How I Count Your Windows for a Georgetown, TX Window Cleaning Quote

There is no industry standard for what counts as “a window,” which is why three window cleaning quotes for the same Georgetown house can differ by 48% and none of them are lying. Here is exactly how I count, so you can compare quotes properly — including mine against someone else’s.

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Window cleaning quotes count panes of glass, not window openings

A normal double-hung window — the kind that slides up and down — is two panes. Top sash and bottom sash. A fixed picture window is one.

On my own two-story here in Georgetown, 29 window openings came to 46 panes — 1.6 panes per opening, not 2. Any window cleaner who assumes every window is double-hung overcounts a Georgetown house like mine by about a quarter, and a quote that is 25% high is a quote you do not accept.

The grid question, and why it changes your window cleaning price

Look at a window with little squares in it. Now run a finger across the glass.

If the dividers are between the panes of glass — you feel nothing, the glass is smooth — that is one pane. One pull with a squeegee. Seconds.

If you can feel the dividers on the surface, or if each little square is genuinely its own piece of glass, every square counts. A single window like that can take ten minutes.

Same window from the street. Twelve times the work, and a real difference in what window cleaning costs on that house.

What gets counted separately on a Georgetown window cleaning quote

• Sliding glass doors
• Transoms — the glass above a front door
• Skylights — ground-reachable only
• Storm windows — these come apart and go back together. Other window cleaning companies charge $85 per unit for this. I will tell you before I start.

Two things I quote separately on every Georgetown window cleaning job

Hard water etching. If the lower windows near a sprinkler head look cloudy in a way that does not wipe off, that is mineral bonded into the glass. It is restoration, not window cleaning, and it is a different job with a different price. It is the single thing that turns a two-hour job into a five-hour one, which is why I ask about it on the phone instead of discovering it on your driveway.

New construction or recent paint work. Paint specks, adhesive and mortar need a blade, and blade work on new tempered glass carries the highest scratch risk in this trade. Quoted separately, always.

Everything else — screens, tracks, sills — is in the price. See window cleaning prices for Georgetown, TX.

Four questions to ask any window cleaner in Georgetown, TX

Including me.

1. What do you rinse with? If the final rinse is tap water, the spots come back on the first dry day.
2. How do you reach the high glass? A ladder leaned on a gutter is faster and cheaper than a pole. It is also how gutters get bent and how somebody gets hurt on your property.
3. Do you carry commercial insurance, and can I see the certificate?
4. Is hard water restoration included or extra? If nobody has mentioned it and your lower panes are cloudy, it is extra — and you will find out on the day.

Worth reading next: what can go wrong on a window cleaning job, and what I do about each one.