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How often should a business clean its windows?
For a storefront the glass is doing sales work, and it stops working long before it looks dirty to the people inside.
The trap with commercial glass is that it gets dirty slowly enough that the people who see it every day stop noticing. A customer arriving for the first time has no such excuse.
| Business | Typical schedule | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Restaurants and cafés | Weekly to every two weeks | Handprints at the entrance build fast, and they read as a hygiene signal |
| Retail | Every two weeks | The display behind the glass is only as good as the glass |
| Offices | Monthly | Less traffic, fewer hands on the doors |
| Warehouses and industrial | Quarterly | Unless there is a reception area, which is an office |
In winter, street-level glass also picks up road spray and salt.
Our schedules run from weekly to once a year. Every three weeks is a common one: often enough for a busy door, without paying for weekly visits.
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