Window Cleaning in Newport, Shropshire

Newport in Shropshire, not the one in Wales

If you have got here after wading through results for the wrong Newport, you are in the right place now. This is Newport in Shropshire, the market town, not the city in south Wales. Search results mix the two up constantly, and so do quote forms, supplier maps and the national outfits that say they cover you and then never turn up.

I'm Jack. I clean windows across Shropshire and have done since 2011, domestic and commercial, fully insured, working on my own. That last bit matters here: the person who gives you the price is the person who knocks the round out, so Newport is a regular run rather than somewhere I drive out to when a big job lands. Whether you are in the middle of town or out at Edgmond, Lilleshall, Church Aston, Chetwynd Aston, Forton, Gnosall, Sambrook or Woodseaves, you are on a round I already do.

Everything is cleaned with a water-fed pole and pure water from the ground, so nothing leans on your house. Glass, frames, sills and both doors, every visit, from £18.

Town frontages and village properties are two different jobs

Newport is really two jobs in one town. In the middle of town you get period frontages standing straight onto the pavement: tall sash windows, glazing bars, painted timber, stone or rendered sills, and frequently nowhere to stand anything on the ground even if I wanted to. A pole reaches up the face of a building from wherever I can get to, so a narrow frontage, a car parked outside or a bin store down the side stops being the problem it is for a ladder.

Those older windows also reward doing properly. Georgian and leaded bars hold water in the corners, so the glass gets brushed and rinsed pane by pane rather than swept over in one pass, and the sills get the same attention as the glass does. Painted timber shows every drip run it is given, which is a large part of why I do not want detergent anywhere near it.

Out past the town it changes completely. Village and farm properties around Edgmond, Lilleshall, Church Aston, Chetwynd Aston, Forton, Sambrook, Woodseaves and over towards Gnosall tend to be wider, lower and far more exposed, with more elevations to walk round, a conservatory or a porch on the back, and open fields on at least one side. That glass takes field dust in spring, harvest dust in late summer and a steady film off the wind the rest of the year, and it is nearly always the elevation nobody sees from the drive that goes worst.

It is also why there is no flat rate per house. The number of windows, the number of elevations and how easily I can get right round the outside all move the figure, and I would sooner look at the property than guess at it.

Pricing for the town and the outlying villages

Most window cleaners want you to ring for a price. Mine are on the page.

• Window cleaning from £18. That £18 is also my minimum charge for a window clean.
• What moves it: how many windows there are, the size of the property, how many elevations, how easy the access is round the back, and how long it has been since they were last done.
• Four-weekly is the standard round.
• Eight-weekly works out roughly 15% more per clean than four-weekly, since the glass has had twice as long sitting under field dust and road film before I get to it.
• The price is confirmed with you before I start, whatever the starting figure suggests. No number appearing afterwards that you did not agree to.

If you would rather not wait on a call back, the instant quote tool on this site will price your property in a minute or two. Otherwise call or text me on 07854 086820 and I will give you a straight answer.

A pole is only as good as the filtration behind it

This is the part of the job you cannot judge from the pavement, and it is where cheap window cleaning quietly goes wrong.

Tap water carries dissolved minerals. Push it through a pole unfiltered and you have effectively sprayed the windows with something that dries into a white haze in every corner and along every glazing bar, worse than the dirt it replaced. Filter and de-ionise it properly and what comes out is so pure it is actively trying to pick things up. That is what actually does the cleaning. The brush loosens the muck, the pure water carries it off the glass, and because there is nothing dissolved in that water, there is nothing left behind to dry into a mark.

So I rinse the glass, walk away and leave it wet, which throws people the first time they see it. Wiping it off with a cloth would put marks back on. Left alone it dries clear.

There is no detergent involved at any stage either, so nothing is sitting on the glass afterwards waiting to catch the next dry spell's dust. And if you have had a pole man before and the glass dried spotty, that is the filtration behind his pole, not your windows and not your bad luck. Ladders bring a different set of problems on old sills and soft ground, which the Church Stretton page goes into properly.

Frames, sills and both doors are done every visit as standard rather than sold on as an extra. You notice a green frame long before you notice the glass inside it, so doing one and leaving the other would waste half the visit.

The rest of the outside, while I am there

Windows are the regular visit, but I do the whole exterior, and the one that genuinely belongs with a window round is the conservatory roof. It sits at too shallow a pitch for rain to scour it, so green film and leaf mulch settle on the panels and take the light out of the room underneath. From £60, done from the ground on the same visit as your windows, which saves you booking a separate day for it. If the house roof needs attention as well, that is a low-pressure soft wash and never a jet wash, for reasons worth reading on the roof cleaning page.

• Gutter clearing from £55 · gutter clearing in Newport
• Fascias and soffits from £60
• Conservatory roof from £60
• Roof soft wash from £250 · soft washing
• Drives and patios £3.50 per m², plus £1.50 per m² to brush kiln-dried sand back into block paving · drives and patios
• Solar panels £6 a panel · solar panel cleaning

Adding any of it to a window visit saves a second trip out, which is worth doing. The price is the price either way though. I do not dress a bundle up as a discount.