Window Cleaning in Blaine, MN

Blaine has some of the newest housing stock in the north metro, which produces a specific and slightly counterintuitive situation: brand new windows that already look bad.

What Blaine homes need

The main culprit is irrigation. New subdivisions come with new sod, new sod comes with an irrigation system, and irrigation systems on new installs are frequently aimed a few degrees off. A sprinkler head that catches a ground-floor window a few hundred times a season deposits minerals every single time. Those minerals bond to the glass surface. This is why a five-year-old home can have worse-looking windows than a fifty-year-old one, and why ordinary washing doesn't fix it — you're not looking at dirt sitting on top of the glass, you're looking at mineral bonded into it. Removing it is a restoration process, not a cleaning one. We'll tell you before we start whether yours is removable and how far it will come back.

The second Blaine issue is construction residue. Homes in actively building neighborhoods pick up fine masonry and stucco dust, and in some cases spatter from siding or concrete work that was never cleaned off before handover. Caught early it comes off cleanly. Left through a few freeze-thaw cycles it becomes much harder.

Beyond that, Blaine homes are typically two-storey with high window counts and vinyl frames — which brings back the weep hole problem. Grit blocks the drainage holes at the base of the frame, water sits in the track, and a dirty line forms along the bottom of the glass. Track and sill detailing is part of the standard service.