Residential Window Cleaning
Interior and exterior glass, sills wiped down, screens and tracks included.
See residential window cleaningWindow cleaning in McKinney, TX
Historic downtown homes with wood sashes and small panes, and modern subdivisions with a great deal of glass. Two different jobs in one city, and we quote them differently. Estimates are free.
McKinney is two cities, and they need different hands
Most of Collin County was built in one long stretch. McKinney was not. It is the county seat, it has a genuinely old centre around the downtown square, and it has grown enormously outward in recent decades. The result is a city where a house from the 1800s and a house from the 2010s are a few minutes apart and have almost nothing in common from a cleaning point of view.
That distinction is not cosmetic. It changes the method, the time and the risk.
Old windows are a different job
Around the historic district you find things that simply do not exist in the newer Collin County towns, and each one changes the work.
Glazing putty and painted timber
An old wood sash holds its glass with putty, and that putty becomes hard and brittle with age. Aggressive scraping or too much pressure at the edge of the pane chips it out — and once the bed is broken, the glass is loose and water gets into the timber. This is the single most common way an old window is damaged by cleaning.
Original glass
Old panes are often thinner than modern glass and sometimes carry the faint ripple of older manufacture. That ripple is not a defect — for a lot of owners it is the point. It also cannot be bought back if it breaks, which is a good reason not to lean on it.
Divided lights
A window with twelve small panes is, practically, twelve windows. Every pane has its own edges and its own timber to work around, and none of it can be done in a single pass. It is slower, so it is priced as slower — and anyone quoting it at the same rate as a modern picture window has not looked properly.
Storm windows
A storm window adds two more glass surfaces plus removal and refitting, and older frames and fixings can be brittle enough to object. Mention them when you book so they are in the estimate rather than turning up as a surprise on the day.
To be straight about what we are and are not: we clean glass. We are not restorers, and we do not re-putty or rebuild sashes. What we do is handle old glazing at a pace and pressure it can take, and tell you plainly when something should not be risked at all.
And then there is the rest of McKinney
Most of the city, by area and by house count, is modern. The master-planned communities spreading west and north — Stonebridge Ranch, Craig Ranch, Adriatica and the developments around them — are ordinary exterior cleaning work, with one characteristic: there is a lot of glass per house.
Large two-storey elevations, tall stairwell and entry windows, and whole walls of glass facing a back garden are normal here. Much of it cannot be reached from the ground, which is the practical reason those houses get done properly perhaps once or twice a year rather than by whoever owns a ladder.
McKinney's commercial side splits the same way. The square and the streets around it are storefronts wanting a regular, visible standard; the newer corridors bring office frontage and multi-storey work that is quoted after a look at the access.
What the weather does here
The Collin County conditions are the same ones we deal with every day — hard water from irrigation, spring pollen, heavy storm rain on clay soil — but they land differently on an older property.
Mature trees are the big one. The established streets around the old centre have serious canopy, which means gutters that genuinely fill, more shade, and considerably more of the green-black algae film on north-facing brick, stone and concrete. That is pressure washing work, and on older masonry and soft mortar it is emphatically low-pressure work.
Older gutters also tend to be older systems: more joints, more sections that have loosened, more runs that have developed a low spot and hold water. We clean them and report what we find — gutter cleaning does not fix a length that has pulled away from the fascia, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.
What we do in McKinney
Commercial Window Cleaning
Storefronts, offices and post-construction cleanup for Plano-area businesses.
See commercial window cleaningHigh Rise Window Cleaning
Multi-story buildings, offices and other tall structures.
See high rise window cleaningGutter Cleaning
Gutters and downspouts cleared so water moves away from the house.
See gutter cleaningPressure Washing
Driveways, patios, walkways, siding and other exterior surfaces.
See pressure washingWindow Repair
Glass replacement and screen repair, usually same day or next day.
See window repairWhat customers say
Was quickly evident that George is very conscientious and interested in doing the very best job. Quite a few windows (high & low) on my one-story residence and all look better than they have in 20 years.
It's nice to make a call and have a real professional come to your home and provide a service as advertised and have your windows clean and spot free with no hassles.
Common questions
Do you clean old wood-sash windows?
Yes, by hand and with the care they need. Brittle putty, painted timber and original glass do not tolerate what a modern sealed unit shrugs off.
Why do divided-light windows cost more?
A twelve-pane window is twelve windows. It is slower work, and it is priced as slower work.
Do you handle storm windows?
Yes — mention them when you book so the removal and the extra glass surfaces are in the estimate.
Do you cover the newer parts of the city?
Yes. Most of McKinney is modern, and those houses are straightforward work — just a lot of glass, much of it above ground-floor reach.
Get a free estimate in McKinney
Tell us what you have — old windows, new windows, or both — and we will give you a price before any work starts. No charge for the quote, and no obligation after it.