Window & Screen Cleaning

Most Gloucester County homes land between $225 and $650 for exterior windows and screens, depending on window count, and $395 to $1,050 for inside and out. National averages sit around $221 a visit. Your exact number is confirmed in writing by a person before any work starts.

Three things move the price more than anything else: how many windows you actually have, whether they are true divided-light (lots of small panes take real time), and whether ladders can be set safely. Screens are included in our full-service work rather than charged per screen.

See the full table on our pricing page.

A fair market rate is roughly $8 to $16 per window for inside and out, or $4 to $8 for exterior only, with most companies applying a minimum charge of $100 to $250. Anything dramatically below that usually means no insurance, no employees, or a job that will not include screens, sills or tracks.

The honest version: the cheapest quote in your driveway is cheap because something has been taken out of it. Usually it is workers' compensation coverage, or the time it takes to remove and wash screens.

We are not the cheapest company in the county and we explain exactly why on our pricing page.

Exterior glass hand-washed or pure-water cleaned frame to frame, screens removed, washed, dried and re-set in the opening they came from, sills and tracks wiped, and spider webs knocked down around every frame. Interior glass is available on request, with booties on and drop cloths down.

Screens are included in full-service window cleaning rather than sold as a per-screen extra. Clean glass behind a dirty screen is not clean glass, so charging separately for it never made sense to us.

Yes, both, as part of full-service window cleaning. Tracks get vacuumed and wiped, and sills are cleaned rather than left with the dirt line you notice a week later. Many companies charge $1 to $5 per window for this. We do not treat it as an extra.

Yes. Interior glass is an option on any job, and we quote it separately so you can choose. Inside work means booties on every floor, drop cloths under every window, and furniture moved and put back. Plenty of customers do exteriors twice a year and interiors once.

Water run through a filter that strips out every dissolved mineral, then fed up a carbon-fibre pole to a brush head. Because the water is pure, it dries with no spots and no residue — nothing is left behind to dry on the glass. It also lets us reach second-story windows safely from the ground.

Twice a year for exteriors is right for most South Jersey homes — once in late spring after pollen drops, and once in fall. Interior glass is more of a monthly-to-quarterly job as it gets smudged. Homes under heavy tree cover, on well water, or near a main road benefit from a third visit.

That twice-a-year rhythm is exactly what the Seasonal Exterior Care plan is built around, which is the whole reason it exists — almost nobody remembers to book the second one.

Late spring, once the pollen has finished. Washing during the peak oak and pine pollen drop in April and May means the film is back within a week. The second best window is early fall, before the leaves come down and gutters need attention anyway.

Overcast days are actually better than bright sun. Direct sun dries cleaning solution on the glass before it can be squeegeed off, which is the single most common cause of streaks.

Yes. We work exterior glass down to roughly 35°F using cold-weather additives that stop water freezing on the pane. Below that we reschedule rather than risk a poor result or a hazard on your walkway. Winter has one real advantage: no pollen, so the clean lasts noticeably longer.

A standard residential job runs two to four hours. A small home with exteriors only might be ninety minutes; a large home inside and out with screens can take most of a day. We give you a realistic window when we confirm the quote, not an optimistic one.

Almost always one of three things: the glass was cleaned in direct sun so the solution dried before it could be squeegeed, tap water was used and left mineral spots, or the cloth was already dirty. A fourth cause is not streaking at all — it is hard-water etching, which is permanent.

If it is our work and it is streaky, that is what the 48-hour promise is for. Call us and we come back.

Then the first visit is restoration, not maintenance, and we price and describe it that way. Years of build-up, mineral spotting and oxidation on the frames take significantly longer than an annual clean. We will tell you at the quote which one you are buying, and what the realistic result looks like.

Hard water and well-water iron staining is quoted separately, typically $10 to $30 per affected window, because it is a restoration job rather than a cleaning job. We assess it at the quote and tell you honestly whether it will come out fully, partly, or not at all.

This matters in South Jersey. Iron in well water leaves an orange cast that ordinary washing will not lift, and if it has been baked on by sun for years it can etch the glass permanently. We will show you a test patch before you commit to the whole house.

Slightly, and mostly in winter. A heavy film of grime on south-facing glass cuts the solar gain that helps warm a room on a cold clear day. The bigger issue is not efficiency — it is that dirt holds moisture against the seal and the frame, which shortens the life of the window.