Exterior window cleaning in Cape Coral.

Cape Coral has more navigable canals than any city on earth, and a Gulf-access canal behind the house means moving brackish water a few feet from the glass every hour of every day. The homes here are built to look at it — wide rear window walls, pocketing sliders onto the pool cage, second-story view glass over the dock. That is the entire appeal, and it is also why the rear elevation of a Cape Coral home hazes over two or three times faster than the street side does.

Our exterior window cleaning works that rear wall the way it needs to be worked. Large panes are flooded rather than wiped, because glass that wide cannot be toweled evenly without leaving marks, and the deionized rinse carries no minerals so the sheeting water dries clear on its own. The tall second-story canal glass in Cape Harbour and Tarpon Point is reached from the ground with the water-fed pole, so nothing gets leaned against stucco or dragged across a paver deck.

Because most homes here are built around a screened pool cage, the glass is only part of the picture — the same salt load sits on the cage and the deck, which is what our pool deck cleaning and soft washing are for. Homes on the Gulf-access canals usually land on every two months; the freshwater-canal streets often hold fine at a slower rhythm. More on the area in Cape Coral.