Window Cleaning in Burlingame, CA

Burlingame Terrace was platted in 1905, and growth accelerated after the 1906 earthquake pushed San Francisco residents south along the rail line. That first wave left Craftsman and vernacular homes from the 1910s and 1920s in the older core, followed by Tudor and Mediterranean revival through the mid 1920s. All of it means wood frames and divided light sash: slow, hand detailed work where a pole would be the wrong tool and a hurried pull leaves lines at every glazing bar.

Then at the north end of town, in the Mills Estate neighbourhood, there are roughly a hundred Eichler mid century modern homes built between the 1940s and 1960s, with glass walls and clerestory windows. Two blocks of the same city can therefore hold a 1915 Craftsman with thirty small panes and a 1958 Eichler with a single wall of glass, and those are opposite jobs. We quote them differently and we would rather explain why than average the two into a number that suits neither.

For commercial work, Burlingame Avenue is the landmark downtown retail and dining corridor and California Drive is the secondary one. Storefront glass on Burlingame Avenue is a different rhythm again, frequently early morning before trade, often weekly or fortnightly rather than seasonal.