Window cleaningin Sunrise, FL.

Ash and soot are gritty and a little oily. Wiped dry, they smear across the glass and drag grit with them, which can leave fine scratches. After the Atlantic Fire burned west of Sunrise in June 2026, a lot of west-side glass carried exactly that film. West-facing panes also bake the film on in the afternoon sun. Screens hold even more of it than the glass does.

The glass is wetted first and washed with plenty of water so nothing is dragged, then squeegeed. Screens are washed separately, because a sooty screen keeps shedding onto the clean pane behind it. Book after the smoke has cleared. Tracks get vacuumed as well, because ash collects in them and grinds when the window slides.

Sunrise Lakes is 55-plus condos developed between 1971 and 1997, and the earlier units came with screened porches. In a condo building the association handles the outside of the building, but the porch glass and screens are often the owner's. Porches that face the lakes also take the humidity off the water. Buildings there span more than twenty-five years of construction, so the porches vary too.

Porch glass is done by hand from the porch side, and the screens are washed in place where they are fixed. Check your association's rules first, and Michael will tell you straight whether the job is one he takes. If the porch screens are grey with algae, a full soft wash of the porch can be added to the same visit.

The Mediterranean townhomes out by Sawgrass Mills and Markham Park are two stories, with bedroom windows upstairs that are hard to reach from inside and too high for a stepladder outside. They are also the first homes to catch ash when the Everglades burn. In the humidity that ash bonds to the glass, and west-facing panes bake it on in the afternoon.

A water-fed pole reaches that glass from the ground with purified water, which dries without spots. Nothing leans on the stucco and nothing goes onto the neighbor's side. Ground-floor glass is done by hand, screens come out and get washed, and the tracks are cleaned. Inside glass is available too, one room at a time. Screens on the upper windows are washed from inside if they come out.