Cleaning Mirrors the Easy Way!
So many times when I am at a client’s home cleaning their windows, I’ll notice that the one area that is often neglected is the bathroom mirrors.
Sometimes the bathroom mirrors will have a lot of splattered toothpaste from the kids brushing their teeth or from the water splashing up on them. One of the many things that I love to do, and some of our customers don’t even realize it, is…
clean the mirrors.
Cleaning mirrors using our professional technique makes it easy. There is nothing better to use on a mirror than a squeegee. What we recommend is a little soap and water applied to the mirror, then remove the soap and water with a squeegee and you have a sparkling clean mirror.
A good tip for homeowners to keep mirrors sparkling in-between cleanings is to have a bottle of soap and water and a little microfiber towel on hand to keep up with the mirror cleaning. Surprisingly, what many people don’t realize is that you can use Rain-X on a mirror. It takes a little bit of scrubbing, but the same product that you would use on your car window works great on your mirrors, as well. Rain-X helps prevent spotting and makes it easier to rinse the dirt off, leaving clean mirrors.
At 4 Seasons Window Cleaning, one of the great things I do while servicing your windows is take care of those bathroom mirrors. I will keep them nice and clean for you.
Whether it’s cleaning windows, cleaning mirrors, or cleaning gutters, you can rely on 4 Seasons Window Cleaning. Contact me online or call (843) 751-5174 to schedule a cleaning. I will be happy to help you.
Wednesday 7/01/2015 8:30 PM
Benefits of Professionally Pressure Washing Your Home and Business
1. Access to the appropriate equipment
If you are not already using a pressure washer, you might not have one lying around. The only other option is to rent one, but that's very time-consuming and very expensive. A basic task would be to find one on rent, pick up, learn how to use it, complete your task, fuel it back up, and return it within one business day to prevent additional charges.
Professional pressure washers, on the other hand, already have the best tools for the job and know how to use them. Therefore, it won't be necessary for you to hassle with the pressure washer; a professional pressure washer will bring it with him and clean it up at the end of the day.
2. Ensures surfaces are not damaged
Although pressure washing is a critical step toward preventing damage due to grime and dirt build-up, the machine itself can actually cause damage to surfaces if used by an inexperienced user.
As pressure washers can operate at several different pressures, you'll need to carefully choose the correct settings depending on the material you are washing. Otherwise, you may damage the material itself or cause scratches, chips, or even cause a dangerous leak.
In addition to knowing how much pressure to use for whatever surfaces needed cleaning, pressure washers can keep your surfaces looking as good as new without damaging them.
3. Keep Yourself Safe
When pressure washers are used on surfaces, they produce a lot of pressure which isn't pleasant for human skin. In addition, if you accidentally hit yourself with the jet of a pressure washer, you could suffer severely gruesome injuries.
Furthermore, you may slip and hurt yourself or slip and fall while climbing a ladder to reach difficult places. A skilled professional pressure washer knows how to prevent accidental injury to you and yourself.
4. Protects against damage
Grime and moss can be harmful to your house and business. Buildings and outdoor items can corrode from dirt, moss, grime, and other substances that build up. Furthermore, they can damage the materials underneath, such as your vinyl siding or the wood on your deck, as well as causing damage to paint, concrete sealant, and other surface coatings.
As surfaces degrade, everything beneath them becomes vulnerable to damage as well, making it difficult to fix the damage. Thus, moisture, vermin, and other intruders may find entry into the interior of your walls, causing serious damage to the building structure and creating a lot of discomfort for you.
As every building has small crevices, dust and other substances tend to build up. Rain and wind don't reach the grime, allowing it to accumulate for years until crevices are filled with bacteria.
By using high-pressure washing, dirt, grime, moss, and other substances are lifted from your surfaces, and the professional pressure washer can reach deep into crevices to eliminate anything that has accumulated over time, which prevents major damage before it occurs.
5. It helps you save money
With the amount of damage that can be prevented with pressure washing, it makes sense that it can also save you a great deal of money. You might be wondering how hiring a professional pressure washer can save you money.
Well, regularly cleaning your home or business is less expensive than repairing the damage caused by allowing dirt and grime to build up. A little prevention goes a long way, so pressure washing is the perfect form of preventative maintenance.
6. Eco Friendly
Water usage, soap, and cleaning chemicals used with pressure washing can be harmful to the environment for a number of reasons: they may contain chemicals that decrease soil fertility, and they can wash debris and other pollutants onto the ground and into the sewer.
However, when using a professional pressure washer, such as those at 4 Seasons Window Cleaning, you can mitigate the impact on the environment by reducing water consumption and avoiding the use of harmful chemicals. This helps to protect both the soil and plants around the pressure washer area as well as any wild animals and pets that come in contact with it.
7. Effortless and efficient
Having a professional pressure washer on hand saves you a great deal of time. Surely you understand that cleaning the exterior of your building is important, but why do you need to use pressure washing specifically? A pressure washer can save you a great deal of time and effort instead of cleaning your house and business with soft washing.
