Autumncrest is established custom homes on acreage lots — the kind of north Eagle property where the view is the reason you bought and the wind is the price of admission. Acreage means more irrigation over more ground, and a foothills position means the grit arriving on your glass is abrasive rather than powdery.
These are custom houses on acreage rather than a builder's repeated floor plan, so the glass package follows whatever each owner wanted from their view. One house carries a wall of fixed glass facing the foothills; the next divides the same view into casements with grilles. Grilles matter for the work because every seam where a bar meets glass is a ledge that catches dust and holds it, so those get hand-brushed before the squeegee pass rather than flooded and hoped for. Pane count is the price driver, and on a divided-lite custom the grid count is the number that matters.
An acre or more of landscaping means considerably more sprinkler throw than a quarter-acre lot, and Eagle's irrigation is untreated canal water carrying silt along with dissolved calcium and magnesium. More heads running longer over more ground means more overspray reaching ground-floor glass and stone wainscot, where it dries into a gritty mineral film rather than a clean spot. On south and west-facing panes that film bakes in summer sun, and if it is allowed to sit for years it etches — at which point it is hard water stain removal rather than a cleaning.
The grit that reaches these windows comes off decomposed-granite ground rather than cropland, so it is sharp and mica-flecked instead of soft and powdery. Loess smears under a wet squeegee; this behaves like very light sandpaper and scores glass if anyone wipes it dry or scrubs it with a rag. Every pane gets flooded with 100% pure deionized water before anything makes contact, so the abrasive is floating rather than grinding. Because the water has nothing dissolved in it, there is no mineral left behind to dry into a spot and nothing for the next windy afternoon's grit to bond to — that is what the RainShield finish actually is.
Eagle's water tests hard before you add anything to it, and the sprinkler overspray out here arrives with silt on top of dissolved mineral. That combination etches if it is allowed to sit and bake through a summer on south and west-facing glass — at which point it stops being a cleaning problem and becomes a restoration one. Caught early it comes off with a deionized rinse. Left for years it needs hard water stain removal, which is a different service and a different number. We will tell you which one you are actually looking at.
Windows start at $199 and price by pane count, so a house with a two-story great-room wall and a clerestory stack prices above a standard production home — we give you the number before we start, not after. Screens are $50 added to a window service and free once a year on a membership; gutters start at $199. The honest limit: if your glass was done recently and the only thing bothering you is a haze on the lower panes, that is usually sprinkler mineral on two or three windows, not a whole-house job, and we would rather fix those than sell you the full service again.
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Yes, and it is worth understanding why. Grilles turn one pane into a grid of small ones and every bar seam is a ledge that has to be cleaned individually. It genuinely takes longer than a single large pane of the same area, so pane count reflects the grid rather than the opening.
Adjust the heads, honestly — it is cheaper and more effective than cleaning more often. On an acre lot there are usually a few heads throwing at the house rather than the lawn, and fixing those removes most of the mineral film at the source. We will point out which ones when we see the pattern on the glass.
No — 100% pure deionized water with no soap at all. Soap leaves a residue in tracks and along seams that attracts the next round of dust, which is why soap-cleaned windows look dirty again faster. Deionized water has nothing dissolved in it, so there is nothing left behind to dry into a spot.
Our 7-Day Rain Guarantee covers it. Rain on already-clean glass is mostly harmless — what spots a window is the dust the rain lands on. If a storm genuinely undoes the work inside seven days, we come back out.
Not for exterior work, as long as we can reach the glass and any gate is unlocked. Interior cleaning obviously needs access. Tell us at booking whether there is a gate code, a dog, or a preferred arrival window and the crew will not be guessing on arrival.
No contract on either the monthly or quarterly membership — cancel whenever. Members get pricing on every visit, the annual screen clean included, and priority on the schedule. It exists because most people want this handled on a rhythm rather than remembering to book it.
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