Window Cleaning in Arden Hills, MN

Arden Hills sits directly between our shop and the western suburbs, so we're through here constantly. It's also a city of two distinct housing types, and they need different things.

What Arden Hills homes need

The Lake Johanna side is larger custom homes, many with lake-facing glass and the tall window walls that come with a view worth building toward. Those get the water-fed pole treatment — purified water at height from the ground, which means nothing leaning on your siding and no one on your roof. Lakefront glass also picks up mineral spotting from irrigation overspray, which is the single most common thing homeowners here mistake for permanent damage.

Away from the lake, much of Arden Hills is solid mid-century construction — ramblers and split-entries from the 1950s and 60s with aluminum-framed sliders and, in a lot of cases, original wood sills. Aluminum sliders are notorious for a gritty lower track that grinds every time the window opens, and painted wood sills need a gentler hand than a vinyl frame. These are the details that separate a real clean from a quick pass over the glass.

The construction happening at Rice Creek Commons on the former ammunition plant site adds a wrinkle worth mentioning. Sustained earthwork nearby puts fine dust in the air, and fine dust settles on glass and gets driven into frame channels by rain. If you're near that activity, you'll notice your windows going hazy faster than they used to.