When you leave for the summer, the house gets a home watch, the AC gets a schedule and the shutters get checked. The windows usually aren't anyone's job, and summer is when they take the worst of it.
What a summer does to the glass
Salt keeps landing on the glass whether you're there or not. Summer humidity keeps it going damp and dry, so it spreads and catches dust. Afternoon storms don't rinse it off; they move it around and add roof runoff. In between, the sun bakes each layer on harder.
Tracks fill up too: leaves, bugs and grit sitting damp in the channel all season. A track cleaning on the first visit back clears it out.
Watch the sprinklers
Your irrigation runs all summer with nobody around to notice that one head has turned and now hits a window a few times a week. Five months of that is the bonded white spotting in our hard-water stains guide. Owners who come back to one badly spotted wall almost always find a sprinkler aimed at it.
Before you leave
- Watch every irrigation zone run once and turn any head that reaches the windows.
- Book a cleaning close to your leave date, so the summer starts from clean glass.
- Have the screens cleaned or taken down on the most exposed sides. Screens hold salt and moisture against the glass.
- Leave gate codes and access notes with everyone who works on the house while you're gone.
- Walk the whole outside of the house, including the side you never look at. That's usually where the problem window is.
Home watch won't catch it
Home watch is there for leaks, AC failures, storm damage and open doors. Window film builds a little each week and never looks like an emergency, so it doesn't get flagged. The glass needs its own schedule, like the pool and the lawn.
You don't need to be here
Exterior window cleaning happens outside, from the ground, so nobody needs to be home. We sort out gate codes and community access once, and every visit after that runs on schedule. We text when we're done, with before-and-after photos.
Payment doesn't need you here either. A card goes on file by secure link when you start, and it's charged after each visit. If a window isn't right, we come back and fix it, whether you notice in November or your home watch mentions it in July.
A simple summer schedule
A common rhythm: one visit in April as you close up, a couple over the summer, and one in October so the glass is done before you land. Skip the summer visits and November is often a by-hand hard-water stain removal job instead of a regular clean.
Set up exterior window cleaning before you leave and give us your return date. We'll handle the rest.
