Two ways to plan a cleaning visit.
One treats every building the same. The other starts from the height of the elevation and works outward. Here is what separates them.
A building's height changes what a visit needs
A ground-floor shopfront and a third-floor window face the same weather but need different equipment, timing and safety planning. Treating them alike tends to under-serve one or over-complicate the other. Putting the two approaches side by side makes the reasoning behind height-based planning easier to follow.
One method for every elevation
- Equipment is often chosen for convenience rather than for the height involved.
- Access is worked out on arrival, which can mean the visit is rescheduled once the height becomes clear.
- Frames, tracks and drainage are sometimes left for a separate, additional visit.
Method set by elevation, in advance
- Ground reach, stepladder or platform reach, and anything taller are separated before a date is set.
- Access conditions, such as where a ladder can stand and where water can be drawn, are confirmed before the visit.
- Frames, sills and outlets are in scope, since they affect how long the glass stays clean.
Three points of difference
Access planned first
The height band is confirmed before a date is set, not discovered on site.
Purified water on frontages
Water-fed pole equipment lets glass dry without deposit, which shows most on street-facing shopfronts.
A note for the file
Each visit leaves a short written note, handy for a building's maintenance schedule.
What tends to hold up longer
Cleaning that clears channels and sills alongside the glass tends to stay clean for longer, because dirt left in the frame washes back onto the pane within weeks. That is a pattern, not a promise about any one building: traffic, exposure and weather all play a part.
What the price reflects
Each offer's guide price reflects the scope, equipment and time for its height band, as set out on the offers page. The written quotation confirms the final amount before anything is booked.
Spacing visits around the seasons
A single visit resets a building's appearance, but the gap before the next one is worth planning. Homes on busy roads, or buildings with shaded north-facing surfaces prone to growth, often do better with visits spaced around the seasons than with waiting until the difference is obvious.
Worth clarifying
- A cheaper ladder-only visit is not automatically the lower-cost option if it has to be repeated sooner because the frames were skipped.
- Some elevations are simply too tall for the three offers here. When that is the case the building is said to be outside scope rather than stretched to fit.
Questions about which approach suits your building?
A short description of the elevation is enough to start working out an access plan.
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