Window cleaning & gutters
Homes counted pane by pane, storefronts as route stops weekly, every two weeks or monthly, buildings by water-fed pole, lift or rope access — and a commercial-routes page on your website. Daybook speaks window cleaner.
Window cleaning is a route trade, so Daybook wears the route shape for it — the same shape it opened for snow and ice — and not a contractor’s. A house is not a job site, it is a property on the route; a visit is a visit, not a site visit; a new job starts as a repeat rather than a one-off; and the schedule opens on the map, because the question before the shops open is which storefronts, in what order. It is its own trade underneath, not the cleaning template with the nouns swapped — nothing here says housekeeping. Residential inside & out, storefront route, commercial & mid-rise, high-rise & rope access, post-construction, eaves & gutters and solar panels are its own service types; a property setup sheet, a visit log and a post-construction sign-off are its own checklists; the starter price list runs from one pane to one rope drop; and the words on the screen are a window cleaner’s.
The builder’s clean is the part that earns its keep, because that is the job where a scratch becomes an argument. A post-construction job attaches a sign-off that asks the questions in the order that protects you: was any pane scratched or damaged before you started — photograph it and tell the site super before a blade touches the glass — then what was done on every pane (stickers and labels off, paint, stucco and mortar off, silicone haze removed, tracks and sills vacuumed, screens washed and refitted, frames wiped), whether anything was found afterwards, what was flagged to the builder, photos of every elevation, and the site super’s signature. The job cannot be marked complete until it is answered.
On top of everything Daybook does for every trade — the full list is here — window cleaning gets its own tools.
A new job starts as a repeat rather than a one-off. Set a shop to weekly, every two weeks or monthly and the stops are written onto the schedule ninety days out, topped up each time one is marked done — so a route you sold in March is still on the calendar in June. A post-construction clean, a one-time spring clean or a gutter call stays a single visit.
For a window cleaner the schedule leads with the map: the day’s properties as numbered stops in driving order, the drive time and distance above the list, the order yours to drag — or press Optimize, see what the new order saves, and Apply it. Useful on a storefront morning, when the whole job is the order. The calendar is one tap away.
The gate code and access notes sit on every job, and when nothing is on file the job says so and links to the client’s page. The property setup sheet holds the rest: panes, storeys, skylights and screens counted; the cadence; what is included — outside, inside, screens, tracks & sills, skylights, gutters, solar panels; the alarm and where a ladder may go; whether the water-fed pole reaches everything or a lift or rope access is needed; and what to watch for — tinted or filmed glass, cracked or fogged sealed units, leaded glass, painted-shut sashes.
Panes outside only, inside & out or inside only, divided lites by the lite, storm windows, screens, tracks and sills, skylights, sunrooms, hard-water stains and silicone; storefront stops weekly, every two weeks or monthly; commercial by water-fed pole, mid-rise by lift, high-rise by the rope drop, curtain wall by the square foot; post-construction by the pane or by the home with a scratch inspection and report; gutters by the foot or by the home, downspouts, soffit and fascia, solar panels by the panel; and the lifts, the pole system, the rope rig, the height premium and downtown parking and permits — a labelled starter list on day one, with your own prices on it.
One entry per visit: the date, time in and out, what was cleaned (outside, inside, doors and entrance glass, screens, tracks and sills, skylights, gutters, solar panels), the method — water-fed pole, squeegee and ladder, lift, rope access — how many panes were skipped because they were locked, blocked or unsafe, whether a cracked, scratched or fogged pane was found, notes written for the client, and photos. The property setup sheet and the post-construction sign-off come with it.
Pane and lite, inside & out, route stop, water-fed pole and pure water, squeegee, screens, tracks and sills, skylights, storeys, lift and rope access, gutters, property — drafts and job summaries use a window cleaner’s vocabulary, and the auto-classifier files a shop every second Monday as a storefront route, a tower face as high-rise & rope access, a builder’s stickers and silicone as post-construction, and the eaves you clear while the ladder is up as gutters.
This is not copy — it is what the app says to window cleaning businesses, word for word. Most trades see the left-hand word; you see the right.
Your account starts with a real window cleaning site template — a commercial-routes page included — edit it in the app, and the quote-request form drops leads straight into Daybook with the property address already on them.
Your own shops beat any feature list — set one to every two weeks and the visits are on the schedule three months out.
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