Window cleaning in Shrewsbury, from £18
I am Jack, I have been cleaning windows across Shropshire since 2011, and TD Exterior Cleaning is based here in Shrewsbury, SY3 6AP. Pure water, nothing leaned against your house, and the frames, sills and doors done every visit.
What pure water actually is, and why it leaves no spots
Every window I clean in Shrewsbury is reached from the ground with a carbon pole. The soft brush does the agitating and the water does the rinsing, and that only works because of what is not in the water.
Tap water carries dissolved minerals: calcium, magnesium, sodium and whatever else it picked up on the way to your kitchen. You cannot see them while the water is on the glass, but when the pane dries the water evaporates and the minerals stay put.
The white haze and drying streaks people blame on a rushed job are usually not dirt at all, they are the water itself, left behind. A traditional window cleaner gets round that by drying the pane with a cloth or a blade before it can dry on its own.De-ionised water skips the problem rather than chasing it. It goes through, in order:
- A sediment filter
- Carbon
- A reverse osmosis membrane
- A resin vessel that strips out the last of the charged particles
What comes out reads at or near zero on a TDS meter, which is the gauge for total dissolved solids. Water that pure wants to pick something up, so it lifts dirt off the glass and holds it in suspension, then rinses away and evaporates leaving genuinely nothing.
No detergent goes near it either. Soap has to be removed, and the part that never quite comes off is a faint tacky film that dust and pollen land on the same afternoon. With nothing on the surface to hold them, the finish stays right for longer.
- Glass, frames, sills, rubber seals and your front and back doors are brushed and rinsed on every visit, in the price
- No minerals, no residue, no cloth marks: the glass dries itself clear
On white uPVC the frames are the part people actually notice, since the grey tidemark along the bottom of a frame is what makes a house look neglected even when the glass is clear.
Two Shrewsburys, two different window jobs
Shrewsbury is really two towns for a window cleaner, and the glass tells you which one you are standing in.
| Where | What is on the house | What it needs from me |
|---|---|---|
| The centre: Town Walls, Belle Vue | Georgian frontages and timber framing: tall, narrow-fronted, often three storeys, with sash bars, old putty and paintwork that has taken a fair few winters | Nothing leaned against it. A pole and brush touch the surface and nothing else, with no ladder foot on a narrow pavement and nobody on a sill. I keep the water moving on old timber and work the bars and the putty line, because on a sash it is the bars that hold the muck. |
| Radbrook, Sutton Farm, Bicton, Copthorne, Monkmoor, Meole Brace, Shelton, Bayston Hill | uPVC, render, wide picture windows, and more often than not a conservatory sat in front of the back elevation | The pole goes over the conservatory roof instead of anyone climbing onto it, and the tall panes above a rear extension get done from the lawn. |
What makes them dirty is different too, which is why two Shrewsbury homes of the same size can honestly need two different rounds.
| Where the house sits | What lands on the glass |
|---|---|
| Main approach roads into town | Road film: a fine oily grey of exhaust soot, brake dust and rain spray that bonds to glass and does not rinse off in a shower. It shows as a dull sheen that never quite clears, and wants regular attention rather than an occasional heavy clean. |
| Tree-lined avenues | A heavy load of pollen and sap in late spring that lands on warm glass and bakes on, plus lime and sycamore drip that dries hard on sills and painted timber |
| A quiet estate road, set back | Neither, in any quantity |
What it costs here, and what moves the figure
Plenty of window cleaners will not put a number on a page. Here is mine.
£18minimum Window cleaning starts at £18, and £18 is my minimum charge, so no window round comes in under it. A small terrace with a handful of windows sits on that minimum, and it climbs from there with the property.
What moves it:
- How much glass there is, and over how many storeys and elevations
- Extras on the building: a conservatory, French doors, a porch, a glazed extension
- Access: whether a pole and hose can get round the back without a fight
- How bad it is, since a house left a long while takes real work on the first visit
- How often you want it: an 8-weekly round costs roughly 15% more per clean than 4-weekly, the longer gap giving road film and pollen time to bond hard to the glass
The instant quote on this site will give you a figure in about a minute. Whatever it says, I confirm the price with you before I start, and it does not move afterwards.
I am fully insured for domestic and commercial work, and rated 5.0 on Google from 46 reviews, plus 169 recommendations on Facebook.Blades and scrapers, and why old Shrewsbury glass never forgives them
The damage I get asked about most in this town is not dirt, it is scratches. Old glass is soft: the cylinder and early float glass in the Georgian and Victorian houses round the centre carries a fine surface skin that marks if you attack it.
| What does it | What happens |
|---|---|
| A metal blade or scraper dragged over paint flecks, mortar splash or hard-water spotting | It takes the dirt off and a little of the surface with it. You rarely see it on the day, you see it the first time low winter sun catches the pane, and scratched glass cannot be polished back. On a sash light or a leaded panel, replacing the pane is not a five minute job either. |
| Grit: sand or masonry dust under anything pulled across dry glass | It behaves like fine abrasive paper. That is why the glass gets flooded first and brushed second, never the other way round, and why the brush goes back into clean water before the next window rather than carrying half a driveway with it. |
| Ladders | Leaned against render, guttering or lead flashing they leave their own marks behind, on top of everything else that can go wrong up one. It is the reason everything here is done from the ground. |
| Dirty frames | A clean pane in a green sill reads as a job somebody rushed, so on my rounds the frame is part of the clean rather than something you have to ask for. |
While I am set up outside
If I am already there with the water on, the rest of the outside is easier to get done at the same time and saves me coming back out to you separately.
£60from The one that comes up most on the Shrewsbury estates is the conservatory roof. Those panels sit almost flat, are shaded by the house for a good part of the day, and green over long before anyone notices, because you look up through them from underneath.
Doing the roof on the same visit as the windows means it looks right from the garden as well as from the sofa.Everything else, price and page:
- Gutter clearing, from £55. Gutter clearing in Shrewsbury
- Fascias and soffits, from £60.
- Driveways and patios, £3.50 per m², plus £1.50 per m² to brush kiln-dried sand back into block paving joints. Driveway and patio cleaning
- Solar panels, £6 a panel. Solar panel cleaning
- Roof soft washing, from £250, at low pressure, never a jet wash. Why that is, on the roof page
Other cleaning I do in Shrewsbury
Window cleaning in Shrewsbury: your questions
Do you still clean when it is raining?
Yes. The water is rinsed off rather than dried with a cloth, so a shower afterwards makes no difference, and rain carries no minerals to spot the glass. High wind and hard frost are different: I would rather move you than wave a pole about in a gale, and you get a message and a new date.
Am I tied into anything if I start a round?
No contract, no account to open. If you want to skip a visit, change from four weeks to eight, or stop altogether, just tell me and that is the end of it. Nothing is taken automatically.
Do I need to be at home when you come?
No. As long as there is a way round to the back and the side gate is not bolted, I can get on while you are at work, and a text before each visit lets you move the car or bring the dog in. If the gate has to stay locked, or there is scaffolding or building work, tell me and I will work round it or come back.
Do you clean commercial premises as well as houses?
Yes. I am fully insured for both, and shopfronts, offices and small business premises around Shrewsbury work the same way as a house: a set frequency, a text before I arrive, and the frames and doors done as part of it. Give me the address and I will price it properly.
What happens if you notice something wrong while you are working?
I tell you. Up close to every pane, I am often the first to spot soft putty, a slipped sash cord, a blown double glazed unit fogged between the panes, or timber starting to go. None of that is my trade to fix, but you are better hearing it from me than finding it in the winter.
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