Windows and gutters

Window, screen and glass door cleaning

Glass, screens, tracks and sliders, including the ocean-facing salt film that ordinary cleaning puts back within a week.

The method is well understood. Working out how much of it your property needs is the harder half.

How it normally gets spotted

Glass that goes hazy again within days of being cleaned
A permanent film on the ocean-facing glass that no cleaner is touching
Screens grey with salt and sand that dirty the glass as soon as they go back
Etching or spotting on glass in the arc of an irrigation head

The way this is usually tackled

Salt is why island glass never quite comes clean the ordinary way — it draws moisture out of the air, so the film comes back the first humid night. It has to be flooded off rather than wiped, and the screens and tracks have to be done at the same time or they put it straight back. Hard-water spotting from an irrigation head is a separate problem again, and if it has been left long enough to etch the glass, cleaning will not remove it.

$275 – $950

typical range, not a quote for Long Beach Island and the mainland.

Not a quote, and not a judgement about your property. What a job actually costs comes down to height, access, what the surface is made of and how far it has been left — which is why it takes someone standing in front of it.

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Coverage

Where this one applies

Listed by area, because exposure changes noticeably across it.

North end

The north end, where wooded lots hold damp against cedar and nearly every bayfront lot has a dock at the back of it.

Central island

The central island, where houses sit close enough to shade each other and access decides most of the price.

South end

The south end, where the surviving pre-war stock means detail work rather than wall area drives a quote.

Mainland

The mainland side of the causeway, where the load is leaves, needles and iron rather than salt and wind.

Windows and gutters

Gutter clearing, flushing and whitening

Clearing the run, flushing every downspout, and — separately — taking the black tiger-striping off the outside face.

$175 – $500 typical range, not a quote

Cedar, decks and docks

Dock, bulkhead and boat-lift washing

Growth off the decking, the bulkhead cap and the lift frame, worked to the tide and to what is acceptable to put in the bay.

$400 – $1,600 typical range, not a quote