Window Cleaning for Selly Park Edwardian Bays and Leaded Top Lights
Windows in Selly Park take more work than the street view suggests, and the housing is why. The Edwardian stock here carries big square bays on the front, often two storeys of them, with original leaded lights in the upper sashes and top lights and sometimes right across the front room. That is a great deal of edge: every came line, every glazing bar and every timber rebate holds dirt that a flat sealed unit has nowhere to keep.
The standard interval is six weeks. Houses on the Pershore Road frontage pick up traffic film noticeably faster than the quiet streets behind them, so those go on four weeks, and we say so at the quote instead of selling one interval to everybody in the postcode.
- Service
- Window Cleaning
- Area covered
- Selly Park, B29
- Local authority
- Birmingham
- How we do it
- Pure water through a reach and wash pole, from the ground
- From our Selly Oak base
- 5 minutes
- Price
- Quoted per property before we start (what the quote covers)
- Booking
- Call or WhatsApp 07788 574283
Traffic film at the front, honeydew at the back
Two things dirty windows in Selly Park and they arrive from opposite directions. From the front, the Pershore Road lays traffic film across every elevation facing it, a fine oily grey that dulls glass long before anyone would call it dirty. From the back, the mature garden trees standing close to these houses drop sap, pollen and honeydew straight onto the rear glazing all summer, and honeydew dries hard so ordinary wiping smears it into a haze instead of lifting it. The leaded panels themselves are then the part nobody at home can safely reach: they usually sit at first floor level in a bay, and a domestic ladder against a bay roof is how people fall.
- Two storey Edwardian bays, with the upper glazing beyond anything a household owns
- Original leaded lights whose came and putty lines hold grime and will not take scrubbing
- Traffic film off the Pershore Road on every elevation that faces it
- Sap, pollen and sticky honeydew from garden trees standing close to the rear of the house
- Painted timber frames and stone sills on the older stock, showing dirt far sooner than uPVC does
Working along the came on old leaded panels
Everything is done off a water fed pole at ground level, running filtered and deionised water, so nothing at all rests on a bay roof, a cast iron downpipe or a leaded panel. On leaded lights the pressure comes right down and we work along the came, never across it, because old lead and ageing putty do not want water driven into the joints. Frames, stone sills and the bay cills are brushed with the pole as the glass is rinsed, and where a painted frame needs more than that, we say which one. Pure water dries clear, so nothing is towelled off and no cloth is ever dragged across a leaded panel.
- Ground based pole to three storeys, so nothing leans on a bay roof or a cast iron downpipe
- Reduced pressure worked along the came on leaded lights, never across the joints
- Painted timber frames, stone sills and bay cills brushed by the pole as the glass is rinsed
- Four weeks on the Pershore Road frontage, six weeks on the streets behind it
More detail on the equipment and the order of work: window cleaning across Birmingham.
Six weekly visits across Selly Park
Selly Park is five minutes from our base, so a first visit within the week is usually possible, and later visits follow on a regular cycle. The area runs from the Pershore Road through the streets towards the Recreation Ground and the River Rea, and up to the Edgbaston boundary. Summer is heavier than winter here because of the garden trees, and July is reliably the stickiest month of the year. You do not need to be in for the outside, and we drop a card through the door afterwards. Interiors need somebody at home, so we book those separately.
Pane count and frame material set a Selly Park quote
Two things set the price on a Selly Park house: the pane count, and what the frames are made of. A two storey bay with leaded upper lights carries several times the edge length of the flat uPVC unit that replaced its neighbour, and those extra hours are what the quote reflects. Staying at six weeks is what keeps the figure modest, because six weeks of traffic film comes off in a single pass. A house that has gone a year between cleans becomes a restoration job and is priced like one, so a first visit on a neglected elevation costs more than the ones after it.
Four weeks on the Pershore Road, six on the streets behind
Six weeks is the standard interval here. Four weeks is worth paying for if your frontage faces the Pershore Road, where traffic film builds fastest. Eight weeks is fine for a sheltered house on a quiet street with modern units and nothing overhanging the back. Annual cleaning is a false economy on leaded glazing, because a full year of honeydew and traffic film turns every visit into a heavy job.
Overall satisfied with service this company has provided leaving windows & guttering clean.
First time customer. Excellent service and great job. Will definitely be using them again in the future.
Charles was great. He was very professional and did a great job.
Selly Park · Window Cleaning
Frequently asked questions
Yes, and they are common in the Edwardian houses here. Leaded panels get a low pressure pure water clean worked along the came, not across it, because forcing water into the joints of old lead and putty is how a panel starts to bow and weep. We never scrub them and we never towel them dry afterwards.
Yes, from the ground. The water fed pole reaches three storeys, so upper bay glazing and the sashes above a bay roof are routine, with no ladder resting on the bay roof or the guttering. That is precisely the window a Selly Park household cannot safely do itself.
If you face the Pershore Road, traffic film. It is a fine oily deposit off exhaust and brake dust and it settles evenly, so it dulls glass evenly without spotting it, and most people do not notice until one window has been cleaned next to another. Houses on the frontage go on the four week interval for that reason.
Honeydew, from aphids in the trees over the garden. It is sugary, it dries hard, and wiping it with a cloth only spreads it into a haze. Pure water and a soft brush lift it properly. In Selly Park it is at its worst in July.
Always, in the same visit. On painted timber and stone sills, which is a lot of the older stock around here, the frame carries more visible dirt than the glass does, so cleaning the pane alone leaves a bay looking half finished from the pavement. That defeats the point of having it done.
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