Window cleaning in Sherman Oaks, from the Boulevard to the hills.

Traffic film is the specific culprit, and it behaves differently from ordinary dust. Ventura Boulevard and the 101 and 405 corridors put a fine oily particulate into the air - brake dust, tyre rubber, exhaust residue - and because it is greasy rather than dry it bonds to glass instead of blowing off. Plain water will not lift it, which is why storefront and street-facing glass in Sherman Oaks looks hazy and slightly grey rather than dusty, and why wiping it dry tends to smear it into streaks. Layer on Valley heat baking it onto the pane, hard-water sprinkler overspray on the residential streets, and Santa Ana grit off the hills, and glass here works harder than almost anywhere else in the Valley. We break the oily film with proper solution and hand work rather than a rinse, clean the frames and tracks where the residue collects and then bleeds back down onto clean glass, and on the most exposed elevations Saphir protection makes the next round release far more easily.

Pricing is based on window count, square footage, floor count and accessibility, and Sherman Oaks splits fairly cleanly into two kinds of job. Commercial frontage on Ventura is priced for a short recurring interval on the panes customers look through. A hillside home south of the Boulevard is priced for access - split levels, view glass over a slope, and streets where parking has to be planned. 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, and it is a large part of what we do in Sherman Oaks - the retail frontages, restaurant glass, salon and studio windows, and low-rise office glass along the Boulevard and the side streets off it, on buildings up to three stories. Commercial frontage has different needs from a house and we schedule it that way: early morning or before opening so we are never working through your customers, a recurring interval rather than one-off calls, and consistency so your frontage never becomes the thing a passer-by notices. On a restaurant or a shop the glass is part of how the place reads from the sidewalk, and traffic film on the Boulevard means weekly or fortnightly is often the honest interval for street-facing panes, while the rest of the building is fine on a longer cycle. We will quote it split that way. We carry certificates of insurance for landlords and property managers, and we can bill the frontage and the interior separately if your lease divides the responsibility.

Yes, on buildings up to three stories, which covers essentially all of it. The hillside streets south of Ventura - up toward Mulholland, and the canyons running off Beverly Glen and Coldwater - are a different job from the flats, and the difference is access rather than height. These are homes with view walls facing away from the street, glass hanging over a slope or a pool, split levels that are one story at the front door and three at the back, and driveways too steep or too narrow to work from. We walk the property before quoting so the price reflects the real job, use water-fed poles from stable ground where the reach allows and proper ladder work with fall protection where it does not, and we tell you plainly if a particular pane is not safely reachable for us. Parking is worth mentioning when you book - several of these streets have none, and knowing in advance changes the crew and equipment we send.

It splits fairly cleanly by exposure, and the split saves you money. Street-facing glass near Ventura or a freeway corridor needs quarterly at a minimum because traffic film is relentless and it bonds; commercial frontage on the Boulevard is often better weekly or fortnightly on the panes customers actually look through. Residential glass set back on the quieter streets is usually fine two or three times a year, with a pass after the spring pollen and another after the first serious Santa Ana. Hillside homes south of the Boulevard sit closer to quarterly because canyon dust behaves like the Hills rather than the flats. We would rather put your exposed elevations on the short interval and everything else on a longer one than blanket the whole property - it costs you less and the result looks the same, which is the only version of this that keeps a customer for years.

Yes, with the same distinction we hold everywhere. Pressure washing on our menu means hard surfaces - driveways, walkways, patios, pool decks and hardscape - water only, at a pressure matched to what the surface can take. In Sherman Oaks that matters twice over: the long flat driveways in the flats hold oil and traffic residue that needs real work rather than a rinse, and the older concrete and stone on the hillside streets is exactly what gets ruined by someone using maximum pressure on everything. Building exteriors are a separate service - our Exterior Facade Wash matches the method to your stucco, siding or brick, using soft washing or brush work rather than force, because water driven behind a wall is a repair bill and not a clean house. Booking glass and hard surfaces together saves a second visit, and there is a bundle discount when you do.