Window Cleaning in Chesapeake

A regular exterior round on an average house: 20-40 minutes. A first clean or full inside-and-out with frames, sills and tracks: 2-4 hours depending on window count. Window count drives everything — count your panes before calling and quotes get much more accurate.

No — rain itself is fairly clean; the spots you see after rain come from dirt already sitting on the glass. Pure-water-cleaned windows usually stay clear through rain, which is why professional rounds run all year. Most round cleaners offer a re-clean if windows genuinely spot within a day or two of the visit — ask about the policy.

Ordinary cleaning won't remove etched mineral staining from sprinklers, leaking gutters or years of run-off — it needs dedicated hard-water removal products or fine polishing, priced as a restoration add-on per pane. Test one window first: if staining has etched into the glass, no chemical fixes it fully. Fix the water source (gutter, sprinkler aim) or the stains return.

Exterior frames and sills — usually yes with water-fed pole cleaning, since the brush does them anyway. Interior tracks, screens and deep frame scrubbing are typically add-ons. Ask specifically: 'glass only' vs 'glass, frames and sills' is the most common source of disappointment. First cleans should always include frames — dirty frames drip onto clean glass with the first rain.

Typically $4-$14 per pane, with whole-house jobs averaging $150-$300 for an average home and inside-and-out service at the top of that range. Screens (roughly $1-$5 each) and tracks are common add-ons. Two-story homes price meaningfully higher than single-story.

Usually not by default. Screen cleaning runs about $1-$5 per screen, and storm windows can effectively double the pane count — which is why quotes that skip the question balloon on site. Count your windows, screens and storms before calling and ask for an itemised all-in price.