Window cleaningin Coral Springs.

The white spots on the outside of Coral Springs windows are minerals left behind when sprinkler water dries on hot glass. Broward well and reclaimed water is hard, and the same heads hit the same panes every morning. Fresh spots wash off. Spots that have been baking on for a year or two etch into the glass and need a mineral remover and some elbow grease, and after several years they can only be lightened, not removed.

Michael checks a pane before he quotes so you know which you have. The permanent fix is aiming the sprinkler heads away from the glass, which takes five minutes and saves the windows.

The traditional way to do upstairs glass is a ladder against the house. It is slow, it scuffs the stucco, it cannot reach over a pool cage or a hedge, and it is how window cleaners get hurt. A water-fed pole is a long carbon-fiber pole with a soft brush on the end, fed with water that has had its minerals removed. The brush scrubs the glass, the pure water rinses it, and because there are no minerals in the water there are no spots when it dries.

It reaches thirty feet from the ground, over the landscaping and the cage, and it is also what the solar panel manufacturers recommend for cleaning panels. The result is glass that is cleaner than a squeegee can get it, without anyone leaning a ladder on your house.

Most window-cleaning quotes are for the glass. Here, the window means the window. Screens come out, get washed on both sides and go back in. Tracks get brushed or vacuumed out, because a track full of grit is why sliders stick. Sills and frames get wiped. Sliding glass doors and French doors are the biggest glass on the house and the first thing anyone sees from the lanai, and they get done inside and out with the track cleaned so they glide again.

Lanai and pool-cage glass, mirror-finish garage door panels and the glass in the front door are all part of the count. If it is glass and it faces outside, it goes in.

Clean glass is the cheapest thing that makes a house look newer. Realtors know it, which is why a window clean is on nearly every listing prep list in Coral Springs, and why the photos look brighter afterward. Holiday hosting, a graduation party, or just realizing you have been looking through a film since you moved in are the other times people call.

For a house that gets sprinkler spray on the glass, outside twice a year keeps the spots from etching. Inside once a year is enough for most homes. Lake houses and homes near a golf course tend to need the outside more often because of the irrigation and the wind.