High-rise window cleaning in London
Overview
A specialised technique used by our highly trained technicians to descend high-rise buildings and manoeuvre in different directions.
Complex architecture
Buildings with curves, angles, delicate features, glass facades, or recessed windows.
Mixed-use developments
Allows for precision cleaning when a property has multiple occupants.
Minimal disruption
Quick deployment with minimal equipment means less noise, less visual impact, and less disruption for occupants.
Little ground space
Aside from access points, this technique requires no ground space.
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Delivering high standards, safely
Meet Norbert, a seasoned IRATA Level 3 Supervisor with nearly 20 years' experience leading complex rope access operations
Norbert is an IRATA Level 3 Supervisor with nearly 20 years in rope access across Europe and the Middle East. He has led work on 75-storey buildings, iconic bridges, wind farms, oil and gas platforms and lighthouses. Calm, organised and resilient, he delivers safely on some of the world's most challenging sites.
Overview
We utilise MEWPs to safely and efficiently access hard-to-reach areas on low to mid-rise buildings for services such as window cleaning, gutter clearance, facade maintenance, and inspections. MEWPs, including scissor lifts and boom lifts, provide a stable and controlled platform for our operatives to work at height with precision.
Elevate
Quicker, safer access to high areas, with less disruption and a shorter time on site.
Time
Reducing downtime and keeping your project on schedule
Precision
Enables accurate work at height with minimal disruption to daily operations.
Efficiency
Speeds up access to high areas, reducing labour time and keeping projects on track.
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High rise window cleaning in London, planned around your building
We clean the glass, frames and facades of tall buildings across London: office towers in the City and Canary Wharf, residential blocks, student accommodation and mixed-use schemes.
Every job starts with the building itself, meaning its height, its roof anchors, the ground below and the people inside. The access method follows from that, and we explain why in the quotation.
Which access method suits your building?
There is no single right way to clean a tall building. We choose the method that is safest for our operatives and least disruptive for the people inside.
Rope access
Technicians descend on two independent ropes from tested roof anchors. Ideal for towers, curved elevations and recessed glazing, with almost no ground space needed.
MEWP or spider lift
Cherry pickers, boom lifts and tracked spider lifts where there is hard standing. We arrange pavement licences and exclusion zones on busy streets.
BMU out of service
Many City towers rely on a building maintenance unit. If yours is awaiting repair or inspection, rope access keeps the cleaning programme running.
Reach and wash
Purified water through carbon-fibre poles from the ground, with no ladders and no detergent.
Safe, documented work on every drop
Working at height on an occupied building leaves no room for guesswork. Every high rise clean is planned, documented and supervised, and you get the paperwork your insurer and landlord will ask for.
- Planned under the Work at Height Regulations 2005, following the hierarchy of control
- Site-specific RAMS issued before work starts, with a named supervisor on site
- Roof anchors and eye bolts checked for a current test certificate before any rope is rigged. We can carry out eye-bolt testing ourselves
- Exclusion zones at ground level, and occupants told each morning which elevations are in use
How a high rise clean runs
From the first site survey to the photo report, you know what is happening, when, and who is on your roof.
Survey
We look at the building, the roof, the anchors and the ground below, and ask for the O&M manual or access strategy where there is one.
Quotation and RAMS
A fixed price per visit or per programme, with the access method explained and the RAMS attached.
Scheduling
Early starts, evenings or weekends where occupants need it, with each elevation notified before we start.
Clean and inspect
Glass, frames and sills cleaned drop by drop. While on the facade we note failed sealant, damaged panels or loose fixings.
Report
Photographs of the finished elevations and anything that needs attention, plus a certificate of completion for your records.
Rope access window cleaning on a student tower in the summer break
For a national student accommodation provider in Colchester, we soft-washed the render and cleaned every window on a tower and its neighbouring block, working by IRATA-trained rope access from the roof and by tracked spider lift where the ground allowed.
- Site team told each morning which elevations were in use, with the buildings empty for the summer break
- Render washed at low pressure to protect the acrylic finish
- Every affected window cleaned a second time after the render wash, plus three glass entrance canopies
High rise window cleaning across London
We are based on Paul Street, EC2, a few minutes from Old Street, so the City is on our doorstep.
City of London
Moorgate, Liverpool Street, Bank, St Paul's, Barbican, Shoreditch and Clerkenwell.
Canary Wharf and Docklands
Office and residential towers across the Isle of Dogs and the Royal Docks.
Central, South and West London
Southwark, London Bridge, the South Bank, Westminster, Victoria, King's Cross and Stratford.
Beyond London
Essex, Hertfordshire and Cambridge, including student accommodation and university estates.
What affects the price
High rise window cleaning is priced per building, not per window. The main factors are:
- The number of drops and the height of each
- The access method, and whether roof anchors need testing first
- How often you want it done. Planned programmes cost less per visit
- Out-of-hours working, road closures or pavement licences
- Extras such as frames, cladding or canopies on the same visit
Rated excellent for communication by a student accommodation client
"Good comms, great team."
Contact us about your property
Let us know which of our specialist cleaning or maintenance solutions you need.