S/O - how often do you wash your windows?

wash windows??

I never open my drapes so they don't bother me at all

Inside and out once a year, usually in the fall. Then as needed throughout the rest of the year. I can’t stand handprints and smudges. My kitchen windows and front & back doors and storm doors get done most frequently, probably once a month. I clean my own windows.

Wash my what?

Outside windows - depends when a crew shows up and asks if we want to have our windows cleaned. They showed up last fall so I figure we're good for a couple years now.

Inside - the patio doors get washed fairly frequently since they get covered with grandbaby fingerprints and animal slober. The rest of the indoor windows - other than the kitchen, I don't think I have ever washed them.

maybe once a year.. we can't reach windows that are outside..too high.

If I had someone to come around and clean the outside for a low price, they would be cleaned monthly. As it is now, they dont get cleaned very often, although I know they need to be

I hate washing windows.
The living room is two-story and the front window is four casement windows high plus a big arch window on top. I’d need to get on a ladder to wash even the inside of it. Not doing that.

We started having a window washing service come in and do inside and out several years ago. Unfortunately Andy has brain cancer and can no longer keep his business going. I hired another company and had all the windows done this summer. It had been a while but they actually weren’t too horrible. It is nicer with them washed, and I will clean the back door, which is mostly glass, when it’s needed. The rest I’ll hire done.

It does seem that our UK friends who get theirs washed frequently are having the outside done. Except for the living room window and the round one over the front door, I have screens on the outside of all the windows, so that would make that option more time consuming and not so easy (you have to unlatch the screens from the inside).

Once a year on the inside. Some of the outside I can reach easily but most get washed when we have the house washed down once a year at most. I don't know anyone here who washes their windows more than once per year.

Spring and fall when I clean the track...if I get to it

Previous houses I would say never and it wasn't an issue to see out them

Inside - once a month

Outside - when it rains.

The only time in 17 yrs that we have had bird droppings on our windows is when a bird has built a nest above a window.

Yearly. I may wipe down the tracks more often.

I guess it depends on how the homes are built. My house doesn’t have a way for birds to sit directly above a window. On my house, the outside window frame sit flush with the walls. And the roofline of my house hangs over the windows quite a bit. For bird poop to get on my window, there would have to be perfect timing between the bird pooping and a gust of wind. We go have birds, little ones, tons of crows and a few hawks too. Never had bird poop on the windows.

The windows I look out of get washed when the dog’s nose art starts to obscure my view, so maybe every 3-4 weeks (mainly just the patio door and the front storm door window). The other ones? Meh. Most of our upstairs windows always have curtains over them so we never look out and I’d have to have a really good reason to wash them. I do take off the screens sometimes and get the cottonwood fuzz off of them though. That obscures the view more than any smudges or dirt on the windows.