Residential window cleaning
Interior and exterior glass, sills, sashes and frames on houses from cottages to oceanfront builds.
Eight services
Everything that keeps coastal glass clear.
Glass is the core of the business. The rest of this list exists because each of these jobs was making the glass dirty again.
Glass
Glass work
Commercial window cleaning
Storefront, office, restaurant and hospitality glass on a fixed route, billed monthly.
High-rise and high-access glass
Rope descent, boom lift and extended water-fed pole work on buildings above two storeys.
Screen and track cleaning
Screens removed, washed and re-seated. Sills, tracks and weep holes cleared of coastal grit.
Exterior
Around the glass
Solar panel cleaning
Deionised water, soft brush, no detergent. Documented before and after output on monitored systems.
Gutter cleaning
Hand cleared, bagged, downspouts flushed and flow tested. Pine needles included.
Pressure washing and soft wash
Low-pressure soft wash for siding and roofs, controlled pressure for hardscape.
Restoration
Restoration
Hard water and mineral stain restoration
Staged restoration for sprinkler spotting, salt etch and construction overspray on glass.
Two methods, one job
Pure water outside. Squeegee inside.
A crew that only owns one method will use it everywhere, including where it is the wrong answer. Almost every visit we run uses both: a water-fed pole for exterior elevations and reach, a mop and channel squeegee wherever the glass needs contact and control.
Water-fed pole, pure water
Deionised water on a carbon-fibre pole. No detergent, no ladder, no towel.
Mains water is passed through a sediment filter, a carbon block and either a reverse osmosis membrane or a deionising resin bed until total dissolved solids read under 10 ppm. Pure water is aggressively hungry for minerals, so it lifts salt, pollen and soil off the glass on contact, then evaporates leaving nothing behind. That is why there is no towel and no squeegee: there is nothing in the water to dry into a spot.
Used for
- Exterior glass from ground level up to about four storeys
- Salt film on oceanfront and sound-front elevations
- Frames, sills and the underside of transoms in a single pass
- Properties where ladders would sit on flower beds, decks or HVAC units
- Solar arrays, where detergent residue is actively harmful
Where it stops
- Needs the water to read under 10 ppm TDS. Above that it spots, and the operator must check
- Loses control in sustained wind over about 20 mph at full extension
- Cannot remove bonded deposit such as mortar splash, paint or stage 2 mineral etch
- Not used on interiors: too much water for a finished room
- Reach
- Practical working reach on this coast is four storeys. Poles are built longer, but coastal wind makes flex unmanageable beyond that.
- Water or solution
- Under 10 ppm total dissolved solids, measured with an in-line meter before the first pane.
Kit list
- Carbon-fibre pole, 20 to 45 ft working sections
- Dual-trim brush with rinse bar jets
- RO membrane plus DI resin polishing vessel
- In-line TDS meter, checked at the start of every job
- Van tank, typically 350 to 650 US gallons
Mop and squeegee, traditional
Applicator, channel squeegee and scrim. Contact work where contact is what is needed.
A washer sleeve carries a dilute neutral solution onto the glass and agitates the soil, then a brass or stainless channel squeegee with a fresh rubber pulls the water off in a controlled pattern. The perimeter is finished with a scrim or a lint-free cloth. This is the method that has cleaned glass for a century, and it is still the only one that applies real mechanical force with full control.
Used for
- Every interior pane, without exception
- Ground-floor exteriors where the glass needs agitation, not just rinsing
- Storefront and commercial entry glass with traffic film and handprints
- Post-construction glass with labels, stickers and light overspray
- Historic and leaded glass, where pressure and water volume must be tiny
Where it stops
- Needs a ladder or lift above ground floor, which brings its own risk and its own cost
- Leaves a detergent film if the solution is over-dosed or under-rinsed
- Slower per pane than a pole on a large open elevation
- Blade work is unsafe on tempered glass and forbidden on soft-coat low-E
- Reach
- Ground floor by hand. Second storey by ladder with a standoff. Above that, the job belongs to a pole, a lift or a rope.
- Water or solution
- Dilute neutral surfactant, roughly one ounce per two gallons. Stronger is not better, it just leaves film.
Kit list
- Brass channel, 6 to 18 inch, with fresh-cut rubber
- Microfibre or synthetic washer sleeve
- Scrim or lint-free finishing cloth
- Stainless scraper, used only on annealed glass and only when needed
- Drop cloths, sill towels and shoe covers for interior work
What sits behind the work
- General liability$2,000,000 aggregate, sample figure. Certificates naming the property owner as additional insured issued on request.
- Workers' compensationFull coverage on every technician. No subcontracted labour on residential routes.
- IWCA memberInternational Window Cleaning Association member. Safety standards and blade policy follow IWCA guidance.
- Rope descent programmeOSHA 1910.27 compliant: certified anchorages, independent lifelines, documented rescue plan per building.
- Pure water certifiedIn-line TDS meter checked before the first pane of every job. Logged per vehicle, per day.
- Storm responsePriority post-landfall salt flush for plan clients, typically within 96 hours of road access being restored.
Not sure which you need
Tell us what the glass looks like.
Send a photo taken at a low angle in daylight. Nine times out of ten that tells us whether you need a clean, a dissolver or a polish.
Insured and IWCA. Certificates issued to your property manager on request.