Window cleaning in Houston

What Houston does to a window

Houston sits fifty miles from the Gulf on flat coastal prairie, and the air that comes up from the water never really dries out. From River Oaks and Afton Oaks west along San Felipe to Tanglewood and Briargrove, and from Montrose and Upper Kirby north through Rice Military to The Heights, the houses sit under some of the biggest live oaks in Texas. Those oaks do two things to the glass. In March they drop catkins and a fine yellow pollen that coats every window, sill and screen, followed by the pines in April, and the rest of the year they shade the north and east sides of the house so the glass and screens stay damp and grow a gray-green film by midsummer.

Then there is the water. Houston’s municipal water is hard, and nearly every yard in River Oaks, Tanglewood and Highland Village has a sprinkler system that runs most mornings from April through October. The overspray hits the same lower panes every day and dries into a white mineral haze that a regular wash only softens. In June and July the Saharan dust arrives on the Gulf wind and settles on everything as a fine tan grit, and the summer storms and hurricane season throw leaf litter and grit at the glass through September. River Oaks, The Heights and Montrose are rebuilding constantly, and the concrete dust from job sites on Kirby Drive, Shepherd Drive and Heights Boulevard settles on glass for blocks.

A quarterly plan suits most Houston homes, with the inside glass done once a year, and many customers add a visit right after the March pollen. The larger homes in River Oaks, Tanglewood and the Boulevard Oaks streets have a great deal of glass, tall windows on the second and third floors and often steel casements or original wood sash on the older houses, and we clean them with water-fed poles from the ground and ladders where needed. We work River Oaks, Tanglewood and The Heights on their own days, work the whole street in one pass, and send a text the morning of each visit so nobody has to wait at home.

Where we work in Houston

• River Oaks and River Oaks Boulevard
• Tanglewood
• Afton Oaks and Highland Village
• Briargrove
• Montrose
• Upper Kirby
• The Heights and Heights Boulevard
• Rice Military and Memorial Park
• Boulevard Oaks and Southampton
• San Felipe and Kirby Drive corridor

We also clean windows in Memorial Villages, West University and Bellaire, The Woodlands and Kingwood, Katy and Cypress, Sugar Land and Pearland.