Window cleaning in Megève, from small panes to full glass walls
In Megève, one property often holds two ages of glass: the small panes of a restored building and the glazed wall of its extension. We wash both with pure water, from Mont d'Arbois down to the centre of the village.
At 1113 metres, glass does not get dirty the way it does higher up
Megève sits at around 1113 metres, and that changes everything for glazing. Snow here often falls wet, mild spells alternate with frost, the main road throws salt and spray onto the windows at the bottom of the village, and the damp of the valley leaves a grey film that comes back quickly. Add the village's double nature: restored Savoyard buildings, with their original frames and glazing bars, stand next to fully glazed extensions built behind them. We come up from Ugine by way of Flumet in forty minutes, with poles and demineralised water, and we match the method to the glass, from the small pane to the glazed gable worked at height.
One chalet, two ages of glass
Many Megève properties gather into a single building what other resorts keep apart: a restored Savoyard house, its original frames and glazing bars, extended by a contemporary wing whose glass wall runs down to the slab. Both are washed on the same day, with two methods that have nothing in common.
- Small panes by hand, not a drop on the wood
- Large wall on the pole, finished in raking light
- One visit, one quote
Shopfronts in the pedestrian centre, before opening
In the pedestrian centre the window is half the shop sign, and winter works against it: slush thrown up by the horse carriages and the delivery vans, road salt, condensation that returns as soon as the shop warms up. We come early in the morning, before the first customers, and we always go back over the bottom of the window, which the street dirties first.
- A pass before opening, shop by shop
- Lower pane and threshold redone every visit
Window cleaning in Megève: six things we do
Wide bays and the view onto the massif
A sheet of glass running the full height of the living room is judged against the light, when the sun drops behind the Mont Joly: we go back over every bay in raking light before packing up.
Windows at height
A chalet built into the slope shows three more metres of glass on the downhill side. A pure-water pole gets to 12 m there without scaffolding, working from the terrace or the bank above.
Shopfronts in the pedestrian centre
Village shops open late in the morning in winter: we come before that, while the street is still empty, to lift the slush spray and the marks left the day before.
Old buildings and small panes
A restored Savoyard chalet can carry eighty panes in its original frames: that is washed by hand, pane by pane, a dry cloth on the wood and never a trickle onto the putty.
Two seasons, two visits
Megève works in winter and through a real summer: one wash before the December opening, another in June, once conifer pollen and hay dust have settled on the glass.
Facades and cladding
Old timber is not treated like new cladding: low pressure, gentle product, and the stone base rinsed in the same pass.
What we guarantee on every pane
Pure water, nothing else
Demineralised, no detergent: it dries leaving nothing behind, which matters on old frames that cleaning products eventually dull.
The method chosen for the glass
Squeegee by hand on small panes, pole on the large walls and on anything worked at height: a Megève property usually needs both in the same visit.
Forty minutes, not an expedition
The Val d'Arly brings us to you within the morning: a quote in 24h, work 7 days a week in season, even for a single chalet.
In Megève too, half the invoice comes off
If you own a chalet or a flat that you use yourself, cleaning your windows counts as a service à la personne and the Urssaf covers half of it. Properties that are rented out stay outside the scheme.
- The Urssaf takes half the invoice, so you never front the rest.
- Valid in your main home and in your second home alike.
- A credit, not a deduction: you receive it even if you pay no income tax.
-50%
of your invoice, taken off at the moment you pay.
How it worksFor private clients only, for work carried out in your own home, up to the annual ceiling. Under article 199 sexdecies of the French tax code.
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Our window round about Megève
Megève itself is quickly crossed, but its hamlets are spread out: we give a two-hour window rather than an exact time, and we call as we leave Ugine.
- Megèveheart of the zone
- Mont d'Arboison site
- Rochebruneon site
- Demi-Quartier5 min
- Praz-sur-Arly5 min
- Combloux10 min
- Saint-Gervais15 min
- Flumet15 min
- Ugineour base, 40 min
Is your property in Cordon, over towards Sallanches or higher up by Le Jaillet? Tell us: the valley is organised as one round.
FAQ
Windows in Megève: your questions
What owners and shopkeepers in the village ask us most often.
By hand, pane by pane, with a narrow squeegee and a dry cloth passed straight over the glazing bars. On an original frame, water sitting in a rebate does more harm than the dirt itself: so we work with very little water, never a hose, and dry the wood as we go. It takes considerably longer than a smooth wall of the same area, which is why we price it separately in the quote.
That is the most common case here, and it is planned for. The outside needs nobody present: we work from the grounds and you get photographs of the result the same day. Inside access only needs a key: your caretaker, your neighbour or your agency can hold one for us. We confirm the date in advance, we tell you what we find on site, a broken shutter or a trace of damp, and we lock up behind us. Payment comes after the work, not before.
Twelve metres from stable footing, which covers the vast majority of chalets in the area, including glazed gables over two floors. The telescopic pole is set up on the ground, the terrace or the bank above, so no lift blocks a narrow village street on a busy morning. Above twelve metres, or on a steeply pitched roof, we say so at the quote stage and point you to a rope-access firm rather than improvise.
Both, for different reasons. Before December the glass still carries autumn dust and the marks of off-season works; a visit then lasts until the February holidays. In June it is conifer pollen and hay dust that need lifting, otherwise the first storm bakes them on for the whole summer. A third pass, around March, is mainly worth it for properties let continuously.
Because at eleven hundred metres the winter is wet. Higher up the snow stays dry and slides off without marking; here it melts, refreezes, then dries leaving a whitish deposit, and the main road adds its salt and spray along the whole valley floor. In practice a house at the bottom of the village needs one more visit a year than a chalet up on the slopes, and it is the foot of the bays, not the top, that asks for the work again.
No. The benefit is reserved for people who are tax resident in France, whatever the owner's nationality. Many chalets in Megève belong to families based abroad: we work for them in exactly the same way, simply at the standard rate and outside the scheme.
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