Services
Commercial Window Cleaning
From smudged entry doors and glass-walled conference rooms to storefronts and third-floor office windows, Ora Commercial Cleaning keeps the glass on low-rise commercial buildings clear across Northern California and Reno.
Glass is the first thing visitors judge
Before anyone reads your sign or reaches the front desk, they look through your glass. Palm prints on the entry door, a gray film across the storefront and water spots baked onto upper windows by a long dry summer all tell a visitor that nobody is watching the building closely. Clear glass says the opposite, and it lets daylight do its job inside.
Ora Commercial Cleaning takes care of the glass on low-rise commercial property, anything up to three floors, on both faces of every pane. Crews cover the region from the Bay Area through Sacramento and the Central Valley to Reno, with service in cities such as Oakland, San Jose, Stockton and Fresno.
Interior glass, from the front door inward
Entry doors and their sidelights take more hands than any other surface in the building. Crews clean both faces of each door and sidelight and wipe the push bars and handles beside them, so the glass a visitor touches first looks cared for rather than tolerated.
Deeper in the building, a conference room with glass walls shows every fingerprint left at shoulder height, plus the faint outline of last week’s whiteboard sketch. Partitions, office fronts, the lobby’s glass panels and stairwell windows are cleaned until they disappear again, and display cases on showroom and sales floors are polished on every pane you unlock for the crew.
Storefronts and upper windows on low-rise buildings
Outside, the crew washes, squeegees and edge-dries each storefront pane and ground-floor window, then runs a cloth along the frames, sills and tracks beneath them while they are there. Grit left in a track only streaks back down the glass with the next rain or the morning sprinklers.
Second- and third-floor glass gets done without anyone leaving the pavement. Filtered water travels up a water-fed pole to the head of each window and carries the dirt down with it, so no ladder leans against your facade. Where a pane wants hand detailing, or shrubs and planters keep the pole from reaching, the crew switches to a ladder or a lift, and Ora sends a certificate of insurance for your file before any lift rolls onto the property.
A calendar for each kind of glass
Ground-level glass faces the street, the doors and the parking lot, so it dulls quickly and usually earns a weekly or twice-a-month visit. Windows higher up and inside office suites stay presentable longer, and a monthly or quarterly visit keeps them that way. The calendar for each building follows how quickly its own glass gets dirty.
Single visits are there for the days that count: when a remodel or new build-out leaves drywall dust, paint specks and sticker residue on new panes, when a suite is being readied for its next occupant, or when a showing or an inspector is on the calendar. The suite itself can get a turnover or post-construction clean on that trip.
Glass work is timed so it never crowds your business day: first thing in the morning, once the doors are locked at night or across a weekend. If Ora already cleans your building on a janitorial schedule, the interior glass can join your evening visits, and exterior panes follow a rotation of their own.
What window cleaning costs in 2026
For 2026, published industry price guides put the glass of a street-level shop, inside and outside, at about $85 to $290 per visit in Northern California and the Reno region. An office building of one, two or three stories typically runs roughly $275 to $950 per visit.
Several things move a building up or down those ranges. The glass itself leads the list, counted pane by pane and sized up, followed by whether the crew cleans only the outside or the interior faces as well. Height and access set the tools, and a pole from the sidewalk is quicker than a lift. Frame and track detailing lengthens a visit, as does a long stretch between visits, because dirt that sits for months comes off slower. The opening visit at a neglected or newly built property carries mineral spotting and construction film that later visits will not, and an after-hours start is factored in when you need one.
Ora walks the property with you, counts the glass, notes every height and access point, and sends back a written quote and a visit calendar built around the building.
Buildings that put their glass on show
Glass matters most where customers and tenants see it every day. That covers retail storefronts and shopping centers, restaurants with glass fronts and patio doors, bank branches, dealership showrooms, medical and dental offices, hotels, apartment leasing offices and office buildings.
On a business park or a property with several tenants, the whole property can be covered in one trip, building by building, while the busiest storefronts get a tighter rotation of their own. Supervisors check the finished glass during quality inspections, and background-checked crews move through occupied space quietly, without interrupting the work going on around them.
A few useful answers
Common questions.
Can the windows be cleaned before our store opens?
Yes. Storefront and entry glass can be finished at dawn, once you lock up for the night or on a Saturday or Sunday, so shoppers never step around a squeegee bucket.
Do you wipe down the window frames and sills as well?
Yes. Every exterior visit includes a wipe of the frames, sills and tracks, which keeps loose grit from running back onto freshly cleaned panes.
What happens on the first clean after a construction project?
Glass on a new build-out comes with paint specks, sticker glue and a film of drywall dust. The crew removes all of it from the panes, frames and tracks first, and that opening visit is priced on its own because it runs longer than the routine visits that follow.
Can interior glass be added to our regular janitorial service?
Yes. Entry doors, partitions and lobby panels can join the nightly cleaning you already have, while outside windows keep their own calendar.
Is a lift needed for our second-floor windows?
Rarely. Glass on the second and third floors is usually reached by a water-fed pole worked from the pavement. A ladder or lift is brought in when a pane wants hand detailing or a canopy blocks the pole.