Window cleaning in Coto de Caza

Coto de Caza is a gated community in the foothills, built around a golf club and an equestrian centre, and the houses match the setting: estate lots, two storeys of windows facing the view, French doors along the back, and skylights and clerestories most tracts never have. A full clean here is a day's work rather than a morning's, and much of it is high glass done from the ground with water-fed poles rather than from a ladder set on a hillside.

Inland and up against the wilderness park, the dirt is dust rather than salt. It blows in off the open hills and the arenas, settles on glass after every Santa Ana, and builds up on the big rooftop arrays that most homes here carry, so solar panel cleaning earns its keep here more than at the coast. Mature oaks over long rooflines mean gutters that fill properly every autumn.