A modern home on Crimea Street, St Kilda, with floor-to-ceiling glass throughout. The glazing was cleaned inside and out in a single visit. Large panes show every mark, so both faces were finished together to leave the glass reading clear from either side.

Floor-to-ceiling glass makes any film on the surface obvious. Dust, salt carried in off the bay and rain spotting build up as a haze that is easy to miss day to day but flattens the view once the light hits the pane at an angle. Cleaning only the outside leaves the inside face marked, so the glass still looks dirty from indoors and the work reads as unfinished.
Both faces of every pane were cleaned in the same visit, so nothing was left to show through from the other side. Large panes were worked wet and squeegeed off in overlapping passes to avoid streaks drying into the middle of the glass, with edges and corners finished by hand. Frames and sills were wiped down so run-off did not carry grit back onto clean glass.
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