Does everyone have a window cleaner?

[QueenAstrid]

I have one, but I want to get rid of him because he’s so expensive. Does anyone clean their own windows, and if so how do you do the upstairs ones?

The reason we have a window cleaner is because we can’t get to the outside of the upstairs ones. Not without falling out of the window.

No, I tired but its too much hard work getting one to come out at a set time as we have no rear access so they have to go through the garage to the back of the house. I clean the upstairs windows by leaving out of them. Although can't do that with two of them now as the windows are broken. They are bedrooms though so not bothered

Wow bad typing. I tried a window cleaner, and I clean some of the upstairs ones by leaning out of them.

I don't have a window cleaner. I only have two upstairs windows, I have a telescopic thingy to do them but honestly I rarely bother.

I have a telescopic thingy too, Aldi, £12 approx I think. Stretches right up.

I tend not to bother with the upstairs windows much though.

I get the window cleaner to do gutters and all the windows twice a year. It costs £30 or £35 I think. I can’t remember. He’s due nowish.

I don't.
I don't clean the windows either. The living room front ones (late afternoon sun) get done about once a year, probably autumn when the sun angle shows the dirt up. The conservatory gets done about once a year, ditto the patio doors next to it. The rest have probably been done a handful of times in the 20 years I've lived here.

Yes. When we moved into the house twenty years ago, I used to clean the many, large, old sash windows, but it was difficult and hazardous. Gave up with a sigh of relief when we found a window cleaner. He comes maybe three times a year. I hate having dirty windows

No but my DH gives me a heart attack every couple months when he tackles the exterior of the upstairs windows by leaning out of them. Luckily he has long arms?!

I ditched mine because they were crap! Left the windows all spotty and streaky... I just ignore the and hope no one notices!

Thanks all. I now realise paying my window cleaner £18 a month for a 10 minute job is a ridiculous waste of money and I need to either do them myself with a telescopic thing or just ignore them.

No, I dont bother doing the outsides of the ones I cant reach

We pay £25 for a 6 bedroom with bifolds, there's no way I'm cleaning all those windows and doors.

No, we don't. They get to a certain level of dirtiness and then don't seem to get any worse (except the conservatory roof).

Yes and I love her! She was the only one I could find where she didn’t have a set schedule and she’d come as little or as often as I required. She comes once every two months and charges £13 for a three bed semi and she does the front and back doors too. She also dropped us off some chocolate when we were isolating. If you get a good one they’re worth their weight in gold.

My Window cleaner turns up once a month, he has just put his price up to £7.50 due to high fuel prices.

Yes I do my own and I have loads! I use paper towels and Elbow Grease for glass. Easy peasy and no streaks.

My windows open fully inwards so I can clean the outsides. I don't though. We've been here a year and I think I've done the living room once and the other rooms not at all.

I have one, it costs me £6 for a two bed semi.

Barely have time to clean them inside with everything else I do to keep the place nice. 12 quid once a month is worth it for me.

Yes for the first time at 45. Bigger house. £10 a time for a 3 bed with bi-folds.

I pay £8 a month for 4 bed detached - also have bay window and sliding glass patio doors. He uses a pole system

@TeenMinusTests

No, we don't. They get to a certain level of dirtiness and then don't seem to get any worse (except the conservatory roof).

I think that's definitely true about conservatory roofs. Mine is glass and I've done it a few times over the 18 years we've had it, but more over the last 10 than the first 8. I also cleaned the inside of the roof last year for the first time (I vacuum cobwebs reasonably regularly) and was staggered by the black mold on the pvc of the opening window frame (the rest is wood & wasn't anything like the pvc).

I do. £8 a clean for past 6 years, chalet style property with one window a Velux window which is quite hard to reach. Also cleans all the window frames and sills. Comes approx every 6 weeks.

Cleans gutters too.

We have one but it’s a quarter of your cost monthly so I can justify it to myself, they do outside and i do inside a couple of times a month.

Yes, ours is £15. I don't begrudge it as we wouldn't do it ourselves and everything would be filthy! Same as how we have someone come to cut the grass every week over summer as we are lazy and hate doing it