Window Cleaning in Perry Barr

Traffic film that dulls a whole A34 elevation

Traffic film is not the same substance as ordinary dirt and it does not behave like it. It is a fine oily deposit that bonds to glass and uPVC, dulls a whole elevation evenly, without streaks, and it is why a house on the A34 can look tired four weeks after a clean while an identical house two streets back still looks fine. New buildings add their own problems: glazing that has never been cleaned holds adhesive residue at the edges, and construction dust from the ongoing regeneration lands wet and dries on. Communal glazing over an entrance is the piece nobody in the building considers theirs, so it goes longest.

• Heavy traffic on the rebuilt A34 and Birchfield Island, laying oily film onto glass and uPVC alike
• Brand-new frames and glazing with adhesive residue still at the edges from the protective film
• Construction dust from the ongoing regeneration, landing wet on glass and drying on hard
• High-level and communal glazing over block entrances, which no individual resident treats as theirs
• Interwar bays and wide sills in the older streets, where the frames hold more grime than the glass

Pure water from the ground, frames and sills included

Everything is done from the ground with a water-fed pole running filtered, deionised water, up to three storeys. Frames and sills are brushed by the pole as part of the job, not after it, because on a main-road elevation the frames are carrying at least as much film as the glass. On new-build glazing we check the edges for leftover adhesive and soften it before anything else, never scrubbing a coating that new. Pure water dries without spotting, so nothing gets towelled off. On block work we clean the communal entrance glazing on the same visit as the flats.

• Water-fed pole from ground level to three storeys, with no ladder against new render or balustrades
• Frames and sills cleaned every visit, since traffic film settles on uPVC as heavily as on glass
• Leftover film adhesive on new glazing softened and lifted, never scoured off a young coating
• Communal entrance glazing done alongside the flats, so it is not left to whoever notices it first

More detail on the equipment and the order of work: the full window cleaning process.

Getting to Perry Barr windows

B42 bookings are grouped on set days. The A34 corridor around Birchfield Island and the frontages near the One Stop suit a four-weekly cycle. The Residential Scheme streets by Alexander Stadium are mostly agent-booked communal and block work, arranged as one visit for the building. The quieter semis towards Perry Hall Park and the Handsworth Wood side sit comfortably at eight weeks. Exterior work needs nobody at home, though a stadium event day is worth flagging, since it decides whether we can park anywhere near you.

Why the interval shapes the yearly bill on the A34

Price follows the number and type of openings and the height, as everywhere, but in Perry Barr the interval is what really governs what you pay over a year. On an A34 frontage a four-weekly visit is short and cheap each time, because a month of film comes off easily. Leave the same house twelve months and it becomes a restoration job priced accordingly, and the glass may not fully recover in one pass. Block work is quoted per building on the number of cores and elevations and the communal glazing in scope. Doing the flats and the communal areas together keeps them on one visit and one invoice.

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Four weeks on the main road, six to eight a street back

Four weeks on anything fronting the A34 or sitting near Birchfield Island, because the film genuinely returns that fast. Six weeks suits the semis a street or two back. Eight weeks is fine on the quieter roads towards Perry Hall Park. Communal glazing on the blocks usually wants the shorter interval regardless of position, because entrance glass shows hand marks and film long before a flat window does.