Window Cleaners

By Author: Kristina Yager
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Window cleaners provide a very helpful service that can keep a home looking nicer than it would otherwise with no work on the part of the homeowner. Signing up to such as service means that on an agreed basis (monthly, every three months etc) depending on the size of your home and your budget, a window cleaner will come round to your house and clean the outside windows for you for a set price.

This service is one that many people overlook seeing it as something they can do themselves, however such an attitude demonstrates a lack of awareness about just how difficult a task this represents.

First of all, an ordinary sized family home will require a good ten to fifteen windows that need to be cleaned, and many of these will be around the side of the house in awkward places. This then involves going outside with a bucket of cold soapy water (which will be even more unpleasant in the colder winter months when your hands start going numb) and clambering through bushes or over gates to get to your windows. This will then involve several other trips to and from the kitchen in order to refill the bucket in between washes ...
... and to replace the soapy water with clear water for rinsing (window cleaners have the advantage of having everything they need in their van).

Each window is then likely to take a good twenty minutes to an hour if you don't have the right tools and aren't sure what you're doing. Any quicker and the chances are that you won't be doing a particularly good job and may even leave your windows looking marked and soapy after you're done which certainly isn't a great look. In total then, to wash all of the outside windows you're looking at at least six hours worth of work, potentially in the cold and probably continuing as it starts to get dark. Of course you could spread this process over several days but then you'll be ruining your evenings after work for a row of six or more days, and then it won't be long before you'll have to start again. Are you really going to stick to that plan or are you more likely to just blow it off for ‘later'.

Window cleaners on the other have a set technique they use for each window that means it only takes a set number of strokes. They also have specialist equipment and the best window cleaning products which will ensure that you not only get the cleanest finish but that they are able to move quickly around the house and keep their prices low. They will also be able to reach the areas that you're unable to and if you ask them to that can include second story windows.

Of course you'll still have to clean the inside of your windows yourself, but this is a far quicker task as you can easily walk the bucket around inside and they'll all be at a good level to clean (and you won't have to go out in bad weather to do it either). Having clean windows is important as it's the only thing that will look good from both the inside and the outside of your home.

In hot summer months, using a window cleaner, window cleaning service can save a lot of time and hard work. We regularly use this domestic window cleaning expert in Malvern.