Window Cleaning in San Carlos, CA

Down in the flats, on the tree named streets south of San Carlos Avenue, there is a concentration of 1920s Spanish style cottages, plus a good deal of mid century ranch and some Eichler stock. These are mostly single storey with modest window counts, reachable, and quick. Up in the western hillside neighbourhoods the picture reverses: larger, newer, multi storey construction built to take advantage of the panoramic Bay views, which is to say built with a great deal more glass, most of it high and much of it facing weather.

White Oaks and Howard Park are the oldest parts of the city and now among the most desirable, tree lined and close to downtown. The tree cover is worth mentioning for more than charm. Streets with mature canopy drop steadily onto roofs and into gutters, and they also drop pollen and sap onto glass through the spring, which is the main reason San Carlos homes under trees tend to want three window cleans a year rather than two. Devonshire Canyon is better known for its holiday lights tradition than for anything to do with windows, though a lot of people book a clean before the neighbourhood fills up with visitors in December.

The split in the housing market shows up in the quotes we write. A condo or townhome near downtown and a hillside house with a view are different jobs with genuinely different prices, and it is worth saying so plainly rather than advertising a single number that fits neither.