Window cleaning in Marina del Rey, for glass that lives on the water.

Because it is being worked on constantly from two directions. Salt is the obvious one: marine air carries it inland off the main channel and the basins, it settles on glass as a fine film, and it is hygroscopic - it pulls moisture out of the morning marine layer, so the glass stays faintly damp long after sunrise and holds whatever lands on it. The second is what that damp film collects: fine grit off Admiralty Way and Via Marina, and on balcony glass, salt spray driven up on a windy afternoon. That is why a Marina window can look hazy again in weeks when the same glass inland would still look clean. There is also a maintenance reason to stay on top of it: salt sitting in aluminium and steel frames corrodes the frame and pits the hardware, and frames are far more expensive than cleaning. We rinse and hand-finish the glass, clean the frames and tracks rather than just the pane, and on the most exposed elevations Saphir protection helps the salt film release instead of bonding.

Pricing is based on window count, square footage, floor count and accessibility, and in the Marina one more thing matters: exposure. A sheltered courtyard unit and a channel-facing wall of floor-to-ceiling glass are not the same job, and the exposed elevation is the one that needs attention more often. In HOA and managed communities we quote common-area glass and individual units separately so the billing matches how your community actually splits it. 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, up to three stories - and it is worth being precise about that, because the Marina is really two different kinds of building and we only do one of them well. The townhomes, the low-rise courts, the walk-up condo buildings and the peninsula houses are squarely our work, including the floor-to-ceiling glass and sliders that face the water. The taller towers along the channel are not - that is high-access work requiring rope or lift crews, and we would rather tell you plainly than take the job and subcontract it out of sight. In HOA and managed communities we are set up for how those properties actually run: certificates of insurance on file with your manager, scheduled visits published in advance so residents can clear balconies and unlock sliders, uniformed crews, and one point of contact instead of a different number each time. If you are on a board or managing the property, we can quote common-area glass and individual units separately so the billing matches how your community splits 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.

More often than inland glass, and honestly that is the whole story of maintaining a place near the water. For units with a direct water or channel exposure, quarterly is the interval that keeps glass genuinely clear and, more importantly, keeps salt from sitting in the frames and hardware long enough to do damage. Set back a few blocks from the water, twice a year is usually enough. The elevation matters as much as the address: a west or channel-facing wall of glass will need attention while the sheltered side of the same building still looks fine, and there is no reason to pay to clean both on the same cycle. We will happily quote the exposed elevations quarterly and the rest twice a year. That is a smaller invoice than putting the whole building on the short interval, and it is the right answer for the property.

Usually yes, and it is mostly a scheduling question rather than an equipment one. Most exterior balcony and slider glass on buildings up to three stories we reach from the ground with water-fed poles, or from the balcony itself where there is safe footing, so nobody needs to be home. Interior glass and anything behind a locked slider does need access, which is why we publish the schedule with your manager well ahead and work a building in a set order, so residents know roughly when we will reach their unit rather than waiting all day. We work around furniture and planters rather than moving them, keep water off decks and out of the basin, and on windy afternoons we will move to the sheltered elevation and come back to the exposed one rather than fight the wind and leave streaks behind us.