Window cleaners on the North Shore

North Shore glass works hard. Harbour-facing windows in Mosman, Neutral Bay and Northbridge collect a salt haze that returns within weeks of a clean, and the big picture windows and bi-fold doors of renovated houses magnify every streak. In Ku-ring-gai, spring pollen and sap from gums and liquidambars sit on glass and in the tracks of sliding doors. Then there is the older stock: Federation houses with timber sash windows, leadlight panels and casements that cannot take a hose at pressure, and apartment blocks where the outside of the glass belongs to the owners corporation rather than the resident.

A vetted window cleaner matches the tool to the building. For ground and first floor glass that often means traditional squeegee work. For higher windows and glass stepping down a slope, water-fed poles carrying purified water will do three or four storeys from ground level, which keeps the tradie off ladders and satisfies NSW fall-prevention rules. Where poles will not reach, a platform or rope access with trained operators is the safe alternative. Glass balustrades on balconies, and pool fences, get the same treatment, and cleaning a pool fence does not alter its compliance. Timber frames and putty are wiped by hand, and tracks, screens and sills are usually offered as extras.

Post the job with the number of storeys, how many windows roughly, whether there are skylights or balustrades, and whether access is from a garden, a balcony or a shared walkway. Vetted window cleaners who cover your part of the North Shore receive it and send their own written quotes, splitting inside and outside glass if you ask. The introduction is free to homeowners, who are not obliged to proceed. For apartments, the exterior of a building is common property, so a tradie will ask that the strata manager has approved the work before anyone sets up outside.