Window Cleaning in Las Vegas

What window cleaning covers

• Glass washed and squeegeed on both sides, with the edges dried by hand
• Tracks vacuumed out first and then wiped, because that is where the grit sits
• Screens taken out, rinsed, dried and put back in the same opening
• Frames and sills wiped, and cobwebs cleared out of the corners
• Glass doors and the finger marks around the handles

What is usually not included

• Hard water etching, the cloudy marks left by sprinklers hitting the glass. That is a separate restoration process and it does not always come out.
• Torn screens. They are rinsed and put back, but they are not re-screened or repaired.
• Taking down blinds and curtains, or moving furniture away from the glass, which is usually left to you.

When to book window cleaning

Book this two to four times a year for a home, and more often for a storefront. Say how many floors the building has: anything above ground level changes the equipment and the price.

How long it takes

The glass itself goes quickly. Most of the time on a window job goes on the screens and the tracks. Windows that do not open from the inside, or that sit above a porch or a flowerbed, add time, because each one has to be reached from outside.

What makes the price go up

• Panes, not windows: a grid window is many small panes, each one detailed
• Second and third floor exterior glass, which brings ladders into the job
• Screens and tracks, which are often quoted apart from the glass
• Paint specks, stickers and construction dust, which have to be scraped off

What to ask before you book

• Is that price for the inside and the outside, or only the outside?
• Are the screens and the tracks in there, or is that charged on top?
• Mine have the little grids in them — do you charge me by the pane?

What window cleaning looks like in Las Vegas

Las Vegas sits in a dry Mojave valley ringed by bare mountains, laid out in walled neighborhoods where the yards are rock and the summers keep every door shut and the air conditioning running. The tap water is hard, and it shows on anything glass or chrome. And the town works around the clock, so plenty of homes run on a shift schedule instead of nine to five.

Timing matters as much as the work. With shift work built into the town, a clean often has to fit around someone who sleeps in the afternoon. Inside, the hard water is the job that never ends: glass shower doors, faucets and the sink hold white scale that comes back.