Pure water first
The water is filtered until there is nothing left in it to dry onto the pane.
Pure Water Window Cleaning in Bree, Co. Wexford
There is a right time of year to have your windows done in Bree, and it has little to do with holidays. It has to do with land work, silage, harvest dust and hedge cutting, and knowing which month puts what on your glass. We plan around that, so you are not paying to clean a window the week before it gets filthy.
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No ladders near the wall
The work happens from the ground.
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Sills and frames
Part of the clean, not an extra.
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You can be out
We work round the side.
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Nothing unannounced
You know the week in advance.
The Bree year, read off your windows
Ask us when to clean and the honest answer is that it depends on what month you are asking in. Country glass around here follows the farming calendar closely, and once you know the pattern you can stay ahead of it instead of chasing it. Nobody in Bree needs a calendar to tell them the pattern, either. You hear the machinery start and you know what the glass will look like by the end of the week.
Spring: pollen and land work together
From March the land gets busy and the ditches wake up at the same time. You get fine soil dust off the fields and a yellow pollen film off the hedgerows, often inside the same fortnight. A clean at this point gives you the most obvious return of the year, because it buys you clear glass for the brightest months in it. Slurry weather is worth naming while we are on spring. What carries on that wind is fine and it settles on north-facing glass in particular, and it wants water rather than a wipe with a cloth.
Summer: dust that bakes rather than washes
Dry weather is harder on glass than wet. Dust lifted by machinery drifts, lands and bakes on instead of washing away, and a light shower afterwards sets it into streaks rather than clearing it. We would far rather come to you shortly after the busy weeks than in the middle of them, and we are glad to time it that way.
Autumn and winter: damp, and the light you lose
Once the ditches are cut and the evenings close in, the problem turns from dust to damp. Organic matter sits on your cold glass and grows on it, and low winter sun through a hazy pane is what makes a room feel grey. A clean going into winter is the one people thank us for most, because you notice every hour of daylight you get back. Hedge cutting deserves its own warning in this parish. The flail throws chopped green matter a surprising distance, and it hits a window wet and sticky rather than dry. Left on the pane it stains. Caught inside a week or two, it comes away under the brush without any argument at all.
Bree sits in working farming country between Enniscorthy and the water, and the seasons here are loud about themselves. Neighbours around the parish and out along the Slaney Valley tell us the same thing every August: the glass goes from clear to grey in about a fortnight of dry harvest weather. Tell us how your year runs and we will work our visits around it, rather than the other way about.
The Bree year, pane by pane
Each season leaves something different.
WinterSalt and storm film
SpringPollen, and the worst of it shows
SummerDust, and the busiest diary
AutumnLeaf fall and damp
Everything the visit covers in Bree
Glass, and the parts around it.
How a Bree clean actually runs
Start to finish, in four.
Brushed, not scrubbed
The head is soft. It loosens the film and works into the corners where the dirt gathers.
The pole does the reaching
Rinsing happens from the path below, so nothing leans against your wall.
No cloth, no smears
With nothing dissolved in the water there is nothing to leave behind. It dries clear.
From the Google reviews
Nearest ones to Bree first.
“I was out and it was all done when I got home. Frames and all.”
“Second year on the round and the glass has never gone back to how it was.”
“They looked at it and said it could wait a month. That is why I stayed.”
“Sills, frames and the conservatory in the one visit.”
Two ways to have it done in Bree
One of them people rarely go back from.
One clean, on request
Handled as a one-off
- You ring us when it needs doing
- Priced on what we find
- Booked into a free week
MOST PEOPLE
The Signature Round
From €25
- The same team back each time
- A place kept in the diary
- Nothing builds up between visits
While we are at the house
The other three jobs, on the one visit.
Softwashing
Walls carrying the same film as the glass
SoftwashingGutter cleaning
Cleared and checked, with the ground swept after
Gutter cleaningRoof cleaning
Slate or tile, inspected before anything goes on it
Roof cleaningAreas we cover near Bree and across County Wexford
We are through Bree regularly on the Enniscorthy round, so you can pick your month and not just your week.
The village and the townlands around it are all on our route, along with Ballyhogue next door and Oilgate over on the main road. If you would rather be cleaned in the spring and again before Christmas than at random, say so when you book and we will note it on your job.
Wider out we cover Enniscorthy and Wexford Town, with Ballymurn on the same sheet, and we get across to Adamstown and Barntown on the western side. Have a cottage or a house you only use part of the year? Give us the weeks that matter and we will work back from them.
What you get in Bree
Every visit, not as extras.
- Upper glass from the groundNo ladder against the house.
- Sills and frames every timeNot an extra, and not an upsell.
- Conservatory roofsPanels, and the frames between them.
Put it on the Round
Same team, same standard, priority in the diary. From €25.
Join the Signature RoundBree window cleaning: questions about timing
When is the best month to have my windows cleaned?
For most Bree houses, once in spring after the pollen settles and once going into winter covers the worst of it. Beside working land, you may want a visit after the harvest dust as well. We will talk it through and suggest what fits your own house rather than handing you a stock answer off a list.
Does the time of year change what it costs?
It does not. Whatever the month, a place on the Signature Round runs from €25, and what shifts your figure is the size of the house and how reachable the windows are. That is all agreed with you before the first pane is touched.
Can I have you out only once a year?
You can, and plenty of people do. A single annual clean is heavier work than a regular one, so it tends to price higher, and the glass will spend part of the year looking tired. If that suits how you live, it suits us, and there is nothing to sign.
Do you clean windows in winter?
We do, right through it. Purified water works in cold weather and dries clear, and we stand down only in hard frost or a wind that makes the pole unsafe. If we have to move your date, we will tell you and come back at the next chance.
I only use the house part of the year. Can you work around that?
That is no trouble. Give us the weeks you want the place looking well and we will time our visits to land just before them. You do not need to be there for an outside clean, so an empty house is fine.
Pick your month in Bree
Pick a date that suits your year, online or over the phone, and we will fit you into the next run through the parish. If the season turns on you, tell us and we will move it.