To think that neighbours could pick up the bill?

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We have moved house about 5 month or so and we don’t know our neighbours very well as yet. We all live in detouched houses, but one not very far from another.
A week ago I had a professional window cleaners and the whole or house was washed.
Then Last weekend a van arrived at the neighbours drive way and started jet washing their pavement. As a result all four our ground floor windows were very dirty.. I have found this only after that cleaner has left. So I went to the neighbours and said I have recently paid for a professional window cleaner to wash our windows, and the windows are dirty again. They gave me a leaflet to contact the cleaner, which I did. I have called him and asked him to come back to clean the windows he has dirtied. He said he will come back in a couple of days. Guess what, he never materialized..
So I went to the neighbors again. Explained that their pavement cleaner is ignoring me and if they could contact him. They said they will. They never did apologize, nothing like that. All smiley, friendly. But that's it. The following day the neighbor is knocking on my door and saying that he has tried to contact the cleaner, but no luck, and would I like him to hose my windows? God, no. I would not like him to hose my windows, they don't get clean from it. I want them to be washed. Very politely I told him I will have to hire professional cleaners AGAIN. He said ok and left. I am so annoyed. WTF?
Now I have contacted my window cleaners and they came again to wash the windows and I have paid phew

@daisypond - have you tried shopping around? I have never heard such an exorbitant price for window cleaning.
(We pay £12 for a 4 bed, just to make you feel a little sicker!)

Yes, tried shopping around. Some other quotes were more. I’ve been in my house for over 20 years now. I once paid 50 but that would have been about 15 years ago.

YABU

Small issue, wash them yourself. Yes annoying, but they actually owe you nothing. Wasn’t their fault. So please de escalate. With the greatest respect, pls don’t turn into that nightmare neighbour.

This is nuts! YABU.

Hi op
Not having seen the amount of dirt that was left on your Windows it's hard to say but Yanbu to be irritated that your sparkling windows were left really dirty.
I think anyone would be .
I'd pick my battles with neighbours though and washed them myself.

I had a similar issue recently OP, but mine was a brand new car, literally had it 2 days and the neighbours jet washed their drive. One side of our lovely shiny new car was filthy. I agree that this is not like the dirt you get from rain/weather and had completely splattered the car.
I ended up getting a bucket of soapy water and sponge and did it myself. It is annoying but it wasn't intentional and I didn't think it was worth causing an issue with them.

Actually I would feel the same - your neighbours shouldn't have paid the jet washing company until they'd cleaned up your windows, and really they should have noticed that your windows had been affected.

In your neighbours shoes I think I would have 0aid for a window clean to keep the peace but left a bad review with the jet washing company and not used them again.

In your shoes, however for the sake of good relations I'd let it go and just pay for another clean. If the neighbours see the window cleaner there, maybe they will offer to chip in. But it's not worth falling out over.

@wowfudge if it was my windows I'd probably tut and be quietly annoyed but I'm not batshit crazy so wouldn't go round ranting at my poor neighbours

Yabu. The neighbours did their best to contact the contractor, offered to clean them.
You're being to precious.
Next time you are due to have your windows washed check their not cleaning their garden.

Being assertive about the muck a neighbour's contractor has got on your windows does not equate to ranting, not is it 'batshit crazy'.

Nor, not not