Window Cleaning
Domestic & Commercial
We offer a professional window cleaning service to both domestic and commercial clients. We currently clean windows for over 200 clients in and near Glasgow. (more on where we work here)
Exterior & Interior windows
We clean all exterior windows using the pure water-fed pole system (details below) and use the traditional soap and squeegee method for inside windows where the water-fed pole system is not suitable.
Up to 4th floor/44ft
Depending on the spacing of the flooring on the property, we can easily reach up to 4th floor with our pure water-fed pole system.
Silicon, Paint & Cement marks removal
On top of our standard window cleaning service, we offer an extra thorough clean for an additional price. This clean includes paint spots removal, silicon marks removal and cement spots removal.
Pure Water-Fed Pole system
How it works
We use carbon fibre telescopic poles- allowing us to reach great heights while still maintaining control of the pole. On the end of the pole is a soft brush along with two or more jets for water. A hose is fed up the inside of the pole and powerful pumps in our van system carry pure water through 100 meters of hose and then up to the jets in the brush at the top of the pole- releasing strong jets of pure water. Dirt and staining on glass, and UPVC, is agitated with the soft brush and washed away.
Pure/deionised water
​​​​​The key component of the system is pure water. Pure water is ordinary tap water that we treat through a process of filtration or resin. The result is that all minerals in the water that we usually need to make it drinkable are removed, what remains is known as deionised or pure water, as it is precisely only H2O. There are two reasons why this is ideal for cleaning. Most importantly, since the water is free from minerals and sediment it dries naturally without leaving a trace, leaving windows perfectly clean. The second benefit is that since it is deionised, the water molecules are drawn to seek out sediment to bond to. This means that as we rinse the glass with the pure water, it drags and washes away dirt exceptionally well- leaving nothing behind to cause marks on the glass.
Additional benefits
The pure water-fed pole system allows us to clean window frames and sills in addition to the glass to a high standard. It is a much safer method of working and allows us to access windows that were previously inaccessible for cleaning. It is also more versatile as we use it to provide other professional cleaning services in addition to window cleaning. (services- here)
Working in the rain
Normally, rainfall is actually pure water made through natural filtration. It is only when rain is polluted or full of sand that it leaves marks on your glass. With traditional cleaning using soap, when the glass is squeegeed there remains a microscopic film of soap residue which is invisible… until it is disturbed by rain or something else, then it becomes visible in the form of streaks and marks. Since the pure water system we use leaves no residue at all behind on the glass, there is nothing for the rain to cause streaks with, so the windows remain clean until pollutants in the air or contaminated rain, insect and bird poo or cobwebs etc cause them to become dirty again.
How We Work
Cleaning
As standard, we clean all frames, sills, window vents and doors along with the glass.
The first-clean of the windows of a property often takes 2-4 times as long as subsequent, regular cleans.
This is usually the case if:
• The windows of a property have not been cleaned for quite some time and bird poo, cobwebs, algae, lichen and other environmental dust and debris has built up on the glass, frames, inside vents and on sills and various crevices.
• The windows have soap dry-soaked into the rubber seals around the glass, from previous cleaning, which causes them to bleed and perish over time. It takes time to purify the seals by scrubbing and rinsing the soap out (the water-fed pole system we use cleans out the soap, leaves no residue and is kind to seals).
After the first-clean, with each regular clean, we again scrub the glass, frames, vents, sills, and doors and rinse with deionised water.
In this process, we remove the faint film of environmental dust and of mineral deposits that slowly builds from weeks of rain. We remove the dust from vents, and debris, cobwebs and foliage from sills and scrub and rinse the glass, rubber seals and frames to prevent the gradual build-up of algae and organic growths.
If it seems that the windows are never dirty - never have any significant or obvious film or build-up of dirt on them- then we have accomplished our goal; that is the purpose of our regular cleaning service, to keep the windows and frames clean to a high standard, all year round.
In fact, you will notice that the windows generally stay clean to a high standard throughout the period between maintenance cleans, even in heavy rain. This is due to three factors:
1) Rain itself is usually purified water, so doesn’t, by nature cause streaks.
2) Since we clean all frames and vents, including the frame above the glass, depending on how the windows are set in the property- and how water from above them runs- because the frame above the glass is clean, the rain does not bring dirt from it down onto the glass.
3) Since we use the pure (deionised) water-fed pole system. Deionised water leaves no residue of any kind on your glass for the rain to interact with and cause streaks.
Frequency
4 weekly is the base most window cleaners work from as it keeps the windows clean to a high standard consistently. It also allows us to keep on top of managing all the dust, dirt, debris and growths that do eventually build-up on all windows, frames, sills and vents, given enough time.
It also warrants the customer existing on our books - we have to do book keeping and manage each customer. If we only clean a customer a few times a year, for example, their space on our books becomes less worthwhile. Most customers opt for and are happy with 4 weekly cleaning.
We offer 2, 4 and 8 weekly cleaning.
With 4 weekly being by far this most popular, making up about 90% of our customer base of over 200 customers.
4 and 8 weekly qualify as "maintenance” cleans.
We charge more for less frequent cleans partly due to the representative loss of custom and partly due to the fact that the windows tend to be dirtier; with 8 weekly being the least frequent clean we offer to domestic customers.
Due to the great representative loss of custom and greatly increased dirtiness of the windows, particularly vents and sills where spiders build their webs which hold and cause build-up of environmental dust and debris and for the reasons regarding book keeping outlined above, for domestic customers, 8 weekly is the most infrequent clean we offer.