Window Cleaning in Ashfield

In conservation areas including Rose Street, Service Avenue and Lucy Street, council lists original timber-framed windows among the features that give the streets their character, and swapping them for aluminium frames as an unsympathetic change. Frames, putty and sills of that age deserve a careful hand, and leaning a ladder on them risks marking the paint or the timber itself.

Height is the bigger challenge across most of the suburb. Post-war low-rise flats, the two-storey inter-war flat buildings of Hampden and King Streets and the newer flats still being built all put glass out of easy reach. With the pole worked from the ground, those windows are cleaned without scaffolding or climbing.

Windows facing Parramatta Road or Liverpool Road sit beside heavy, constant traffic, and the exhaust leaves a film that dulls the glass. Glass on those frontages is worth cleaning more often than windows facing a quiet side street.

Brush box in the older streets plays a part too. It flowers over much of the year and drops leaf and bark flakes, so street-facing glass under those trees collects its share of debris along with ordinary dust.

Clean glass changes how a room feels. More daylight comes through, and the view out, whether across a bungalow street or from a third-floor balcony, is no longer seen through a grey haze.

Purified water is what makes the result last. It contains no dissolved minerals and no detergent goes on, so it dries spot-free without leaving a soapy layer. Frames and sills are cleaned as part of the job, so grime gathered along timber ledges is removed at the same time.

For strata buildings, working from the ground keeps things simple. The outside of the glass can be done without arranging entry to individual units, and before-and-after photos give the committee a clear record. Interior glass can be added on request for owners or tenants who want both sides done.

Landlords and agents benefit at changeover. With a large share of Ashfield's residents renting, sparkling windows are an easy way to lift how a property photographs and presents to the next tenant.

And because nobody climbs a ladder, garden beds under the windows and the original timber joinery are left undisturbed.