How to Read and Compare Three Window Cleaning Quotes

Normalize the scope before you look at the price

A window cleaning quote is a number attached to a scope, and three companies can price your house while describing three different jobs. Get each one to answer the same questions in writing. Are you counting panes or openings? A twelve-pane French door is one opening and twelve panes, and that single definition can swing a bid by a hundred dollars. Is the price interior and exterior, or exterior only? Are screens actually cleaned, or just popped out and put back? Are sills and tracks wiped, or billed separately? Is hard water staining on sprinkler-hit glass included, or quoted after someone sees it? Put the answers in three columns on paper. Most of the time one of the cheap quotes turns out to be exterior-only with screens excluded, and the real spread closes to under fifty dollars. Reflekt prices windows from $199 by pane count, with screens at $50.

Score each quote on five criteria

Score every quote zero to two on five things, then add it up. Scope in writing: two if the estimate itemizes pane count, interior versus exterior, screens, and tracks; zero if it is a text message with one number in it. Insurance: two if they send a certificate naming their carrier without you having to ask twice; zero if they get vague. Method: two if they can tell you what water and what tools they use and why; one if they say soap and squeegee, which still works fine on a clean pane; zero if they will not say. Redo policy: two if there is a written window for streaks and rain with an actual number of days on it; zero if the answer is we will take care of you. Scheduling: two if they can give you a real date and an arrival window right now. Anything scoring eight or better deserves serious consideration at almost any price in the range.

What a low bid and a high bid actually tell you

Once the scope matches, price gaps have real causes, and not all of them are bad. A low bid usually means one of four things: exterior only, no screens, a solo operator with lower overhead, or an uninsured crew. The first three are legitimate and might be exactly what you want. The fourth is the one that costs you, because a ladder through a bay window on an uninsured job becomes your homeowners claim. A high bid usually means a second story with hard access, a lot of small panes, hard water restoration priced in, or a company carrying real insurance, payroll, and a guarantee. Ask which. A crew that can point at the line item causing the number is pricing the work. A crew that gets defensive is pricing you. Also check what happens after the first clean, because the maintenance price is what you will actually pay two or three times a year.

Check the company behind the paper

Ask for the insurance certificate, not a verbal yes, and glance at the expiration date. Read the newest reviews rather than the total, since ten reviews from this season tell you more about the current crew than four hundred from years back. Look for a local address and a phone that a person answers. Watch for a large deposit before any work, cash only, or pressure to sign at the door. Be honest about where each company is stronger. Reflekt was founded in April 2025 by Hunter Stevens and Ethan Seusy, so we have 115+ Google reviews at 4.9 stars and roughly a year of history, while several valley companies have been at this far longer and have deeper review counts. If a decade of local track record is your top criterion, one of them will beat us on it, and hiring on that basis is a reasonable call.

Match the winner to your actual situation

The right answer depends on the job in front of you. Selling and need glass photographed next week: weight scheduling and a redo policy, because a missed date costs more than fifty dollars. Hard water etching from years of sprinkler overspray: weight method and restoration experience, and expect a separate line item, since standard cleaning will not touch mineral bonding. Rental turnover on a budget: the cheapest insured exterior-only bid is genuinely the right pick. Recurring maintenance on a house you live in: compare the ongoing visit price and whether there is a contract, not the first-clean number. Commercial storefront or a portfolio of units: ask about crew size and route capacity before anything else. And if you need work outside a window cleaner's list, or you are outside our service area, hire the company that actually does the job rather than stretching one that does not.

Running the framework on a Reflekt quote

Here is how we answer the same five questions, so you can score us alongside the other two. Scope: priced by pane count from $199, screens at $50, gutters from $199, pressure washing at $0.20 per square foot, house washing at $0.18 soft-wash, with interior versus exterior stated on the estimate. Insurance: fully insured, certificate on request. Method: 100 percent pure deionized water with no soap, which leaves nothing behind to attract dust, finished with our RainShield step. Redo policy: a 7-Day Rain Guarantee in writing. Scheduling: same-day and next-day slots when the route allows. Memberships run monthly or quarterly with no contract and a free annual screen clean. Where we are behind is time in business, not workmanship. Call (208) 453-6760 and ask for the itemized version so you can put it next to the other two.