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Honest window cleaning for Lydford homes

If the window cleaning at your Lydford property has started looking tired, you're not alone. Granite and exposed render take a hammering from horizontal Dartmoor rain six months of the year.

What we see on Lydford properties

If the window cleaning at your Lydford property has started looking tired, you're not alone. Granite and exposed render take a hammering from horizontal Dartmoor rain six months of the year.

Historic Saxon burh above the Lydford Gorge, which shapes how exterior cleaning here actually plays out. Crews are based 18.9 miles away in PL3, so callouts to Lydford are short.

What good window cleaning looks like here

  1. 1Extra rinse pass on south-westerly elevations because of Lydford's very-exposed air
  2. 2Pole reach calibrated for the typical moorland village layout in EX20
  3. 3Sill drainage holes cleared before the rinse on moorland village properties
  4. 4Lead detail brushed by hand at low pressure on older granite cottages and stone farmhouses
  5. 5Salt-loaded panes pre-rinsed for thirty seconds on very-exposed elevations in Lydford

Materials & methods we'd use here

Most Lydford properties we treat have Dartmoor granite and lime render walls and a natural slate roof. That changes a few of the choices we'd make.

  • Method

    Carbon-fibre poles to 35 ft, sized for the typical moorland village roof line in EX20

  • Method

    Frame and sill cleaned at the same time as the glass on every Lydford visit, no extra line

  • Method

    Pre-visit message the evening before - useful if you're parked tight on local lanes off A386

  • Method

    Schedule reminders auto-sent so Lydford customers never have to chase

Where it usually starts in Lydford

  • Salt film that squeegee work leaves behind on very-exposed elevations in Lydford
  • UPVC frames yellowing where algae has been ignored across granite cottages and stone farmhouses
  • Conservatory roofs darkened by algae - north slope first on moorland village layouts
  • South-westerly glazing in Lydford caked with salt residue - Historic Saxon burh above the Lydford Gorge
  • Reflective film smears appearing on solar glazing across newer Lydford estates

Recent window cleaning in the area

HMO terrace, three bays

Set up on a recurring six-weekly schedule, side-gate access only, single landlord invoice.

Estuary-view conservatory + main glazing

Salt and pollen baked onto south-facing glass — pure water and two passes did it.

1930s semis under sycamore cover

Sap-spotted frames cleaned at the same time as glass; switched owner onto 4-weekly after the first visit.

Things Lydford customers ask us first

Honest recap (Lydford)

window cleaning isn't urgent until it is. Catch it on the way down and the price is small; leave it for a fourth winter and it becomes a project. Lydford weather doesn't slow down for anyone.

Walk-around quote, fixed price, no follow-up phone calls - Lydford

Send a few photos and a EX20 address — we'll come back the same day with a written price for the window cleaning at your Lydford property.