What window cleaning costs in Sydney (2026, real numbers)
Window cleaning in Sydney starts from $150. Most single-storey homes land between $150 and $550, priced by window count; a second storey adds about 40%. Tracks, screens and access move the number — the suburb does not. Those are Schmick's published prices: the instant quote turns your address into a firm, bookable figure in about 60 seconds, no site visit.
The price, stated plainly
Window cleaning in Sydney starts at $150 with Schmick, and most single-storey homes finish somewhere between $150 and $550. The spread is not haggling room — it is window count. A two-bedroom semi with a dozen panes sits at the bottom of the range. A renovated place with walls of glass and a skylight habit sits at the top. Add a second storey and the price rises by about 40%, because everything above the ground floor takes longer and needs more gear.
Those numbers come from our live price book — the one every job is actually priced from, not a brochure figure that evaporates on contact with your house. We publish them because the alternative is the industry standard: a vague starting price, a site visit, and a number that mysteriously grows once you have invested an afternoon in the process. You should be able to know what glass costs before anyone knocks on your door.
Window count does most of the work
Price a window clean and one input dwarfs the rest: how much glass you own. Not the suburb, not the postcode, not what the car in the driveway suggests you can afford. A modest home in Vaucluse and a modest home in Lane Cove with the same twenty windows pay the same. So before you compare quotes, walk the house and count. Every pane is a unit of work — glass, frame and sill — and the total is the backbone of the price.
Different windows are different amounts of that work, which is the other half of the range. Colonial grids and French doors mean more edges per square metre of view. Louvres are slow by design. Big fixed panes are quick. None of this needs a tradesperson squinting at your architraves to price it — it needs an honest count and a price book that maps count to dollars. That is the whole model: $150 to $550 for most single-storey homes, positioned by how much glass you actually have.
Height, tracks and screens — where the price moves
A second storey adds about 40%. That is not a loading for nerves — it is time. Upper glass means water-fed poles, ladder work where poles cannot reach, and slower, more careful movement around gardens and rooflines. Everything takes longer when the window is four metres up. The 40% is the honest average of that extra effort, and it is the same figure whether the second storey is in Mosman or anywhere else on the North Shore.
Tracks and screens are the other levers. Glass-only is the base job. Add tracks and someone is vacuuming grit, dead insects and a decade of Sydney dust out of every runner so your sliders glide instead of grind. Add screens and each one comes off, gets washed, dries and goes back on. Both are worth doing and both take real time, so both move the price. The quote asks; you choose. No surprise line items on the day.
Why we publish prices and quote by address
Most cleaning outfits treat their prices like state secrets. You call, they visit, they look around, then a number appears. We think that is backwards. Your address already says how big the house is, how many storeys it has and how much glass is likely on it — which is everything the price depends on. So we price from the address and skip the driveway theatre entirely. Nobody visits. Nobody circles your house with a clipboard.
The trade-off is stated up front: the price is firm and it holds unless the place is materially different from what the address suggests — a glass extension the records missed, say. In practice that is rare. What you get in exchange is a real number before you commit an hour of your life, and a company that cannot quietly price you higher because the street looked expensive. Published prices keep us honest. That is rather the point.
Bundling, and getting your exact number
One more lever: bundling. Windows share a visit well. Pair them with a gutter clean or a house soft wash and the combined job runs 5–15% cheaper than booking each separately, because the travel, setup and access gear get paid for once instead of twice. If the outside of the house is generally overdue, one combined visit is the cheaper way to catch up — and the glass always looks better when the frames around it are clean too.
As for your exact number — the instant quote reads the live price book against your address and returns a firm, bookable price in about 60 seconds. