Filtered down to nothing
What reaches your glass is water with the minerals taken out of it.
Oulart sits high and open, and the wind brings the fields with it. We clean your glass with purified water so the dust that lands on it lifts away instead of smearing, and you get the view back.
The pole does the reaching, not a ladder.
Cleaned with the glass, not after it.
Side access is all we ask for.
We tell you the week beforehand.
The whole opening, every time.
You are up above the farmland here, with very little standing between your house and the weather. That changes how fast your glass goes dull, and it changes how hard the dirt is to shift once it has dried on. Neighbours down on the low ground get a slower, softer version of the same problem.
When the fields around Oulart are worked dry, wind lifts fine soil and carries it a long way. Your house is one of the first things it meets. You will see it worst on the elevation that faces the weather, where the dust lands, dries and holds. There is no shelter belt up here to slow any of it down, which is the whole difference between your house and one sitting in a hollow two miles away.
Up here a shower rarely gets the chance to rinse anything. Wind takes the wet off the pane before the water can run, so you are left with dust set in a tidemark rather than washed off. We loosen that film first with a soft brush, then flood it away with purified water. Volume is what does it. A pane that gets plenty of clean water poured over it has nowhere left to hide the dust the brush has loosened, and the tidemarks go away with the rest of it.
Dust does not stop at the glass. It packs into the rubber beading and along the top of the frame, and then every damp morning it runs back down over the pane you thought was clean. We brush those edges out while we are with you, so your clean holds a good deal longer.
Houses out towards The Ballagh and along the lanes down to Monageer take the worst of it, and the older stone and rendered fronts around the village show every mark across their big window openings. We put nothing on your render or stonework at all, because purified water on the glass is all the job needs. One habit worth passing on: leave the windows alone on a windy dry day. Anything you wipe on then is dry before you have finished the pane, and you will spend the evening looking at your own streaks instead of the fields.
Nothing forced, nothing scoured.
What reaches your glass is water with the minerals taken out of it.
The brush works the pane and then the corners, where the dirt actually holds.
The rinse runs up the pole, so the upper floors are reached from the ground.
No detergent means nothing to streak, and the pane clears as it dries.
Once, or on the round.
As and when
From €25
Same visit, one set-up.
We run the Oulart round out of Enniscorthy, and the north-east of the county is on our regular route.
The village and its townlands sit on that round, and so do The Ballagh, Boolavogue and Monageer. A house a good way out a lane is the normal thing here rather than the awkward one, and it is no trouble to us at all.
That route also swings through Ballycanew before dropping back into Enniscorthy, and it stretches out as far as Screen and Blackwater. Give us the townland, or the Eircode if it is handier, and you will get the date we are next passing your gate.
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“No ladders anywhere near the house, which is what sold me on it.”
“The same lads every visit, and they know the house now.”
“The frames came up better than the glass did. Delighted.”
“Booked on the Friday, done the following week. No fuss.”
Same crew, same standard, priority in the diary. From €25.
We do. Most of our work here is scattered out the lanes rather than in the village itself, so a farmhouse or a one-off build well off the road suits us fine. A townland name and a rough idea of the house is genuinely all we need to get started.
A smaller home goes onto the Signature Round from €25. Beyond that it is glass count and how easily we can walk the house that set your number, and you hear it from us before a drop of water goes near the place.
Some of it will, because you live beside working fields and we cannot do much about the wind. What changes is the state it comes back in. Clean glass sheds a fresh layer far more easily than glass carrying old baked-on film, so each clean gets lighter rather than harder.
From the ground, with a water-fed pole. Nothing leans on your gutters or your render, and we are not tramping through your garden with a ladder. It also lets us work in a bit of wind, which counts for something up here, where a still morning is the exception rather than the rule and a ladder day can be a long time coming.
Only if you would rather be. We work on the outside of the house, so we need a way in through the gate and little else. We will let you know when we are finished, and you can look over the glass whenever it suits you.
Send the address on, describe the house in a line or two, and your place on the round is sorted from there. Would you rather talk it through first? We are glad of the chance.