Window cleaning in the Hollywood Hills, for homes built around the view.

Hillside houses collect everything the canyon moves around. Dry canyon slopes shed fine dust constantly, and the daily up-canyon and down-canyon air movement carries it straight onto glass rather than past it. Add the road grit lifted off narrow streets by every passing car, pollen and eucalyptus and pine drop in spring, and a marine layer that sits in the canyons overnight and leaves a faint damp film for all of it to stick to. That is why the walls of glass these houses are built around - the whole point of the house, the reason you are up there - can go from clear to veiled in a matter of weeks. After a Santa Ana it can happen overnight. There is also a harder problem specific to the Hills: many of these homes have original mid-century single-pane glass with decades of accumulated mineral and smoke haze baked in, and that is a restoration conversation, not a cleaning one. We will tell you which of your glass will come back to clear and which will not, before you pay for it.

Pricing is based on window count, square footage, floor count and accessibility, and in the Hills accessibility usually decides the number. It is rarely the height - it is whether there is safe footing beneath the glass, whether the view wall hangs over a slope, a deck or a pool, and whether the street allows a crew to park and work at all. That is why we walk a hillside property before quoting rather than pricing it off a photo. 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.

On buildings up to three stories, yes - and in the Hills the real problem is almost never the height, it is what is underneath the window. A hillside home is often three levels on the downhill side, with the view glass hanging over a slope, a deck, a pool, or a drop with nowhere to safely stand a ladder. That is a footing and access problem, and it is solved by walking the property first rather than by bringing bigger ladders. We use water-fed poles from whatever stable ground or deck exists, proper ladder work with fall protection where footing allows, and on the genuinely unreachable glass we tell you it is unreachable for us instead of improvising something unsafe on your property. We also plan for the streets: many Hills addresses have no parking, a single-lane approach, or a driveway too steep to work off. Tell us the access when you book and we will bring the right setup and the right size crew, rather than arriving and discovering it.

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.

Quarterly is the interval that actually matches this environment, and for once that is not the upsell answer - it is because canyon dust never stops and the glass is the whole reason the house exists. If your view glass is the room, letting it go six months undoes the architecture. That said, we would rather split it than blanket it: the view elevation quarterly and the street side twice a year is a smaller invoice and the right call for most Hills homes, because the side you never look through does not need the same attention as the side you look through every morning. Homes under heavy eucalyptus or pine want a pass after the spring drop regardless. And if you entertain, the honest advice is to book around your calendar rather than a fixed date - glass cleaned the week before matters more than glass cleaned on a schedule that happens to fall the week after.

Yes, and on hillside properties this is often the work that makes the bigger visual difference. Our pressure washing covers hard surfaces only - driveways, walkways, stairs, patios, pool decks and hardscape - with water alone at a pressure matched to the surface, which matters enormously on the Hills because so much of it is decades-old concrete, stone or tile on a slope where too much pressure does permanent damage and creates a slip hazard. The long exterior stair runs that so many of these houses have are exactly the surface where careful work shows. Building exteriors are separate: our Exterior Facade Wash matches the method to the surface, soft washing or brush work rather than blasting, because forcing water into a hillside wall is how you end up with a repair. Doing glass and hardscape on one visit saves you a second trip up a canyon road, and there is a bundle discount for it.