Shopfront window cleaning

The difference is not rhetorical, it is technical. On a domestic window you look through the glass. On a shopfront you look into it, and the glass is lit from inside by spotlights that reveal everything a rough wash leaves behind: unrinsed detergent haze, the squeegee mark at the end of the pass, the fibre from a cloth left in a corner.

What the visit covers on a frontage:

• the main glass, outside and inside, with no final wiping
• the glazed door and the entrance lobby, routinely missed
• the bottom of the window, at street splash height
• the door handles and push plates, degreased
• the applied signage and window graphics, worked around carefully

The sum follows our estimate: width × height of each pane on the frontage, added up; 25 MAD incl. VAT per m², both sides included. A shop with two panes of 2.5 m × 2.4 m and a glazed door of 1 m × 2.2 m totals 14.2 m², so 355 MAD: a 645 MAD top-up brings it to the 1,000 MAD shop minimum.

Its 1.5 m flat fascia sign would come to 150 MAD, raised to the 200 MAD minimum and added afterwards: 1,200 MAD incl. VAT in all. A showroom with 48 m² of shop windows and 10 m² of glass inside clears the minimum on its own: 1,200 + 150 = 1,350 MAD incl. VAT.

The glazed band above the signage is worked by pole from the ground when it sits between 3 and 5 metres, at +25% with feasibility confirmed on photos; above 5 metres, we do not do it. The detail is on pole cleaning at height.

Three types of soiling dominate on a frontage, and none behaves like the dust veil on a villa window.

Fingerprints. Greasy, concentrated between 90 cm and 1.40 m, and water-repellent: without local degreasing first, water runs around them and they are still visible once the glass dries.

Street grease. On a busy road, the pollution film mixes hydrocarbons and dust. It does not rinse, it has to be lifted. A shop window declared very dirty, with no paint or cement, takes +20% on the base; that is said beforehand, never found on the invoice.

Window graphics. Applied lettering, promotional stickers and frosted film are washed by contact, never with a squeegee run at full length: a blade edge lifts the corner of a vinyl in a single pass. The edges are done by hand. Removing an old vinyl altogether counts as encrusted adhesive, at +40%, as on window cleaning after building work.

A business that cooks creates a problem no shop knows: greasy condensation. Cooking vapour rises, condenses on the inner face of the glass and leaves an oily film that traps dust immediately. The result is glass that looks dirty two days after the visit.

Two practical consequences. First, the inner face needs systematic degreasing before washing, which is not the case in a clothes shop. Second, the useful frequency is higher: on a restaurant frontage a weekly rhythm holds, a monthly one does not.

The same vapour settles on the glass between the dining room and the kitchen. It counts as glass inside the shop, at 15 MAD incl. VAT per m².

The most common complaint against cleaning companies in this city is not the quality of the work: it is the appointment that is not kept, with no call and no explanation. For a retailer that does not mean inconvenience, it means opening on a Saturday morning with a dirty frontage.

How we work on shopfronts:

• visits before opening or after closing, never during busy hours
• date and slot set when the job is confirmed, from the day after your request, and confirmed again in writing the day before
• the name of the person attending given with the confirmation
• checklist signed on site, item by item, and a free re-do within 48 hours on any ticked item found not up to standard

For a showroom in Sidi Ghanem, the same discipline applies to the display glass and to the aluminium around it.

Location decides more than the type of business does.

• Frontage on a busy road, ground floor: weekly. The pollution film rebuilds within days.
• Shop in a sheltered retail street: fortnightly in normal season, weekly through the chergui.
• Showroom on a business park with parking: fortnightly to monthly; the dust is mineral and dry, and it rinses off easily.
• Restaurant with an open kitchen: weekly, internal degreasing included.

Let us be precise about what frequency changes: every visit is priced on the same grid, shop minimum included, the tenth at the same price as the first. What a regular rhythm spares you is the supplements — +20% for a very dirty shop window, +40% for an encrusted deposit — because a recent deposit rinses while an old one has to be scraped.

The full grid sits on our glazing rates. For an estimate, give the width and height of each pane, the sign if there is one, and the timing you want from our enquiry page.