spider webs from siding covers the residue they leave on the house itself. Cottonwood fluff drifts through in the same early-summer stretch, catches in screen mesh and stays there until the screen is washed. Cleaning the glass without the screens leaves that film in front of the clean pane.

Why do storm windows and divided panes cost more?

Storm windows and divided panes cost more because they add glass surfaces and hand detail to every opening. A storm window is a second sash mounted outside the main window, so a full cleaning covers the outside of the storm, the inside of the storm and the face of the window behind it. HomeAdvisor prices storm windows at about $7 per pane, the same as casements.

Storm windows are often found on older homes that kept their original wood sashes, and the gap between the storm and the main window collects dust and insects that neither face shows from outside. Divided-light windows, where muntins split a sash into small panes, take longer because each small pane is wiped and detailed by hand. A house with 12 two-pane storm windows has 24 storm panes, about $168 at $7 a pane, before the main windows are counted.

Other glass carries its own rate. HomeAdvisor lists a standard picture window at about $5 per pane, a large single-pane picture window or a skylight at about $12, a sliding glass door at about $7 and a tri-fold bay window at about $28.

What does hard-water spot removal cost?

Hard-water spot removal costs about $15 per pane nationally, according to HomeAdvisor, which lists it as calcium and lime deposit removal. Hard-water spots are mineral deposits left behind when sprinkler or well water dries on glass, and they do not come off with an ordinary window wash.

Hard-water removal is usually needed on a few panes, not a whole house. In Macomb and Oakland County subdivisions a common source is a lawn sprinkler that reaches the same windows on every cycle. Six affected panes would add about $90 at the national rate. Spots that have been left for years can etch the glass, and our guide on hard-water etching explains when removal is still possible.

What does each window cleaning item cost?

Each window cleaning item has its own national average price, and adding them up is the quickest way to estimate a house before a quote arrives. The figures below are national averages from HomeAdvisor's 2026 guide.

A worked example shows how the lines add up. A two-story house with 20 standard windows comes to about $200 at the base rate, about $300 with the inside-and-out add-on, and about $420 with screens, tracks and sills added. That is well above the national average visit of about $221, so a house with fewer windows, or a visit without the add-ons, lands closer to the average.

How does cleaning frequency change the price?

Cleaning frequency changes the price mainly by controlling how much buildup each visit has to remove. HomeAdvisor recommends cleaning windows twice a year. In Michigan a practical pair of visits is one after the spring pollen and early-summer cottonwood, and one in fall before storm windows are closed for winter. Our guide on how often windows should be cleaned covers the schedule itself.

Waiting longer between visits moves some costs from the basic line to the add-on lines. Sprinkler spotting left for a full season can turn a normal pane into a hard-water removal pane at about $15 each, and screens packed with two seasons of debris take longer to clean. At the national average, two visits a year come to about $442. Ask whether a company offers a different rate for a recurring schedule, and get the answer in writing.

What should a window cleaning quote list?

A window cleaning quote should list the count of windows and panes by type, along with each add-on, so you can check it against the house. A single total with no count leaves you unable to tell whether the storm windows, the basement windows or the second-story glass were included.

• Count by type: standard windows, casements, picture windows, storm windows, doors and skylights.
• Sides: outside only, or inside and out.
• Screens, tracks and sills: included or priced per window.
• Hard-water removal: which panes, and at what price per pane.
• Height: how second- and third-story glass is reached and whether it changes the price.
• Trip charges: whether any travel fee sits outside the total.

Each of these shows up as a separate line on a Macomb Power Washing Solutions quote. Windows can share a visit with house washing, which starts from $349, and on a shared visit the glass makes sense to clean after the siding rinse rather than before it.