Cottage Window Cleaning & Lighting | Georgian Bay & Lake Huron

The season

Two visits, booked a year ahead.

Most cottage owners want the same two dates every year: the week before they open up, and the week after they close down. Tell us yours once and they're in the book. We confirm by text before each one, and you don't have to be there.

Late April to May

Opening up

A winter of pollen, spray and cobwebs comes off before your first weekend. You arrive to glass you can actually see the water through.

October to early November

Closing down

Glass, frames and screens done before everything gets shut up, so the screens go away clean and dry instead of sitting in a shed all winter.

Any time

Between renters

Renting it out? Add a mid-season clean between bookings. Photos of the finished job come to your phone the same day.

Why lake glass is different

Big windows, hard water, nobody watching.

Waterfront glass takes a beating a house in town never sees. Wind-driven spray dries to a mineral film, sap drops from the pines above it, and there's usually nobody there for weeks to notice any of it building up.

Mineral film, not dirt. Left season after season it etches into the glass and stops coming off at all.
Water-access and steep lots. Tell us how you get in. We've worked enough shoreline to plan around it.
You don't need to be there. Key, lockbox or a neighbour. Photos of the finished job the same day.

A lakeside picture window, hazy with mineral film on one half and freshly cleaned on the other

And then the sun goes down

You arrive at ten at night, in the dark, every time.

Everyone leaves the city after work on Friday. Everyone gets there after dark. And a cottage that's been empty all week has nothing on, so you're finding the steps by phone light with an armful of groceries.

An unlit cottage at night, seen up a gravel driveway in headlights

Permanent lighting, at the lake

The place is lit before you turn in the driveway.

A permanent track along the roofline, on a schedule that follows sunset. It comes on whether you're there or not, which is the point. A cottage with lights on reads as occupied from the road in February, and that's worth more up here than it is in town.

Looks lived-in all winter. The single cheapest thing you can do about an empty shoreline property.
Nothing to put up or take down. No seasonal trip just to deal with lights.
Built for this climate. A cUL certified system, sealed and permanently installed, not a seasonal string.

How permanent lighting works

Warm-white permanent lighting on a cottage roofline at blue hour

Dark sky

Nobody comes to the Bay for the light pollution.

The diodes sit inside the track and face down at your own wall, so the light lands on the building rather than out over the water. Set a bedtime and it's off. Most cottage owners run it warm white from sunset to eleven and never touch it again. If your township or association has a lighting bylaw, tell us at the quote and we'll work to it.

The usual order

Clean first, light later.

Most cottage customers start with the two cleans, see how we work, and get the lighting quoted the following spring. That's a perfectly good order to do it in and we'll never push you off it.

Or both at once

One trip up, two jobs done.

If you're having it lit anyway, booking the closing-down clean for the same week saves us a drive and saves you a day of waiting around. Ask for both on the quote form and we'll schedule them together.

Tell us where it is and how you get in.

Water access, a steep lot, a gate code, a neighbour with the key: none of it is a problem, we just need to know.

Get a free quote

We work the Georgian Bay and Lake Huron shoreline, from Owen Sound and Meaford through Thornbury, Wiarton, Sauble Beach, Southampton and up the Bruce.