Sanctuary glass in Boise runs two and three stories, and most church campuses still maintain it with volunteers on borrowed ladders. Reflekt cleans church exteriors from the ground with pure deionized water, books around your service calendar, and sends the finance team one itemized invoice. Fully insured, locally owned, 4.9 stars across 115+ Google reviews.
Where a church sits in Boise decides what is on its windows. Campuses on the Bench, through Vista, Hillcrest and Morris Hill, take jet soot off the Boise Airport and Gowen Field approach on top of traffic film from Vista and Fairview. North End and East End congregations under the mature maples near Harrison Boulevard and Hyde Park get aphid honeydew all summer, a sticky sugar film that hose water will not lift, then a heavy leaf load in October. Foothills-side properties below Table Rock take pale decomposed granite grit that scratches glass if anyone dry-wipes it. December through February the inversion parks wood smoke over the whole bowl and lays down a gray film that nobody notices until the low winter sun rakes across the sanctuary windows during an evening service.
Most of the height on a church is glass nobody can reach safely: clerestory bands, gable-end window walls, arched sanctuary units two and three stories up. We clean those from the ground with carbon fiber poles and 100% pure deionized water. Nothing leans on the building, so no ladder feet land in the landscaping and no ladder rail presses against leaded came or a stained glass frame. Pure water matters more here than on a house. Plenty of Boise sanctuaries have acrylic or polycarbonate storm panels protecting original stained glass, and that plastic hazes permanently the moment it meets an abrasive pad or a scrubbing soap. Deionized water carries no minerals and no soap, so it lifts the film and dries with nothing left behind. That is the RainShield finish: no residue for foothills dust to stick to.
We are closed Sundays, so nothing we do touches a service. Beyond that, church campuses run harder midweek than people assume: preschool and daycare wings, Wednesday night programs, pantry hours, scout and recovery meetings, and a wedding or funeral that lands with three days' notice. Tell us the standing calendar once and we default to Monday through Thursday mornings, finished before preschool pickup. Everything is exterior, so nobody walks through the building and no staff member has to stay late to lock up behind us. Hoses stay coiled off walkways and out of the parking lanes, and the work zone gets coned so a delivery or a graveside procession is not routing past a pole. When a funeral drops onto the calendar, our same-day and next-day slots run both directions: we can move you up or push a day.
The real cost of volunteer window cleaning is not the Saturday. It is a retired trustee thirty feet up on a borrowed extension ladder set against a sanctuary gable. Most church policies treat volunteers very differently than employees, and a fall on your property becomes the board's problem, not the volunteer's. Reflekt is fully insured, and a certificate of insurance goes to your office or your agent before the first visit — ask and it goes out the same day. That covers the property side too: a ladder that dents an original half-round gutter, a boot through a landscape light lens, a cracked panel in a leaded window. Ground-based pole work removes most of that exposure to begin with, because the only things touching your building are water and a brush head.
Glass is usually the reason we get called, but the campus adds up. Gutter cleaning starts at $199, and on an older North End or East End property with maples over the roof, packed gutters back up into the soffit and dump water at a foundation with a basement fellowship hall behind it. Cottonwood fluff off the Boise River corridor mats screens and packs those gutters again in June. Entry walks and the concrete under a covered drop-off carry gum, winter salt and years of shoe traffic; pressure washing runs $0.20 per square foot. Siding is soft-washed at $0.18 per square foot at low pressure, which is what painted lap siding, stucco and fiber cement classroom wings need, since high pressure drives water in behind them. Window cleaning starts at $199 by pane count, screens $50 more.
Churches do not buy the way homeowners do. Somebody has to carry a number into a finance committee that meets once a month, and that number has to hold. We walk the campus, count panes, measure siding and concrete, and send a written quote you can attach to the agenda. It does not move afterward. From there most churches put it on a membership: monthly or quarterly, no contract, cancel whenever you want. Quarterly saves $100 per cleaning and turns exterior upkeep into a predictable annual line instead of a scramble before Easter and Christmas Eve. Billing follows your books — one invoice for the whole campus, or split by building if the preschool or school is its own cost center, itemized by service so the treasurer is not guessing. Every membership includes a free annual screen cleaning.
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Most of the time, yes. Carbon fiber pole systems fed with deionized water reach roughly three to four stories from the ground, which covers the majority of Boise sanctuaries, clerestory bands and gable-end glass. If a window sits above a roof plane we cannot work around, we say so at the walkthrough and quote the lift separately rather than improvising something on the day. You get the honest number before it goes to the board.
Deionized water is the gentler option for both. It carries no soap, no solvent and no abrasive, so it will not haze the acrylic or polycarbonate storm panels protecting a lot of Boise stained glass. On leaded glass we clean the exterior face and keep water off failing glazing putty and open came joints. If we find cracked came, a bowing panel or putty letting go, we photograph it and send it to your facilities contact. We do not attempt repairs.
Every cleaning carries a 7-Day Rain Guarantee. If rain inside that week spots the glass, we come back and redo the affected windows at no charge. Same answer if a volunteer spots a streak or a missed pane during Saturday setup: call the office and we return. Boise only gets about eleven inches of precipitation a year, so this comes up less than people expect, but the guarantee stands either way.
For the walkthrough and quote, yes, ideally somebody who knows the buildings and the calendar. After that, no. We need gate or lot access, an outside spigot if one is available, and a cell number for whoever is on campus that day. Exterior work never requires anyone to unlock the sanctuary or wait around through the visit. We text when the crew arrives and again when the work is finished.
Quarterly fits most churches here, and it is the plan that saves $100 per cleaning. The calendar drives it: elm and maple drop from March through May, dust and aphid honeydew build through a rainless summer, gutters take their heaviest load in October, and inversion film sets in December through February when the low sun makes every streak obvious. Campuses with heavy street-facing glass on the Bench or downtown near the 8th Street core often add monthly entry and lobby glass.
Window cleaning starts at $199 and prices by pane count, so a sanctuary with twelve tall units can come in under a fellowship hall with forty small ones. Screens add $50. Gutters start at $199, pressure washing is $0.20 per square foot, and soft-wash siding is $0.18. We count and measure on site instead of quoting off satellite images, and the written number is the number that shows up on the invoice. Call (208) 453-6760 to set the walkthrough.
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