Window Cleaning in San Mateo, CA

Roughly two fifths of San Mateo's housing is large apartment and high rise units, and only about two fifths is single family detached. That split is unusual here, and it changes the work. A great deal of the glass in this city belongs to an HOA or a building manager rather than a homeowner, sits above a shared walkway, and gets scheduled around other residents. We are happy to quote that work, and we would rather talk about access, scheduling windows, and who is signing off before anyone commits.

The historic districts are a different job again. San Mateo Park was platted in 1902 out of the Howard estate and has period homes on a scale comparable with neighbouring Hillsborough. Baywood, subdivided in 1927, is wooded, lower density, and architecturally distinguished. Both have a lot of original divided light sash, which is slow, hand detailed work rather than anything a pole is going to do well. Hillsdale and Shoreview are the post war ranch expansion and are much more straightforward. Bay Meadows, built on the old racetrack, is new construction with large modern openings.

One thing worth correcting, since several competitors in this city say the opposite: Cal Water's own published water quality reporting for the San Mateo system shows relatively low hardness, and the regional supply is mostly soft Sierra snowmelt from Hetch Hetchy. The white spotting people see on San Mateo glass is far more likely to be sprinkler overspray drying in sun, or salt off the marine layer nearer the Bay, than anything coming out of the tap. It matters because the two problems are fixed differently.