Window Cleaning in Kensington

Kensington's older streets have plenty of character glass. Doncaster Avenue's single-storey Federation and Victorian cottages feature bay windows and decorated timber gables, and its two-storey Victorian terraces add upper-floor windows that face straight onto the street. Bay windows have several angled panes and deep sills that gather dirt in the corners.

The newer stock is mostly apartments. At the 2021 Census, 71.4 per cent of Kensington's occupied dwellings were flats or apartments, and on any floor above the ground the outside of the glass is hard to reach safely from inside. Working from the ground with a water-fed pole avoids ladders against the building and keeps the team off balconies and roofs.

Location brings its own dirt. Windows facing Anzac Parade, with eight lanes of traffic and the L3 light rail, can collect a grey traffic film more quickly than glass on quieter streets. Further in, homes near the figs at Kensington Oval and the mature trees of Fitzpatrick Park pick up pollen and dust on their glass.

Purified water suits all of these. Because it has no minerals, it dries clear on the glass and timber or aluminium frames without leaving spots or a film behind.

Clean windows let more daylight into a home, and in an apartment with windows on only one or two sides, that difference is noticeable. A film of traffic grime or dust takes the edge off the light long before the glass looks obviously dirty.

For period cottages, clean glass shows off the features that make the house. Bay windows and decorative timberwork look their best when the glass is clear, and cleaning the frames and sills along with the glass stops grime collecting in the corners.

Landlords and agents have good reason to keep windows clean too. With more than half of Kensington's homes rented, a property often needs to look its best between tenancies, and clean glass makes a quick, visible difference to how rooms photograph and present.

Using no detergent means no residue left behind to attract dust, so the glass stays clearer for longer. Interior glass can be cleaned on request, so the inside and outside of each pane match.

Before-and-after photos come with every job, which gives owners who live elsewhere a simple record of the work.