Shalimar Terrace dates to the 1970s and 80s — a mix of townhomes and single-family homes built around a seven-acre central park with a pool and tennis courts. Fifty years of growth on that much common green space makes this one of the shadiest neighbourhoods in Nampa.
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Homes of this vintage frequently still carry original aluminum-frame sliders or early replacement vinyl, and the screens that go with them bend if handled carelessly — so panels come out labeled and go back into the openings they left. Bottom tracks on units this age hold decades of grit with the weep holes plugged, so clearing those is part of the job. The seven-acre park and fifty years of street trees mean the load on the glass is organic — leaf fragments, honeydew, and the green film that grows on anything staying damp in shade — rather than the mineral spotting an open lot gets.
The townhome tier here pays a lower HOA fee that includes exterior paint, which tells you the association takes responsibility for parts of the building envelope. On any attached home it is worth confirming whether the exterior — including glass — is yours or the association's before arranging work. For a whole row or the common-area glass, an HOA-level quote prices far better than residents arranging their own. Detached owners here are straightforwardly on their own.
Under mature canopy the load on glass is organic rather than mineral — aphid honeydew misting down through summer, leaf fragments, and the green film that grows on anything staying damp in shade. Honeydew is sugar, so it dissolves, but while it is there it glues everything else to the pane. Less direct sun also means mineral spotting does not bake on as hard as it does on an open south-facing lot, which is genuinely good news. We flood with pure deionized water, hand-detail the frames and seams where organic buildup collects, and leave no soap film for the shade to grow on.
Like nearly every Nampa subdivision, this one runs on pressurized irrigation — untreated canal water piped along the lot lines rather than treated culinary supply. That water carries silt along with dissolved calcium and magnesium, so a sprinkler head throwing onto a lower pane does not leave a clean water spot. It leaves a gritty mineral film that is harder to lift than airborne dust and comes back on whatever schedule your timer runs. Honestly, the cheapest fix is usually adjusting the head rather than cleaning more often, and we will say so if that is what we find.
Windows start at $199 and price by pane count, which on a patio home with a compact footprint usually lands at the lower end — there is simply less glass than on a detached estate lot. Screens are $50 with a window service and free annually on a membership. Because the point of buying here was not doing exterior maintenance, most owners in this neighborhood run a quarterly membership rather than one-off visits: no contract, priced for repeat service, and it includes the annual screen clean. Gutters start at $199 where the HOA does not already cover them — worth checking your documents before you pay for something twice.
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Yes, by hand and carefully. Older aluminum frames and their screens get reseated in the openings they came from, and anything already failing gets flagged before we touch it. If a double-pane unit has fogged between the panes, that is a failed seal and no cleaning reaches it — we will tell you rather than charge for it.
Often partly the association's, given they cover exterior paint on that tier. Check your documents first. If several units want it done, one quote for the row beats separate visits and looks consistent from the street.
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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