To think ‘most people’ don’t get their windows cleaned this often?

3DC & we're late 30s

Never had a window cleaner.

Outside gets done (by DH) maybe once a year. It is just always very far down on the priority list! I think they look fine 🤷🏻‍♀️

Window cleaner comes once a month and does, windows, frames and doors. Its only £12 so no problem.

Insides get done at least once a year 😳

@bigblueboots no window cleaner here, never had one. I clean the insides a couple of times a year, and every time wish I did it more often. The outside might be about the same if not a little bit more, same about wishing I did it more often. I can never get them streak free no matter what I do (washing up liquid, wash and use a squeegee blade to remove the water and a cloth to wipe up the excess water. I sometimes buff with kitchen towel.)

Me too!! We must have very clean windows 😅

Every 12 weeks, £15 a pop. We are not particularly house proud!

This is what rain is for

Externally every fortnight, internally weekly.

Amazed by some of the replies, do the spider webs on the outsides not send you scatty? Splash marks from when it’s been raining etc?

We have a separate building that we run our business from too and they are all done on the same basis!

We have lived in our current home 20+ years and always done the same.

What?? Where is that? Ours has just gone up from £8 to £9 and he was very apologetic about that. Six windows, one set of patio doors and a double set of french doors. None of this big long pole kerfuffle - he’s up there on a ladder doing it properly. This is central Scotland.

Having clean windows isn't a waste of money as it does make a difference to the light. Clean half a mucky window and you'll see. Sure you can leave them and think it's fine, I do with a couple that I don't look out of often. Cleaning windows does help preserve the frames and seals as they often get a wash too.

And the insides - easily done with a well wrung out damp cloth. working into those corners and polished off with some vinegar soaked newspaper.

Used to stick my ladders up on a rack on a Robin Reliant van with my buckets in the back. 1980s.

I do mine myself when they need doing and the weather is fine, including sills and facias. Can't understand paying someone else to clean them regularly when more often than not it is going to rain a day or 2 later and get them dirty again.
However, I do appreciate there are some that aren't able to do so or have hard to reach windows, so that's understandable, but not every 2 weeks surely.

6-weekly for me. I really notice the difference when they've been done, the view from my front windows is so much clearer.

I couldn't even do the ground floor ones at the front, the house is up steep steps and I wouldn't be able to reach even standing on the top of a step ladder.

I actually have no idea how often the window cleaner comes. Every couple of months maybe?

I live rurally so do mine after sowing (March) and after harvest ((August) because of the dust. They get a clean inbetween depending on how grubby they look but it’s low on my list of housework tasks tbh

30 year old. 2 bed house, 2 DCs. i clean the inside of them weekly. just booked window cleaner who comes and the end of every month to do the outside. only because i cant reach one side of the upstairs ones due to how they open.

We never get them done. The insides get done every 6 months, the outside its been 3 years at least since we bothered. They're fine. We're not on a busy road and they don't look bad. I see neighbours getting them done regularly and I just think what a waste of money to be honest.

£15, front and back.

As cleaning windows is weather contingent then the ideal of once a month just doesn't really happen.

In reality, a trusted and reliable window cleaner turns up as and when, 8-9 times a year out of the possible 12 works well. Although there's always a chance a salty storm or some marauding birds will muck them up within days.

And there's always a possibility that your windows can be easily cleaned by yourself, depending on how level the ground is, how high your windows are and if you've got any ladders and the inclination to get up them with a damp cloth.

I know about these things having been a window cleaner myself in days gone by.

Is this an English thing? I'm in Ireland and I don't think I know anyone who gets their windows cleaned and have no recollection of ever seeing any neighbours getting them done.

Once a month, front and back for £10. Well worth it.

How much are you all paying for this?

Whenever the window cleaner deigns to turn up. Sometimes every 4 weeks, sometimes every 3 mths!

Mine are never cleaned.

We used to get ours done fortnightly at our last house but our current window cleaner comes monthly.

Three of our windows swivel like that, but not the rest. The downstairs windows need someone with a ladder to get the full length.

I clean mine when I notice they're dirty, which is usually in autumn and springtime.