Window Cleaning in Moseley

Second-floor sashes, shared buildings and green film under the trees

Three things make window cleaning in B13 its own job. Height, because second-floor sashes on a subdivided house are beyond every resident in it, and on a converted house they belong to the whole building. Detail, because a Moseley bay comes with moulded timber, glazing bars and painted cills that hold far more visible dirt than the panes do, so a glass-only clean looks half finished from the pavement. And the trees, which coat the glass with sap and tannin through late summer and leave a green film on shaded elevations all winter. None of it is limescale spotting, since Birmingham runs on soft Elan Valley water. It is organic growth, and a pure water finish shifts it better than a harder scrub would.

• Second-floor sashes on subdivided houses, out of reach of every household living in the building
• Deep bays with moulded timber, glazing bars and painted cills carrying more visible dirt than the glass
• Sap and leaf tannin from the canopy in late summer, then a green bloom on north-facing panes all winter
• Traffic film on the frontages along the Alcester Road and around St Mary’s Row, a different problem to the side streets
• Flats sharing one elevation, where one booking covering every household’s windows at once works best

Ground-level pure water, then the sashes finished by hand

Pure water on a pole, worked from ground level, so nothing rests on a bay roof, on decorative timber or on a conservatory frame at the back. Frames, glazing bars and cills are brushed with the pole as the glass is washed, and on a Moseley bay they are where the job is won or lost. The glass gets pure filtered water only, with no detergent and no squeegee on the outside, and where a painted or uPVC frame needs a proper cleaner, that is noted on the quote. Surviving original sashes get a gentler pass than a replacement unit three doors down, and we work the meeting rails and the horns properly instead of sweeping across them. On a converted house we do the whole elevation in one visit, including the half-landing stairwell glass where that is in the scope.

• Everything from the pavement with a pure water pole, so no ladder foot lands on a bay roof or decorative timber
• Painted cills, glazing bars and moulded bay timber brushed with the pole, since that is what shows from the street
• Lower pressure on surviving original sashes than on the replacement units next door
• The whole building cleaned in one visit on a converted house, with the invoice broken down by flat

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Bays, second-floor sashes and the canopy

We cover the roads off the Alcester Road and out towards Wake Green Road and Billesley Lane, and the Village frontages can go on a shorter cycle, since shopfront and above-shop glass on St Mary’s Row picks up traffic film quickly. The shaded roads near Moseley Bog behave differently again: the glass there turns green, not grey, and it starts on the north side of the house. Rear elevations are reached through a side gate on the whole houses and through the communal hall on the converted ones, which is worth sorting out before the visit.

Deep bays and a third storey in a Moseley window quote

Price follows the number and type of openings, not the size of the house, and Moseley houses are glass-heavy: a deep bay counts as several units, and a third storey adds a whole extra row of them. Original multi-pane sashes take noticeably longer than a modern sealed unit and we price them for what they actually are, with no averaging across the street. A one-off after a year of sap and tannin costs more than regular visits, because it needs a second pass to clear properly. On a converted house we quote the building and break it down by flat, so the whole elevation is done in one visit and each household sees its own line.

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Four to six weeks on the Alcester Road, longer on the leafy side streets

Four to six weeks for anything fronting the Alcester Road or sitting above a shop in the Village, where traffic film returns quickly. Six to eight weeks is plenty on the quieter roads, though a house under heavy canopy does better on the shorter interval through late summer while sap is landing. For a converted house, a quarterly clean of the whole building is the compromise four households are most likely to agree and stick to.