Professional glass, screen, track, and hard water removal for Sarasota homes and businesses. Owner operated by David Westgate — you get David on every job.
Sarasota's Gulf Coast climate is beautiful — but salt air, humidity, and Florida's hard water leave windows looking cloudy and streaked faster than anywhere else. We use a purified water fed pole system that removes mineral deposits and delivers results that last.
From downtown condos to Palmer Ranch golf communities to the barrier islands — Sarasota properties face unique window challenges. Hard water from the municipal supply leaves calcium deposits. Salt air from the Gulf accelerates buildup. We have the right equipment and solutions for every Sarasota property type.
David has 20 years of professional operations experience and brings that same reliability and attention to detail to every window cleaning job in Sarasota.
Condos, apartments and commercial properties in the heart of the city.
Golf communities and large residential homes with multi-story windows.
Established neighborhood close to Siesta Key — popular with year-round residents.
Growing residential area east of downtown with newer construction homes.
Residential neighborhoods with a mix of older and newer construction homes.
Upscale golf community between Sarasota and Bradenton.
Sarasota's window cleaning challenges change block by block, because the city's architecture is genuinely split in two. In older, established neighborhoods — think the historic pockets around downtown, Gulf Gate, and South Sarasota — you'll still find original single-pane and early double-pane windows set in wood or aluminum frames from Sarasota's mid-century Spanish and Florida vernacular building boom. That glass is thinner, the seals are older, and the surrounding stucco and frame material is more porous, which means mineral deposits and grime work their way in rather than sitting on top. Cleaning these windows means slower, gentler work — the wrong pressure or the wrong chemical can etch old glass or strip a weathered frame finish.
Downtown and along the bayfront, it's a different property entirely: floor-to-ceiling, impact-rated coastal glass on mid-rise and high-rise condos. This glass is built to modern hurricane code, but its size and height mean more total surface area exposed to direct Gulf salt spray and unfiltered Florida sun. On these properties, the fight isn't age — it's exposure. Salt film and hard water spotting show up faster and more visibly on large, dark-tinted glass than they do on a smaller residential window, which is why downtown high-rise units are often the ones calling for service most frequently.
Sarasota's municipal water is drawn largely from the Floridan Aquifer, a limestone formation that loads tap water with dissolved calcium carbonate and magnesium. Every time that water evaporates off a window — from a sprinkler head, a passing rain shower, or a garden hose rinse — it leaves mineral residue behind. Left alone, UV exposure from the Florida sun bakes those deposits into the glass surface, which is what eventually creates permanent-looking etching rather than a simple surface film.
Add in the Gulf: prevailing onshore breezes carry a fine salt aerosol well inland, not just to waterfront homes. Between the mineral load in the water supply and the salt in the air, Sarasota glass accumulates buildup at a rate most cleaning companies from outside the region simply aren't set up to handle. That's the specific problem our purified water fed pole system is built to solve — it strips dissolved solids from the water itself, so nothing is left behind to bond to the glass as it dries.
It comes down to what's in the water and what's in the air. Sarasota's tap water carries dissolved calcium and magnesium from the limestone aquifer beneath the city, and Gulf salt air adds to the load. When that moisture evaporates off the glass, it leaves mineral deposits behind, and Florida's intense, near-year-round sun bakes those deposits in place. Untreated, that combination can leave windows looking permanently hazy in a year or two — a timeline you rarely see in drier, softer-water parts of the country.
Yes. Downtown high-rise glass is coastal-rated and exposed to direct salt spray and constant sun, so it spots quickly and often requires coordinating interior access with building management. Homes in Palmer Ranch, Gulf Gate, and similar neighborhoods usually have more total glass, ground-floor sprinkler overspray that etches lower panes, and multi-story sections that call for pole-fed reach instead of ladder work.
Most Sarasota properties do well on a 3 to 4 month cycle given how quickly salt and mineral buildup accumulates here. Waterfront homes and properties with heavy irrigation overspray often benefit from staying on the quarterly end of that range, while inland homes with less exposure can sometimes stretch to twice a year.
David personally visits your Sarasota property, assesses the job, and gives you a firm transparent price. No surprises.
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