Window Cleaning

Interior and exterior glass, storefronts, entry canopies and multi-story exteriors cleaned from the ground. Streak-free, on a route that fits your tenants' hours.

What it is

We have run a dedicated window crew for years: its own vehicles, its own pole systems and ladders, its own calendar, and a crew that does nothing but glass. Window cleaning is not a task the nightly janitorial crew squeezes in with a bottle of blue spray; done that way it leaves streaks in the morning sun and misses everything above head height. Done by a glass crew, it is a route: your building on a date, inside and out, ground floor to the top, with the frames, sills and tracks done too.

Exterior glass on a low building is cleaned from the ground with poles and squeegees. Higher glass is done with a water-fed pole: purified water is fed up a long, light pole to a brush, which scrubs the glass and then rinses it with water so pure that it dries without leaving any spots behind. It reaches four or five stories from the sidewalk, with nobody on a ladder and no lift parked on your lot. Interior glass is squeegee work, room by room, around your tenants' hours.

The same crew comes back.

This page is the front door. The windows section goes into glass types, height and access, hard-water staining, why dirt appears between panes, and what a properly cleaned window actually looks like against a merely wiped one.

What's included

Exterior route

• All exterior glass: storefront, curtain wall, entry doors and sidelights, canopy glass, drive-through and service-bay windows
• Frames, mullions and sills wiped or rinsed; tracks cleared of grit and dead insects
• Water-fed pole for anything above the first story, with the water purified on the truck
• Lift or rope access quoted separately where a building needs it, with the paperwork that goes with it
• Screens removed, washed and refitted where present

Interior route

• Interior of exterior glass, partition glass, glass doors, lobby and reception glass, display cases
• Sills and ledges wiped; blinds moved and returned; furniture protected
• Scheduled around tenants: before opening, after close, or a floor at a time during the day
• High interior glass in atriums and stairwells with poles or, where needed, a lift

Specialty work

• Post-construction window cleaning: labels, silicone, mortar splash and concrete dust off new glass — see post-construction clean
• Hard-water and mineral stain removal, assessed pane by pane
• Skylights, solar panels and greenhouse glass
• Awnings, canopies and entry signage washed with the glass

How often it's really needed

What dirties glass is not time; it is exposure. A storefront on a busy road with sprinklers on the landscaping and a bus stop outside needs monthly cleaning to stay presentable. The north face of an office park with no road, no sprinklers and deep eaves might look fine twice a year. The honest interval comes from three things: traffic and road spray, water that hits the glass, and how much the glass is part of how the building sells. Pick the access type below; the exposure question is the same for each.

Retail, dealerships, restaurants, banks, clinics with street-facing glass. The glass is the sign.

Verdict: monthly exterior is the floor for a storefront. If customers can see your glass from the street, it is advertising.

Office buildings, campuses, hotels, government buildings, multi-tenant. Exterior done by pole from the ground.

Verdict: quarterly exterior, twice-yearly interior, with the entrance elevation done more often. Ask us to walk the four sides; they are not equal.

Interior partition glass, conference-room glass, lobby glass, atriums. Fingerprints and dust rather than weather.

Verdict: quarterly interior route plus nightly touch-ups is the usual right answer.

What "clean" looks like

A wiped window looks clean at night and shows every streak at 8 am when the sun comes across it. A properly cleaned window has no streaks in low sun, no drips on the sill, no film in the corners where a rag couldn't reach, and frames the same color as the day they were installed. Pole work dries spotless because the water is purified; squeegee work is clean because the blade is fresh and the technique is right. If you are not sure whether your current glass is clean or just wiped, look at it at sunrise from inside. The windows section shows you what to look for.

What to expect

• Walkthrough. We count panes and elevations, note the access, check for hard-water staining and failed seals, and look at where sprinklers and road spray hit.
• Written scope and proposal. Interior and exterior listed separately, each with its interval, plus any specialty work. A flat price per visit or per year. Multi-site programs get one schedule and one point of contact.
• The route. A date and a time window that fits your tenants; the crew arrives with everything on the truck; you get a completion note. Weather moves an exterior date, and we tell you before rather than after.
• Ongoing. The route repeats on its interval without you having to remember it. Problems — a stain that will not shift, a seal that has failed — are reported pane by pane so you can plan.

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