Window Cleaning Around the Swan and the South Yardley Semis
Window cleaning in South Yardley has a domestic half that is refreshingly simple. Interwar semis, a bay at the front, standard casements and sealed units elsewhere, a conservatory on the back with side glazing and a roof, and a drive to stand on. Everything is reached from the ground with a pole, and we rarely have to negotiate a parked car or a narrow entry to get round to the rear of the property.
The commercial half is a different trade running to a different clock. Shopfront glass around the Swan is full height, close to the pavement and touched by passers-by all day, so it dirties inside a fortnight in ways a house never does. Door glass, push plates, entrance screens and the inside face of the frontage all need doing, and our 8am start means most of it is finished before the units open.
- Service
- Window Cleaning
- Area covered
- South Yardley, B25 and B26
- Local authority
- Birmingham
- How we do it
- Pure water through a reach and wash pole, from the ground
- From our Selly Oak base
- About 25 minutes
- Price
- Quoted per property before we start (quoting and booking questions)
- Booking
- Call or WhatsApp 07788 574283
Estate elevations, conservatory run-off and Coventry Road film
Three separate things dirty glass in this ward. On the semis it is the ordinary business of an exposed estate elevation plus whatever the conservatory throws up, since roof run-off carries dirt straight down onto the side glazing beneath it. On the terraces facing the Coventry Road it is traffic film, which greys a front elevation weeks ahead of the rear of the same house. Around the Swan it is hands and feet: fingerprints, pushchair marks and the greasy band across the bottom half of a door that no amount of stretching the interval will fix.
- Conservatory roof run-off, dirtying the side glazing under it between window visits
- Traffic film on the Coventry Road frontages, greying the front long before the back
- Full-height shopfront glass around the Swan, showing every mark from a metre away
- Door glass, push plates and entrance screens under constant hand contact
- First-floor bays above a drive, where a pole works easily and a ladder never should
Bays face by face from the drive, shopfronts from 8am
Filtered deionised water up a water-fed pole from ground level, everywhere in the ward, houses and units alike. On a domestic visit we take each face of the bay separately, do the conservatory side glazing and doors within the visit, and brush frames, sills and cill boards with the pole because that is the part seen from the pavement. On shopfronts we do the outer and inner face of the frontage, the doors, the push plates and the frame, squeegeeing by hand wherever a display sits tight behind the glass.
- Ground-based pole at every property, so nothing rests on a bay, a fascia or a shop sign
- Conservatory side glazing and doors included in the domestic visit, not billed apart
- Frames, sills and cill boards brushed with the pole, since that is what shows from the street
- Shopfront interiors squeegeed by hand where a window display stands behind the glass
More detail on the equipment and the order of work: the full window cleaning process.
How South Yardley visits are grouped
Domestic visits go onto set days on a six-weekly cycle, covering the semis off Barrows Lane and Hob Moor Road and out towards Yardley Green, and the terraces closer to the Coventry Road, which we do from the kerb and allow a little more time for. Shopfronts around the Swan take the first slot of the day, on their own shorter cycle. Nobody needs to be home for exterior work on a house. We leave a note to say we have been and invoice afterwards, with no need to knock.
Openings and the conservatory in a South Yardley price
Two things set a domestic price: the number of openings and whether the conservatory is included. A standard semi with a bay, sealed units and a drive to set up on sits at the straightforward end, and adding the conservatory side glazing at the same visit adds only a little. The terraces near the Coventry Road are a touch higher per house, because we work from the kerb and carry further. Shopfronts are quoted per unit per visit on frontage width, height and whether the internal face is included, and they come out lower per visit than a house with the same glass area, since the cycle is short and the glass never builds up much between visits.
Six weeks on the semis, four on the Coventry Road
Six weeks is the domestic standard here and suits most of the semis. Four is worth the money on the Coventry Road frontages, where traffic film builds far faster than on the side streets. Eight is fine for a sheltered inner street. Retail frontage around the Swan is another world entirely: fortnightly as a minimum, weekly on food units, pharmacies and anywhere with a steady stream of pushchairs, because that glass is the first thing a customer judges.
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Frequently asked questions
Yes: the side glazing, the doors and the frames go on it, inside the price. The roof does not, because it needs a soft-wash solution and dwell time instead of a rinse. An annual roof wash, with the six-weekly visit handling everything else, suits most houses here.
No. It all comes off a water-fed pole from the ground, which reaches up to three storeys, and on the semis we are standing on your own drive to do it. On a shopfront, a ladder in a pedestrian area before opening is a hazard to the public rather than a shortcut, so one method covers both halves of the ward.
Fortnightly holds most retail frontage around the Swan in decent order. Anywhere with a food counter, a cash machine or a steady stream of pushchairs wants weekly, and we would rather set that at the start than have you cancelling in three months.
Yes. On commercial frontage the internal face is normally part of the job from the outset, because a shopfront cleaned on one side only still looks dirty to somebody on the pavement looking in. On houses we do insides by request and quote them on their own, since somebody has to let us in.
Yes, a little. Parking on the property means one setup, no hose run across a public footway and no time lost finding a space, and that shows up in the figure. The terraces off the Coventry Road are quoted slightly higher for precisely the reverse reason, not because of anything to do with the street itself.
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