Hard-water stain removal in Port Royal.

Port Royal holds the worst salt exposure in Naples and the most glass to show it. Estates off Gordon Pass open onto deep-water canals with the Gulf a channel away, so the spray reaches farther and the bonded film sets faster than it does inland. On the floor-to-ceiling view-walls these homes are built around, even a thin salt deposit reads across the whole pane. We hand-lift it with 0000 steel wool, worked wet on bare glass — slow, careful work matched to the scale of the glass here.

Most of these estates are seasonal second homes run by estate managers, and Port Royal isn't a place anyone cold-knocks. We coordinate through the manager, work to the household's standards, and time the reset so it lands before the owner does. Because so much of this glass is coated or Low-E, we check every wall before any steel wool comes out and use a gentler approach on those panes. And we're honest about the limit: salt that has already etched the surface can't be reversed, so on the most exposed Gulf-facing walls the goal is lifting the deposit before it pits in for good.

After the reset, the only thing that holds Gordon Pass glass is a rhythm that runs whether the house is occupied or empty. Our exterior window cleaning keeps the estate's view-walls crisp on an every-two-month plan through the off-season, timed so they're already clear on arrival. See how the cadence works across Port Royal.