Window cleaning in Encino, for homes built around the light.

Two things work against glass in Encino, and they compound each other. Sprinkler overspray is the bigger one: Valley water is hard, and every irrigation cycle that reaches a ground-floor window, a slider or a low picture window dries into mineral spotting. Left alone through a few summers, that stops being a film you can wipe and becomes etching in the glass itself. The second is dust. Hot, dry Valley air and Santa Ana winds carry fine grit off the hills and up out of the Sepulveda Basin, and triple-digit afternoons bake it onto sun-facing panes so it bonds rather than sits. The combination is why Encino glass can look neglected six weeks after a good cleaning. We take the mineral deposits off by hand, and on the most exposed glass - the west-facing elevations and anything in the sprinkler line - we apply Saphir hydrophobic protection so the next cycle sheets off instead of drying on. We also point out which heads are actually causing it. Turning one sprinkler eight degrees is cheaper than any service we sell.

Pricing is based on window count, square footage, floor count and accessibility, and in Encino the accessibility part carries real weight. A single-story ranch with sliders is quick work. An estate off Hayvenhurst with two-story entry glass, a wall of glass facing the pool and skylights over the stairwell is a different job, and it is not fair to price them the same. Gated and staffed properties also take coordination we would rather arrange once than improvise each visit. Our minimum service is $250, which covers bringing a fully equipped crew to your door and doing the job properly rather than quickly. You will always have the exact price in writing before anyone starts, and it does not move once you have it. Our instant quote calculator gives you a real number in about a minute.

Yes, on buildings up to three stories, which covers effectively every home on these streets. Encino's estate blocks - Encino Hills, Amestoy Estates, Royal Oaks, and the gated properties off Hayvenhurst and Louise - are full of the details that make a job take longer: two-story entry glass over a tiled foyer, walls of glass facing the pool, clerestory runs above a stairwell, and skylights that have not been touched since the roof was last done. We work these with water-fed poles from the ground where the reach allows, and with proper ladder work and fall protection where it does not. On estate lots the real skill is usually not height, it is care: setting ladders on mature landscaping without crushing it, keeping water and equipment off a pool deck and out of the pool, and protecting stone that spots if you let hard water dry on it. Gated and staffed properties we put on a set recurring schedule so access is arranged once rather than negotiated every visit, and your house manager is not chasing us for a window.

Yes, and it is worth saying what that actually includes, because window cleaning means different things to different companies. Every standard service hand-finishes accessible interior and exterior glass, then the sills, the frames and the hardware, because a spotless pane sitting in a dusty frame still reads as dirty. We finish with a walk-through inspection before we leave - you look at it with us while we are still there with our equipment, not after we have driven away. Deep track cleaning and screen washing are available as add-ons rather than bundled in, so you are not paying for them on a visit that does not need them. Screens in particular are worth doing less often than glass: washing them every single visit shortens their life, and cleaning glass behind a grimy screen is wasted money. If we think an add-on is not worth it on your property this time, we will tell you so.

For most Encino homes, three or four times a year keeps the glass genuinely clear rather than perpetually catching up, and it is the honest answer even though a more frequent plan would earn us more. The reason is specific to this area: sprinkler-driven mineral spotting gets harder to remove the longer it sits, and the goal is to catch it before it etches. If your irrigation reaches the glass, quarterly is worth it. If it does not, and your exposure is mostly wind-blown dust, twice a year is often plenty. Homes with heavy tree cover need a pass after the spring drop and again after the first serious Santa Ana. Estate properties where the glass is part of how the house presents itself - the ones where an entry wall of glass is the first thing a guest sees - usually want quarterly regardless. We would rather put you on the interval your property actually needs and keep you for years than sell you visits you do not need and lose you.

Yes, and we are precise about what that means because the words get used loosely in this trade. Pressure washing on our menu is for hard surfaces - driveways, walkways, patios, pool decks and hardscape - cleaned with water only, at a pressure matched to the surface so we are not driving grit into stone or stripping a sealed finish. Encino's long driveways and big entertaining patios are exactly the surfaces where this shows, and where the difference between the right pressure and too much pressure is permanent. Building exteriors are a different service and a different method: our Exterior Facade Wash uses soft washing, brush work or controlled pressure depending on what your stucco, siding or brick can take, because high pressure on a wall drives water behind the surface and that is a repair, not a cleaning. Booking glass and hard surfaces on the same visit is usually cheaper than two trips, and there is a bundle discount when you do.