Window Cleaning in Everett, WA

What is actually included

The scope is the part worth reading carefully, because it varies enormously between companies.

Glass, both sides

Interior and exterior unless you only want the outside done. Most of the visible improvement on a shaded elevation is the exterior; most of the improvement on a south-facing room is the interior.

Screens

Removed, washed, dried and put back in the opening they came out of. Screens hold an astonishing amount of dust and pollen, and a clean pane behind a dirty screen looks dirty.

Tracks and sills

Vacuumed and wiped. This is where the grit, dead insects and old sash lubricant collect, and it is the detail people notice most once it is gone.

Frames

Wiped down, including the exterior frame where algae film builds up on shaded elevations.

How we avoid streaks

Streaking is nearly always one of three things: cleaning in direct sun so the solution dries before it can be squeegeed off, working with contaminated water, or using a cloth that sheds. All three are avoidable.

We work the shaded elevations of the house when the sun is on the others, which on a bright day means sequencing the whole job around the building rather than working in whatever order is convenient. Water gets changed rather than stretched. And the final detail pass around the edges is where a job is actually won or lost — the middle of a pane is easy, the perimeter is not.

For upper storeys and hard-to-reach glass we use a water-fed pole with purified water. Because the water has had its dissolved minerals stripped out, it dries without leaving any deposit at all — no squeegee contact needed, and nothing left behind as it evaporates. It is the reason a second-floor window can come out as clean as one we can reach by hand.

Hard water and what cannot be squeegeed off

Some glass has spotting that is not dirt. Sprinkler overspray, runoff from a failing gutter, or years of hard water evaporating on the same spot leaves mineral deposit that has bonded to the surface of the glass. A normal clean will not touch it, and no amount of additional scrubbing changes that.

It usually responds to a specific mineral treatment, which is a separate process from washing. In the worst cases — where the deposit has actually etched into the glass rather than sitting on it — the damage is permanent and the only real fix is replacement. We will tell you which of those you are looking at rather than repeatedly cleaning a window that will never improve.

The prevention is worth more than the cure here: an irrigation head that hits a window every single day will re-create the problem within a season.

What drives the price

Pane count first, then accessibility. A large picture window is quicker than four small divided panes covering the same area, because the time is in the edges. Storeys matter, and so does whether the glass can be reached from the ground.

Interior access adds time — furniture to work around, and a walk through the house rather than around it. Screens and tracks are included, so they are not a surprise line.

Questions we get asked