Polperro window cleaning, done properly

What we see on Polperro properties

When neighbours start asking who did your window cleaning, that's usually a Polperro homeowner mid-project with us. Working harbour village in a tight Cornish combe, which shapes how window cleaning on painted lime render and stone and Cornish slate actually plays out around PL13.

Lime render and slate need the softer end of the pressure range to keep their finish. We tend to batch Polperro bookings with jobs in Looe the same week. We batch Polperro bookings with looe runs along A387.

Working-at-height planning is done before the visit, so the right access equipment arrives with the crew. Kiln-dried sand goes back into block-paving joints on the same visit once the surface is dry enough. Sealer is optional on stone, and we'll usually recommend skipping it unless the finish specifically wants it. Windows are usually the entry-point job for new customers, and everything else follows on from that first visit. Parking is where a lot of jobs go slow, so we ask about it up front rather than turn up and hope. Second-home owners tend to book us on annual visits with a photo pack rather than being on site. The kit gets pressure-tested weekly, which is boring but it's why we haven't had a rig failure on a customer job. Our repeat rate for annual bookings sits north of eighty percent, which is where our diary planning starts. Sub-zero mornings we wait until 10am to start softwash — the biocide simply doesn't work well below freezing. Pressure washing patios always finishes with a lawn edge tidy so borders don't end up sanded. Windows include the frames, the sills, the trickle vents and the cill drain holes, always. Downpipe inlets are water-tested before we leave, not just visually checked. Every job sheet lists the crew, the start time, the finish time and the litres of water used. Every softwash job has a pre-clean pH check on the render surface to keep dilution honest. Long-run gutters get flushed from both ends after clearing, not just one end.

Where it usually starts in Polperro

• Hard-water spotting on glass after DIY washes - quickly visible on harbour town bay fronts - across Cornish slate - a job we tend to batch with neighbouring runs.
• Salt film that squeegee work leaves behind on very-exposed elevations in Polperro - on whitewashed fishermen's cottages stock - the reason we keep this round on a tight schedule.
• Sash recesses and lead detail filling with cobweb and grit on older harbour town stock - at very exposed exposure - a pattern we see through the shoulder seasons.
• Conservatory roofs darkened by algae - north slope first on harbour town layouts - in the Cornwall Council patch - typically half a day, sometimes a full day if access is tight.
• Velux and dormer windows uncleaned since fitting on harbour town properties - 22.4 miles from PL3 - one of the calls we get most in the wetter half of the year.

Other Cornwall spots we work in regularly

FAQs we get from Polperro homeowners