Window Cleaning in Chatswood

Window cleaning in Chatswood follows the same split as everything else in the suburb.

Around the centre, ongoing development means fine cement and site dust in the air more or less permanently. It settles on glass as an even film and, being fine and slightly abrasive, works into the surface rather than sitting loosely on top. The walk-ups, townhouses and towers here have large glazed areas and balcony doors facing it, and upper-level glass on a strata building is rarely cleaned because ladder work over common property is usually restricted.

West of the highway the homes are built to look at the garden, which means large windows and sliding doors on the elevations under the turpentine and blue gum canopy. Those panes take sap and honeydew drip from directly overhead, plus spring pollen, both of which are sticky when damp and smear rather than wipe off. Aluminium sliding door tracks collect the same material along with fine grit.

Because these blocks fall away to the west, a house that is single storey from the street is frequently two or three storeys at the back, over a terrace or retaining wall.

Water-fed poles reach it from the ground, and the purified water dries clear with no spotting.

In Chatswood the obstacle to clean windows is usually not the dirt, it is reaching them.

On the strata buildings, ladder work over common property paths, garden beds and carpark aprons is generally restricted and rarely safe, which is why upper-level glass on so many blocks goes uncleaned for years. Reaching three storeys from the ground with a water-fed pole removes the access problem and the work-at-heights exposure the building would otherwise carry, and for an owners corporation clean, evenly finished glass across a whole facade is one of the cheaper ways to lift how a building presents.

On the freestanding homes the constraint is the topography. The best glass is on the downhill elevation, two or three storeys above a terrace or retaining wall, which is exactly where a domestic ladder cannot be safely footed. That glass is usually the reason the house was built the way it was.

There is a maintenance point on the tracks too. Grit and organic matter in aluminium sliding door tracks stiffens them and holds moisture in the drainage slots, and that becomes a repair rather than a clean.

Purified water leaves no detergent film for construction dust to key into.