Window Cleaning in Dawlish

The Moore & Franks approach in Dawlish

Dawlish takes the weather full on, with the sea wall and the railway line famously exposed to spray that carries well inland on a southwesterly. The black-and-white cottages by the Brook, the seafront terraces and the newer estates up at Secmaton all collect a salty film that dulls glass within weeks. We get on top of it with pure water that rinses salt clean away, leaving frames and sills clear rather than crusted. Our cleaners reach upper windows safely from the ground, no ladders propped against tired render. A Devon family firm, twenty-five years on, insured to £5m and dependable round after round.

Nowhere we work re-dirties glass faster than the exposed side of Dawlish, so most homes here run a shorter round than the usual quarterly. Six to eight weeks is the sweet spot near the front: long enough to be worth the visit, short enough that the salt never really gets a grip. We book the whole cycle in ahead so it happens automatically, tighter through the winter blows and eased off across a calm summer spell.

The stretch toward Dawlish Warren is thick with holiday lets and beach boltholes, and their owners are usually miles away when the glass needs doing. We clean from outside, drop a message when a property is finished and bill remotely, which is what a busy changeover schedule needs. Sea view is the whole selling point of these places, so salted, hazy windows do them no favours with the next guests booking in.

Up on Barton Hill and around Holcombe the wooded slopes throw shade and leaf fall onto north-facing roofs, so conservatory glass there greens as much from damp as from salt. We rinse it clear off the pole at low pressure, priced from £50 + VAT for a small roof, more for a larger one, and clean any solar panels at £7 + VAT each in the same visit, since the coastal film costs you output as surely as it costs you the view.

Our Dawlish customers are typically within 25 minutes of our Exeter base. We cover the wider EX7 postcode area and the surrounding villages (Dawlish Warren, Dawlish Water (the Black Swans), Cockwood, Holcombe, Barton Hill, The Strand).