Light Fixture Cleaning in Metro Detroit

Inside the house, light fixture cleaning covers pendants over a kitchen island or a dining table, pendants in a foyer or a stairwell, metal-frame and wrought iron fixtures, multi-tier fixtures in two-story rooms, and semi-flush and recessed fixtures on high ceilings. Vanity lights and wall sconces are part of it, and so are ceiling fans in vaulted rooms.

Outside, it covers the coach lights beside the doors, post lamps along a walk or a drive, and the soffit lights tucked under the eaves.

Chandeliers are light fixtures too, but they have their own page. If the fixture you have in mind is a chandelier, start with chandelier cleaning.

Every time the stove is on, a little grease goes up with the heat and the steam. It settles on whatever hangs above the island and the range, and dust sticks to it. Over months that turns into a tacky film on the shade and on the metal around it.

A duster or a dry cloth only spreads that film around. Kitchen pendants carry a mix of grease and dust that dusting won't lift, so they need washing. A fixture in a hallway or a bedroom collects plain dust, which is a lighter job.

Glass shades and globes that are made to come off can be washed in water. The wired parts, such as the socket and the canopy against the ceiling, stay dry.

Wiring and repairs are an electrician's job. If we see a cracked shade or a wire that doesn't look right while we're working, we tell you what we saw, so you can have an electrician take a look.

Moths and other insects gather at a lit fixture at night. Some find a gap, get inside the glass and die there, and spiders string webs across the frame to catch the rest. That's why an outdoor fixture fills up over a summer.

Dead insects pile up in the bottom of the glass, and webs stretch across the panes. Dust and dead insects inside a fixture block light, and an entry lit by a dirty coach light looks dim even with a new bulb in it.

On a house wash, exterior light fixtures get rinsed and webbed out, and mud dauber and wasp nests get knocked down from the eaves and the fixtures. Outdoor fixtures are outside work, so they're done in the outside season and go best with a visit that already has us at the house: a window cleaning between March and December, or a house wash between March and November.

A pendant over a stairwell, or a multi-tier fixture hanging in a two-story room, sits where a stepladder has nowhere safe to stand. Those are the fixtures people put off.

Two-story and stairwell fixtures get equipment chosen for the room, and the floor and stairs are protected before it goes up. A fixture on a winch can be lowered to a working height, which makes the cleaning simpler.

While the equipment is set up, the high shelves and the ceiling fan blades in that room can be done too. It saves a second setup later for the same reach.

A ceiling fan in a vaulted room is a light fixture that gets the same neglect, for the same reason: it's too high to reach. Dust settles along the top of each blade while the fan sits still. Switch it on after a few idle months and that dust gets thrown around the room, onto the furniture and the floor below.

Fans in vaulted rooms are on the list of fixtures we clean. Having the blades done before the first warm spell of the year keeps that dust off the room below.

Inside fixtures can be cleaned in any month, January and February included, since it's indoor work. A kitchen pendant needs it sooner than the rest, because it picks up grease every time someone cooks. A fixture in a formal dining room or a guest bedroom gathers dust at a slower pace.

Outdoor fixtures follow the outside calendar. Late in the season, after a summer of insects, is a sensible time to do them, and pairing them with a window cleaning or a house wash puts them on a visit that's already booked.

Canopy lights, wall packs and sconces at a storefront or an office are part of our commercial window cleaning work. That page covers how business visits run.

Light fixture cleaning is priced from the fixtures you list. The count matters, and so does height, since a fixture over a stairwell needs equipment set up under it. What's on the glass matters too: a kitchen pendant with a grease film takes longer to wash than a hallway fixture takes to wipe.

Send a photo of each fixture and the ceiling height, and say which ones are outside. That's what we price it from.