Four Reasons to Invest in Gutter Cleaning

Your home is likely the largest purchase you’ll make, and it’s essential to keep up with routine maintenance. From gutter cleaning to HVAC inspections, flushing the hot water heater, aerating the lawn, and draining sprinkler systems, the chore list teems with seasonal, annual, and even monthly chores. It often feels never-ending and even overwhelming. However, skipping maintenance chores can lead to costly issues.

Gutters do more than just catch debris. Gutters protect your home from water damage that’s expensive to repair. Routine gutter cleaning eliminates clogs and keeps the water flowing. If you ignore the gutter cleaning, the consequences can be costly.

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What to Expect on the Day of Your Window Cleaning

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You booked the window cleaning appointment—now what? It’s normal to have questions when hiring a team to come to your home for window cleaning. When hiring any service professionals, it’s less stressful to know what to expect before the team arrives. With United Window Cleaning, you’re in good hands from start to finish. To help ease your mind, here is what you can expect on the day of your window cleaning appointment. Read more »

Five Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Window Cleaning Company

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Hiring professionals for certain tasks like window cleaning is smart. It doesn’t matter if your home has 10 windows or 30, window cleaning is a chore and the pros can get it done better, faster, and safer. When hiring a window cleaning company there are five important questions to ask.

1. What Services Do You Offer?

If you don’t know exactly what a company has to offer, then you might miss out on services that could really benefit your home and living space. Often it’s possible to find answers to this question via the company’s website. However, chatting with a representative can help provide a better understanding of the specifics of each service offered. Ask if deep-cleaning of window sills and cracks are included or if skylights can be done as well.
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Top Tips for Effective Spring Cleaning

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Writer and humorist Erma Bombeck once said, “My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance.” Wouldn’t it be great if a room would just clean itself?

Cleaning, housework, chores, the honey-do list—whatever you choose to call it, the tasks need to get done. Some cleaning tasks seem to never be finished, like dishes and laundry, while others are seasonal. Traditionally, spring cleaning is the big clean each year. After a long winter season, there’s something satisfying about sweeping out the dust and shining up those windows.

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Three Benefits of Hiring Out Your Window Cleaning

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As the new year begins to pick up steam, it’s time to start thinking about scheduling those home chores we all love to postpone. Let’s face it—we’ve all spent more time at home during the last several months and while you may have ticked some home improvement jobs off the list, there are ones that need to be done every year.

Windows are like gutters; both need regular attention. Fortunately, there are professionals that can help, and there are three specific benefits to hiring out window cleaning each year.

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7 Windows You Might Be Forgetting to Clean

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Most rooms in your home have at least one to two windows, some may have three or more. They allow in fresh air plus natural light while providing a way to enjoy the outdoor scenery. These are the windows that you make the time to have cleaned regularly. But what about the other windows and glass surfaces in your home or business?

Everyday we walk past dozens of glass expanses that collect dust, dirt, and grime. These surfaces require regular cleaning as well. We know that regular window cleaning can help increase the window’s life and even add value to your home.
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Can Regular Window Cleaning Increase Home Value?

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The average two bedroom, two bathroom house has approximately 12 to 18 windows. Whether your home has more or less, the chore of window cleaning is something every homeowner has to consider, and then do. Major home chores, from power washing the privacy fence to pruning trees, and gutter clean-out take time and energy. Window cleaning is one of these major chores as well, and it’s one that can’t be overlooked. Read more »

Save Time by Hiring Out Certain Chores

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We’re given 24 hours in each day, 168 hours per week. That translates to 8,760 hours every year. What if you could take some of that time and use it for something you truly enjoy? It’s
possible to save time by hiring out certain chores, which then creates more opportunities to do the things you love.

As a homeowner there’s a never-ending list of chores that need to be done. Some are seasonal, some are more Read more »

Maintenance Musts for Your Commercial Building

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Every commercial building has maintenance requirements that can’t be ignored. It doesn’t matter if your building is multi-level, free-standing, or part of a complex, commercial structures need a combination of preventative and routine maintenance to reduce the general wear and tear on the exterior, major systems/equipment, and interior spaces used/occupied by employees, staff, and guests/customers.

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Brick exteriors require repointing (tuck pointing) every 25 to 30 years, or about every 50 years, depending on how Read more »

Do Regular Window Cleanings Increase Window Longevity?

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Does regular window cleaning actually increase the lifespan of your home’s windows? In short, yes, absolutely.

Window glass has a porous surface that is affected by the elements. Residential windows are exposed daily to a variety of contaminants, both from the outside and inside of the home. It’s essential to have your home’s windows cleaned regularly, at least twice a year as general maintenance. Allowing dirt, grime, and other contaminants to linger on the Read more »