Window Cleaning — Beaconsfield Parade, Albert Park

The windows on this apartment are set outside the balcony line. There is no floor beneath them and nothing to lean out from, so the outer face cannot be reached the way a balcony window normally is. Glass in that position tends to be years behind the rest of the building, because every previous clean stopped at what an arm could get to. What lands on it is the other half of the problem. The building faces the beach with nothing in between, and the standard for atmospheric corrosion treats the first 50 metres from a sheltered bay as a category of its own. Salt does not rinse off with the next shower the way street dust does. It accumulates on the outer face, which is exactly the face nobody can reach.

Specialist reach equipment did what the balcony could not. The outer faces were washed from a position the balcony does not provide, which is the whole reason a job like this is quoted differently to an ordinary apartment clean. One technician, two and a half hours, and the outer glass finished to the same standard as the panes that are easy to get at. No scaffold, no external access booking, no second visit.

• Apartment windows cleaned on a beach frontage
• Outer faces beyond the balcony line reached with specialist access equipment
• One technician on site, two and a half hours
• Before and after photographs supplied

• Outer glass clean on windows the balcony does not reach
• Salt film off the beach-facing panes
• Finished in a single visit