Window Cleaning
Most window cleaning around here isn't really a dirt problem. It's a water problem. Central Kentucky sits on limestone, and that mineral load comes right through your sprinklers and your hose. When that water dries on glass it leaves a white haze that a squeegee and soap won't touch. People scrub harder, get nowhere, and figure the glass is just old.
It usually isn't. Those spots are mineral deposits bonded to the surface. We treat them with an acid-based cleaner made for glass, let it work, then rinse and detail the pane. Once the minerals release, the glass goes back to clear.
A standard cleaning is the outside of the glass. If you want the glass behind a screen done, we take the screen off, clean the glass and put the screen back where it came from. We clean the glass, not the screens.
We don't pressure wash windows. High pressure drives water past the seal and into the frame, and on an older double pane that means fog between the glass that never comes out. We work by hand on anything we can reach and use a water fed pole on the upper floors.
What it costs comes down to how many windows you have and how high they are. The quote form on this site gives you the number in about a minute. Most customers have us out once or twice a year. Spring after the pollen settles is the popular one.
Our water in Central Kentucky comes off limestone, and it dries with a white mineral spot on glass. That is why windows washed with a garden hose look worse a day later. We finish glass with purified water, so it dries clear with nothing left behind. Windows with years of baked-on hard water spots get treated with the right chemistry instead of scrubbing the glass raw.
