The Old Nampa Historic District runs 18 blocks off downtown, and its 243 National Register homes still hang original 1900–1940 wood sash with true divided lites. That glass gets cleaned by hand — no scrubbing brittle glazing putty, no ladders leaned against 100-year-old fascia, no shortcuts.
These homes were built 1900 to 1940, and most still carry their original single-pane wood sash. That glass sits in soft glazing putty behind painted muntins, and the wood divided lites were never made to take a scraper dragged across them. We clean them by hand — a wetted scrubber, a squeegee sized to the individual lite, and a detail cloth on the muntin bars — so the putty stays put and the paint stays where the painter left it. Pure deionized water does the lifting instead of soap and abrasion. On a true-divided-lite sash with a dozen small panes, that means a dozen small pulls, not one blade across the whole window. It is slower than a modern slider, and it is the only way to leave a 100-year-old sash the way you found it.
The newer subdivisions across Nampa run on pressurized irrigation, but most of the historic district predates all of that. These homes get hose-fed city well water — tested as hard as 7.08 grains per gallon — or older gravity ditch rights off the canal. Either way, a garden-hose rinse dries into visible mineral spotting, because the minerals stay behind when the water evaporates. That is the whole reason we run 100% pure deionized water with no soap. DI water has had the minerals stripped out, so it dries with nothing left to spot. It also leaves a RainShield finish that sheds the next round of dust and silt instead of letting it cake on. On old wavy glass, where a spotty rinse shows every ripple, the difference is easy to see.
A lot of these houses still run wood storm windows and original wood-frame screens — the kind with a wood surround that swells if you soak it and cracks if you flex it. We pull, wash, and reset those by hand, and we do not run them through anything that would loosen a hundred-year-old joint. Screen cleaning is included on our memberships once a year at no charge, which matters more here than on a vinyl slider you can pop out in a second. If a screen is too far gone to safely handle, we will tell you rather than break it and hand you the pieces. The goal is glass you can see through and screens that go back in their frames, not a fight with fragile old hardware.
The old grid is shaded by mature silver maple, elm, and sycamore, and that canopy is the reason these gutters clog. Through October and November the leaf and seed load comes down heavy, and a lot of these homes still carry half-round or box gutters that were never sized for it. We clear them by hand and flush the downspouts, and we do it without leaning a ladder against soft old fascia — on a house this age, the fascia board and the gutter can be as old as the roof. Gutter cleaning starts at $199. Fall, right after the canopy drops, is the season that matters most here; a clogged half-round gutter over a wood cornice is how water damage starts on a house like this.
Window cleaning starts at $199, priced by pane count rather than a flat guess — these divided-lite sashes have a lot of small panes, so we count them and quote it straight. Add $50 for screens. We run Monthly and Quarterly memberships with no contract, a 7-Day Rain Guarantee, and that free annual screen clean built in; Quarterly saves $100 per cleaning. Same-day and next-day slots are usually open. Because the district sits in a tight 18-block grid just off downtown between 4th Avenue South and 11th Avenue South, we can often batch several homes on one street in a morning, which keeps trucks off the block longer than they need to be. Call and we will walk your specific windows before quoting.
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No. We clean original wood sash by hand — a soft scrubber and a squeegee sized to each lite, with a detail cloth on the muntin bars. We keep water and pressure off the glazing putty line and never drag a blade across painted wood. Pure deionized water does the cleaning, so there is no soap film to scrub off and no reason to work the glass hard. If a putty line is already failing, we will point it out.
Because Old Nampa homes are on hard city well water — up to 7.08 grains per gallon — or ditch water off the canal, and both leave mineral spots when they dry. A hose rinse actually makes spotting worse. Our deionized water has the minerals stripped out, so it dries clear with nothing left behind, and the RainShield finish helps the glass shed the next round of dust before it cakes on.
As little as possible, and never leaned against soft old fascia. On a house built 1900 to 1940, the fascia board can be original and the gutter can be nearly as old, so we work from stable footing and water-fed poles from the ground wherever the reach allows. For gutter work we set ladders on solid points, not on the gutter itself, so we are not putting our weight on hundred-year-old wood.
Windows start at $199 and we price by pane count, so a true-divided-lite sash with many small panes is quoted on what is actually there rather than a flat rate. Screens add $50. Gutters start at $199, and pressure washing is $0.20 per square foot. The honest answer is we count your panes and quote it before we start — divided lites take longer, and we would rather tell you that up front.
Fall is the big one. The mature silver maple and elm canopy drops heavy leaf and seed through October and November, filling those old half-round gutters, so a late-fall clean clears the gutters and resets the glass before winter. Spring is a good second pass after the wind-blown field dust settles. On a Quarterly membership we keep it on a rhythm so you never have to track it.
Reflekt is fully insured and locally owned. Hunter Stevens and Ethan Seusy started the company in 2025, and we carry a 4.9-star rating across 115+ Google reviews. On historic homes the work is hand-detail, so you are getting people who slow down for old sash and wood-frame screens rather than a crew told to blast through the block as fast as it can.
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