Window Cleaning in Rise Park

Window Cleaning for Rise Park homes

Stick on lead strip and applied Georgian bars are common on this stock, and a blade lifts them off the glass, so they get worked around. The openers are small top vents, which leaves the fixed panes to us.

Two features of this glazing decide the job. The first is applied lead: strips of self adhesive lead stuck to the outer face of the pane, and plastic Georgian bars, both fitted in quantity when these houses went up or were reglazed. A blade takes them off in one piece, so nothing on this stock gets scraped, and the edges are worked with a cloth instead of driven at with a squeegee. The second is the shape of the windows. The openers are small top vents over a large fixed pane, which means a householder can reach very little of the inside glass without a pole. That is why interiors here are worth booking deliberately, and why the fixed panes are the ones carrying a film in January.

Rise Park sits in NG5, under Nottingham City Council. The housing here is mostly late twentieth century private estate housing in brick with concrete tile roofs, detached and semi-detached in small closes, most with an integral garage and an open plan front lawn running to the pavement, and that is what shapes this job more than the floor area does.

What we run into on Rise Park window cleaning jobs

The friction stays are where the dirt has been living. On a window of this age the hinge track along the edge of an opener holds grit, spider webbing and a black grease that has never been touched, and none of it is visible until the vent is opened for the first time in months. Those get brushed and wiped while the window stands open rather than reached past. The low window in the old garage opening is the other regular one, and it is dirty for a physical reason. It sits nearer the ground than any pane in the house and right beside the drive, so rain coming off hard paving spatters a gritty line along its bottom rail.

How a Rise Park window cleaning job actually runs

Getting round the outside is the first question and the answer changes house by house. Open frontages mean nothing blocks the front, but the back is reached through a side gate that is often the only gap between the house and the boundary, and where a garage has been converted the old side door has usually gone with it, so a bolted gate and nobody in means the rear elevation does not get done that visit. We ask for it to be left unbolted on the day. Cars are the other one. A vehicle parked hard against the front bay stops a pole being worked at a sensible angle and puts run off down the paintwork, so it is worth moving onto the road for the hour. Upstairs is pole work from the ground, which needs firm footing rather than a soft border, and the pole has to clear the eaves, the gutter and any satellite dish. Conservatories and the newer solid roof replacements get quoted separately, since a roof is a different job from a window and the glazing bars hold moss.

Who books it here

The local reference points are Rise Park Primary and Nursery School, the shopping parade and the open ground beyond, which is usually enough for us to find a property without a postcode lookup.

We run Rise Park on the same round as Top Valley, Bestwood and Arnold.

What we check on every Rise Park job

Frames tell you more than the glass does. Along the bottom of every uPVC window there are drainage slots, and when those block with moss, grit and dead flies, the rainwater that gets past the outer seal sits inside the frame instead of draining away, which is how a sill starts weeping into the room in heavy weather. We clear them as part of the wash. Gaskets are the other thing. The black rubber holding the glass in goes chalky and shrinks back at the corners, on the sunniest elevation first, and a shrunken gasket lets water stand against the edge of the sealed unit. That is what eventually causes misting between the panes, and misting is not dirt. Nothing cleaned from either side will touch it and the unit has to be replaced, so we point out which ones have gone.

What the window cleaning covers

A sample of what is included

• Also: Conservatory roofs and glazing
• Interior: Internal glazed doors, mirrors and glass partitions
• Interior: Edges detailed with a dry microfibre
• Interior: Glass washed, squeegeed in a single continuous pass and buffed dry

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.