Recent project
Window Cleaning for Hamilton Southeastern Schools
Hamilton Southeastern is one of the largest school districts in Indiana, and the building stock shows it. Newer high school and intermediate buildings are wrapped in storefront glass and clerestory windows. Older elementary buildings have been added onto more than once, so one wall is 1970s aluminum and the next one is ten years old. Then there are the administration and support facilities spread around Fishers.
Walden cleans exterior and interior glass on school buildings like these. The hard part is almost never the cleaning itself. It is the sequencing.
How we run a district this size
A district this size does not want a crew showing up unannounced in the middle of a passing period. Before we start we build a route, tell the facilities director which buildings we are on which days, and then hold to it.
- One schedule covering every building, agreed before we start, so your staff always know where our vans are.
- One point of contact and one invoice, itemized building by building, instead of a stack of separate tickets.
- Entrances, offices and commons first. That is the glass families and visitors actually look through.
- Clerestory and gym glass planned around the sports calendar, and around summer break when we can take the extra time a lift or a pole system needs.
- Interior partition glass priced separately and openly, so you can add it or drop it without us rebuilding the whole quote.
- Certificates of insurance in your hands before the first van pulls in.
Working around students
On occupied buildings we start early and work the public-facing elevations first, so the visible glass is finished before the doors open. Equipment stays out of walkways and off accessible routes. If a building is in session we would rather split the work across two mornings than have ladders up while students are moving between classes. Anything that needs a lift gets scheduled for a break or a weekend.
What school glass usually needs
Two problems come up on almost every school building we look at. The first is irrigation spray on ground-floor glass, which leaves mineral deposits ordinary washing will not lift. The second is handprints and scuffing on entry doors, which build up faster there than anywhere else in the building.
We handle both on a normal visit. But if a pane has hard water etching that has gone into the glass itself, we tell you that up front instead of scrubbing at it and charging you for the time.
More buildings across the district
A district route is never one building. These are two more we work.
Next step
Let us walk your buildings.
If you handle facilities for Hamilton Southeastern or any district in Hamilton County, we will come out, look at the glass, and price it building by building before you commit to anything.