Window cleaning in Lake Forest

The older half of the city — the Lake Forest Keys and the tracts around it — is 1970s building under the eucalyptus and sycamore that gave the place its name. Those trees are the dominant fact of maintenance here: gutters that fill for real, roof valleys that hold litter, and a sticky residue on glass and cars under certain trees that needs washing rather than rinsing.

Foothill Ranch, Portola Hills and Baker Ranch are newer and higher, tucked against the hills, with taller houses and more exposure to dust and wind off the open ground above them. Grit on the glass after a Santa Ana is normal, and so is a dusty solar array losing output through the back half of summer.