Window Cleaning in Brighton, MI

Brighton means two local governments. The City of Brighton started in 1832 as a settlement along what was then the Grand River Trail. It was a village by 1867 and a city by 1928, and about 7,700 people live there now. Brighton Charter Township, next door, has about 19,300 residents, and nineteen in twenty of its households are owner-occupied. The two are run separately and get their water differently: the city from its own wells, the township from mostly private wells, with community wells in some subdivisions and public mains along a few roads. We work in both and quote every house on what its windows need.

Hard water does its damage as it dries. New spots come off with a restoration pass ahead of the normal cleaning. Spots left to bake on for years can etch the pane, and a regular cleaning can't undo etching, so you'll hear which kind you have before any restoration is billed. Turning sprinkler heads away from the house keeps the spots from coming straight back.

In the township, private deep wells are the main source, and community wells serve some older neighborhoods, among them the ones at Osborn, Fonda and Briggs lakes. No hardness figure covers those wells, so we don't quote one. If yours has been tested, the number tells you how quickly sprinkler spots will build.

Lakes, ponds and streams cover more than 1,000 acres of Brighton Township. On a lake lot, we clean the glass that faces the water on both sides, along with the doors out to the deck or yard and their tracks. If a cottage on your lot has been replaced with a larger house, tell us when you book, so the setup for the side yards is planned ahead.

Downtown Brighton centers on Main Street and Grand River Avenue, beside the Millpond and the Tridge, the walkway built across it in 1993. The city is the more built-up of the two. Just 42.7 percent of its homes stand detached, and the rest includes townhouses and apartments. About 6 percent of city homes were built in 1939 or before, and the Western House at 500 West Main Street, an Italianate building, has been on the National Register since 1986. Where an older house keeps its first glass, the panes are thin and the putty is brittle, so each pane is hand cleaned and nothing sharp touches the putty.

We clean outside windows from March through December. Inside glass can be done in any month, and January and February are for inside work only, so they're the easiest months to get an inside date. Brighton is about 20 miles from our Northville base along I-96, and gutter cleaning or a Christmas light install can ride along on the same trip if you mention it when you book.