Services · Austin, TX
Window cleaning in Austin, including the parts people skip
Window washing inside and out, plus the tracks and the screens — which are usually what makes a freshly cleaned window look dirty again within a week.
Hard water is the Austin-specific problem
Central Texas water is hard, and sprinkler overspray that dries on glass leaves the dissolved minerals behind. Most of what you are looking at is a deposit sitting on top of the glass, and it does come off — but it takes a hard-water treatment rather than more scrubbing, because ordinary glass cleaner will not touch it.
Left through enough summers the deposit stops being on the glass and starts being in it. Etched glass is physical damage and no cleaning reverses it, which is the argument for dealing with spotting while it is still a deposit. Either way the real fix is pointing the sprinkler head somewhere else.
Tracks and screens
A clean pane above a track full of grit looks like a job half done, because it is. Tracks hold the dust that blows straight back onto the glass the next time the window opens.
Screens hold more than people expect. Cedar in winter and oak in spring both load them, and a loaded screen puts the glass straight back where it started the next windy afternoon.
Window washing inside as well as out
Exterior-only is fine for a first pass but it shows: you end up looking through a clean outer pane at a dirty inner one and the window still reads as grubby.
Interior work is the one part of this that needs somebody home. Say so when you book rather than on the day, because it changes how long the visit takes.
Window cleaning in Austin: questions people ask
Can you remove hard-water stains completely?
Often, if they are caught before the minerals have etched the surface. Once glass is genuinely etched the damage is physical and no cleaning removes it — at that point the honest answer is that the pane would need replacing, and we will say so rather than sell you repeat visits.
Do I need to be home?
Only for interior work. Exterior windows just need a reachable outdoor spigot and unlocked gates.
Do you do second-story windows?
Yes. Most two-story exterior glass around Austin is reachable from a ladder or with a pole system, and which one suits depends on the elevation and what is planted underneath it.
Can you clean the haze between the panes?
No. That haze means the seal on a double-pane unit has failed and moisture is inside the glass itself. Nothing reaches it from either side, so washing the window will not change it — the sealed unit has to be replaced, which is glazing work rather than cleaning.