There are a number of factors that determine how long it would take to pressure wash your building, including the size of the building, the number of people working on the project, and how accessible everything is. However, a professional pressure washer company might be able to complete even a large house in a few hours. Moreover, smaller surfaces can be restored within 30 minutes.
8. A cleaner environment is a safer environment
Keeping our homes and businesses clean can have a direct impact on the health and safety of our families, employees, and even our pets. Everyone knows that good hygiene is crucial to our health, but many people are unaware of the impact that exterior surfaces can have on our family’s health.
Bacteria and vermin thrive in dirt and grime, which is the perfect breeding ground for them. When left unattended, the damage can spread, leaving the inside of your building vulnerable to spores that are harmful.
A pressure washer can remove bacteria-causing pathogens and create an environment that makes vermin less likely to settle in, protecting the health of everyone in a building. Furthermore, pressure washing removes pollen that has built up on surfaces, so if you are allergic to pollen or know of someone who is, pressure washing may help ease their pain.
9. Enhances Your Curb Appeal
The purpose of pressure washing isn't all about appearance, but there's no denying that it can have an encouraging effect on the aesthetics of your home or business.
The visual difference between using a pressurized washer and a regular washer is shocking. Unconvinced? If you head over to YouTube and type in "pressure washing," you'll find hundreds of videos and whole YouTube channels concerned with the practice since many people enjoy watching the drastic and satisfying changes a pressure washing can bring.
You won't even know the true color of a brick path covered in moss and dirt or siding that's covered in grime until you get a good wash. After that, their appearance will be like new, which is a substantial boost to your curb appeal.
For a home, curb appeal is essential. But for businesses, it's even more essential. People tend to judge the quality of your goods or services based on the appearance of your property, so improving your commercial property's curb appeal can actually boost your business.
10. Your home will be worth more
It's likely that you're looking for ways to increase your home's value if you plan to sell it. An inexpensive and effective way to accomplish that is by using pressure washing. Dirt on everything makes prospective buyers think the home is in poor condition and is not very valuable. Nevertheless, if your home is filled with beautiful, sparkling surfaces that look brand new, your home will offer no reason to suspect that it is being sold for less than it is worth.
There's no way around it: a good pressure wash is a necessity. Experience that difference for yourself when you hire 4 Seasons Window Cleaning to handle your pressure washing needs-you'll be amazed and pleased with the results.
Wednesday 7/21/2021 9:51 AM
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Dirty Windows Are Big Turn-off For House Buyers
Dirty windows? House hunters may shy away: Little things mean a lot, especially to a real estate agent who is trying to sell one listing among many. Two things that may seem little but are really not so trifling when it comes to selling a house: keeping it neat for appointments, and washing the windows.
"The marketplace is monopolized by first-time buyers as well as empty-nesters," said Mark Wade, who sells houses in Center City for Berkshire Hathaway Home Services Fox & Roach Realtors. "Both sets of buyers have one thing in common," Wade said. "They look for turnkey properties; therefore, condition is king, and a strong showing ability is the key to value in Center City."
That's true everywhere else, as well, and it has a lot to do with the way prospective buyers tour a house for sale. "People tend to spend no more than 10 to 20 minutes going through a house," said Leonore Spinelli, an agent with Century 21 Alliance in Moorestown who is a residential interior designer and "virtual stager." "They are looking at the space and flow of the home," Spinelli said. "If the house is well-kept overall, they may not notice that windows that have not been cleaned recently."
But, she added, "cobwebs, bugs in windows, and dirty screens may be indications that the home has not been cared for in other areas. These are peeves of mine when showing a home." Marilou Buffum, associate broker with BHHS Fox & Roach Realtors in Chestnut Hill, said she doesn't notice windows "unless they are awful." However, "the difference between clean and not clean is dramatic," she said.
Clean windows are most important in the fall, when the colors of the leaves shine through and "you can see that they are dirty," Buffum said. Dominik "chief cleaning officer" of a Cleaning Service in Philadelphia, which he and his wife started 11 years ago as a house cleaning service, "but we were finding great demand for window-washing, so we added it on to the business."
Dominik has a special program for real estate agents for cleaning and maintaining listings while they are on the market. Windows should be washed at least twice a year, he said. In the high-rise condominiums of Center City, that is the usual routine, area agents said. Yet twice a year is common for most houses. Windows in the city tend to get very dirty from dust, grit, and vehicle exhaust, while at properties with many trees pollen gets stuck to windows and makes them tough to clean.
Joanne Davidow, vice president of BHHS Fox & Roach and manager of the Rittenhouse Hotel office, said keeping old windows clean can be a chore. If you can't replace your windows, make sure they operate properly, Davidow said, because buyers demand that even older double-hung models work.
If a client has old windows, Lisa Fazio of Weichert Realtors in Jenkintown said, "I open and close every [one] so a home inspector won't pick it up, even though a window painted shut is considered a cosmetic item."
To wash windows, you often must use a knife to break through layers of paint that have been applied over the years. The windows should be washed inside and out, clean the frames and the bottom ledge, which tends to get the dirtiest, routinely. Storm windows are washed, as well, and the screens should be cleaned, too.
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