Window Cleaning in Turramurra

Turramurra glass is defined by where the good windows are: on the downhill elevation, facing the valley.

Those panes sit directly beneath blackbutt, blue gum and angophora, so sap and honeydew drip onto them from overhead and land as sticky spotting that has to be dissolved rather than wiped. Spring adds a heavy pollen load off the surrounding forest, which bonds when damp and smears when dry.

The suburb's rainfall works against the glass rather than for it. More rain on a pane already carrying pollen and sap simply spreads the film and dries it in streaks, and the high humidity in the gully keeps everything on the surface damp for longer.

Webs are constant in this environment, rebuilt in window corners and along frames within days along with the debris caught in them.

Access is the real constraint. A house that is single storey at the street is frequently two or three storeys at the back, above a slope, a pool or bushland where no ladder can safely stand. That is precisely where the largest windows are.

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

The windows worth cleaning in Turramurra are the ones nobody can get to, and that is the whole practical case.

On a block that falls away, the gully-facing glass is two or three storeys above the ground at the rear, over a slope or a pool. It is unreachable from a domestic ladder and genuinely dangerous to attempt, which is why it is so often the dirtiest glass on an otherwise well-kept house. Reaching it safely from the ground is the service.

What you get back is the reason the house was built facing that way. A wall of glass looking down a bushland gully, carrying sap spotting and pollen film, returns a diminished version of the outlook, and because it accumulates gradually most people stop noticing.

There is a maintenance case underneath. Windows in permanent shade grow a green film on frames and in sill drainage channels, and blocked sill drainage is how water gets inside a frame.

Rain will not do this job, since in this suburb it mostly redistributes the film rather than removing it.