Some of it comes off. Some of it doesn't. You'll know which before you've spent a dollar finding out.
You've cleaned these windows. Somebody else has cleaned these windows. And there's still a cloudy film or a constellation of white spots that won't budge — usually on whichever side your sprinklers hit.
An honest answer about what's actually on the glass, a small test area you can look at yourself, and a price for the rest only if you like what you see.
Everything about this service depends on which of these you actually have. Most companies quote before they know. We'd rather find out first, because two of these outcomes mean you shouldn't be paying us for restoration at all.
Mineral deposits that have landed in the last season or two and haven't bonded yet. These lift during a normal cleaning — you don't need restoration and we won't sell it to you.
→ Regular window cleaning
Minerals that have chemically attached to the glass surface. Washing won't move them, but restoration generally will. This is the case where this service is worth paying for.
→ Hard water restoration
Deposits left long enough — often years, sped up by sun and heat — can eat into the glass surface itself. Nothing reverses that. No product, no process, no company. The pane is physically changed.
→ Replacement is the only fix
You should not have to buy this service on a promise. So we don't ask you to.
Free, and usually while we're already there for a regular cleaning. We'll tell you which of the three cases you're in.
One small patch on a real affected pane — not a demo window, yours. Then you walk over and look at it yourself.
If the glass came back, we quote the rest. If it didn't, the glass is etched, you know for certain, and you've paid nothing to find out.
Why this matters: etched glass and bonded deposits look nearly identical from across a room. The only reliable way to tell them apart is to try. A company that quotes a whole house without testing is either guessing or counting on you not asking afterward.
Every other price we charge is published, because homes are comparable by square footage. This one isn't.
Two houses the same size can have wildly different amounts of buildup depending on where the sprinkler heads point and how many seasons they've been pointing there. One might need two panes done. The next might need the entire south elevation. A published number would be wrong for both.
So it's quoted per pane or per job after the test patch — and it's never bundled into a cleaning invoice as a surprise line item. If we find buildup during a regular visit, we tell you and you decide separately.
Rain is naturally soft — it's distilled by evaporation before it ever falls. Your irrigation water is the same hard tap water as the rest of the house.
The Weber Basin Water Conservancy District, which wholesales to most of Davis County, reports hardness in the range of roughly 10 to 18 grains per gallon. Every time overspray lands on a window and dries in the sun, the water leaves and the minerals stay behind. Do that a few times and it wipes off. Do it for a few seasons and it doesn't.
The honest part is the whole service. Mineral buildup that has sat on glass for years can etch the surface permanently, and no product or process reverses that — at which point the only fix is replacing the pane. Plenty of companies will happily charge you for a full restoration and then explain afterward why the glass still looks like that. We test one area first and let you decide.
A free look, a test patch on your own glass, and a straight answer either way.
Get it looked ator call (801) 698-9900
