Window Cleaning in Cinderhill

Window Cleaning for Cinderhill homes

Three storey houses put a tall stairwell window above a garage roof, which gets done from the ground with a pole because that roof is not a platform. On recent builds the first clean lifts installation silicone haze that plain water will not touch.

The newer estates are exposed in a way established streets are not. Planting is young or absent, the ground between the houses is open, and there is nothing to slow the wind, so glass gets a steady load of dry grit rather than the slow film a sheltered road builds up. The windows themselves are large and the sills sit low, so there is a lot of it to see. The other feature is height in an odd place: a three storey house puts a tall stairwell window at first and second floor level, frequently directly above a garage roof or a flat porch. That gets done from the ground and nowhere else. A garage roof is a thin sheet on light timbers and is not a working platform, whatever it looks like from the ground.

Cinderhill sits in NG6, under Nottingham City Council. The housing here is mostly older terraces and interwar semis from the years the pit was working, with estates of newer houses, three storey townhouses and small closes built across the reclaimed colliery ground behind them, and that is what shapes this job more than the floor area does.

What we run into on Cinderhill window cleaning jobs

The first clean on a recent build is a different job from the ones after it. New units are bedded in with silicone and the surplus gets wiped rather than cut, so a haze sits along the edge of the glass that plain water will not shift and a blade skips over. Silicone is not soluble in detergent. It comes off with a solvent worked along the bead and then a full rinse, and it is a one-off: once gone, the pane cleans normally afterwards. The same visit usually turns up mortar splashes on the outer face of the frames, which come off wet and dissolve the plastic if anyone attacks them with an acidic cleaner.

How a Cinderhill window cleaning job actually runs

The round here is shaped by back gates. On the newer terraced blocks the rear gardens open onto a shared path with a gate at each end, and if either is bolted from the inside the back elevation cannot be reached at all, no matter what kit is on the van. Some houses have no side access whatsoever, and then the only route is through the house, which is a different job and needs somebody in. So the first visit is partly a survey: we find out which gates open, which are bolted, and where the tap and the standing space are. After that a regular round runs without you being home, since the poles work from ground level and the water comes off the van. We work to a rota rather than to a phone call, and we come whatever the sky is doing short of real wind, because rain does not dirty clean glass and a shower after a clean is not a reason to redo it. What does end a round early is a locked gate nobody knew about.

Who books it here

The local reference points are the Phoenix Park tram terminus, Nuthall Road and the old colliery ground, which is usually enough for us to find a property without a postcode lookup.

We run Cinderhill on the same round as Old Basford, Aspley and Highbury Vale.

What we check on every Cinderhill job

There is one complaint on modern glazing that is not a complaint at all, and it is worth knowing before you make it. On a clear autumn morning the outside face of the pane fogs over with dew while the inside stays perfectly clear. It looks like a badly finished clean and it appears a day or two after the visit, which makes it look like our fault. It is the opposite. A well insulated unit keeps so little heat on the outer pane that the glass drops below the dew point of the night air, and the whole outer face condenses like a cold bottle. It burns off by mid morning. You see it on new windows and never on old single glazing, and where a pane is sheltered under a porch or shaded by a tree it will not do it at all, which is why one window on a house can look wrong while the rest look right.

What the window cleaning covers

A sample of what is included

• Interior: Edges detailed with a dry microfibre
• Exterior: Glass, frames and sills cleaned together
• Also: Conservatory roofs and glazing
• Exterior: Drainage holes at the bottom of the frame cleared, which otherwise block and let water pool inside

That is a sample rather than the whole list. The full window cleaning page sets out every section of the scope, what is deliberately excluded and why, how long it takes on each property size, and what tends to go wrong.