Window Cleaning in Palo Alto, CA

Greenmeadow, Green Gables, and Charleston Meadows are the clearest single storey Eichler oriented tracts in the city: post and beam construction, floor to ceiling glass walls, interior atriums, radiant floors. Cleaning an Eichler is not the same job as cleaning a conventional house with the same square footage. The glass runs to the floor, so there is no sill to work off and a great deal more surface area. The atrium puts glass on the inside of the house facing open sky, which collects debris no exterior wall would. And post and beam framing means the glazing bars are structural and slim, so edges need hand detailing rather than a fast pull. We price Eichlers by the run of glass rather than by counting window units, because counting units badly understates them.

Professorville, a National Register historic district with early twentieth century architecture, sits at the other end of the range: period sash, wood frames, slow hand work. Crescent Park is character rich single family stock near downtown. Southgate mixes ranch and modern. Stanford University borders the city to the west and is worth naming as a landmark, though it is properly its own unincorporated place adjacent to Palo Alto rather than part of it, which is the kind of detail worth getting right.

The competitive picture here is unusually fragmented. Several of the pages currently ranking for window cleaning in Palo Alto are thin, even where the companies behind them have been operating since the early 2000s. Nobody in this city has written seriously about what cleaning an Eichler glass wall actually involves, which is a strange gap given how much of the housing stock it describes.