SeeForth cleans the glass and facades of offices, restaurants and residential buildings across the Square Mile, from Smithfield to Leadenhall Market. Our office is at 86-90 Paul Street, EC2, a few minutes from Old Street, so a City job is a short drive rather than a day's travel.
Request a quoteEvery area page on this site is built on work we have actually done there. These two jobs show the kind of building the City throws up and how we handled each one.
Leadenhall Market, EC3
High level reach and wash clean of the external glazing and an internal clean of the ground floor, carried out three times between September 2018 and March 2019. The building sits inside the covered Victorian market, so each visit was booked for a 6 am start, before the traders and the lunchtime crowd arrived. The client came back to us for a price on the awning and fascia after the first visit.
Long Lane, Smithfield, EC1
An urgent external and internal clean in April 2022. A slot opened up at short notice, we offered it that morning and the work was done the next day. Reach and wash from the pavement for the outside, hand tools and a squeegee inside, and a water mark free finish on both.
Rope access and MEWPs for office towers and residential blocks, planned around the building's anchors and the streets below. See our high rise window cleaning page for the access methods.
Reach and wash from the ground for buildings up to five storeys, on a monthly, quarterly or one-off basis. Ground floor frontages, shopfronts and restaurant glazing included. Details on the mid rise window cleaning page.
Partitions, atriums, lobby glazing and internal windows, cleaned with hand tools and a squeegee so the finish is streak free and the office can carry on working.
Soft washing of panels, render and stone at low pressure, so the finish comes clean without damage. See cladding and render cleaning.
Gutter clearance before the autumn leaves block the downpipes, and eyebolt testing so the anchors are certified before anyone goes over the parapet.
Offices, mixed-use buildings and blocks of flats across the City, assessed by IFSM registered Level 6 assessors. See fire risk assessments.
The City is a small area with a lot of rules, and most of them affect when and how we can get at the glass. This is how we plan around them.
Bank and Cornhill. Moorgate and London Wall. Liverpool Street and Bishopsgate. Leadenhall Street and Fenchurch Street. Aldgate and Tower Hill. St Paul's and Cheapside. Blackfriars and Fleet Street. Smithfield and the Barbican. Shoreditch and Clerkenwell sit just outside the boundary and are on our doorstep. For Docklands see our Canary Wharf page, and for the counties see Essex and Cambridge.
Reach and wash from the pavement does not usually need one. A MEWP, a cradle or any equipment standing on the public highway needs a licence from the City of London Corporation. We tell you at quotation whether your job needs one, and we allow for the lead time in the programme.
Our crews can start at 6 am, which is how the Leadenhall Market visits were booked. Weekend work is available where a weekday start would clash with deliveries or a busy pavement.
Yes. We use purified water fed through carbon fibre poles with soft brush heads, and no detergent. On stone and timber frontages that is the method conservation officers prefer, because nothing is left on the surface and there is no pressure on the fabric.
Yes. Both City jobs described on this page included an internal clean. Inside we use hand tools and a squeegee, wipe the frames and sills, and work around the office so nobody has to move out.
A typical office schedule is quarterly for the external glass and monthly for a ground floor frontage, which collects traffic film and hand marks faster than the upper floors. We suggest a frequency after seeing the building, and you can change it at any time.
Our office is at 86-90 Paul Street, London EC2A 4NE, a few minutes from Old Street and a short walk from Moorgate and Liverpool Street. Call 020 4634 3089 to talk to us about a building in the City.
Tell us the building and we will tell you how we would clean it. Call 020 4634 3089 or send the address and a photo.
Let us know which of our specialist cleaning or maintenance solutions you need.