Window Cleaning

• 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

• 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.

• 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

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.

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.

• 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?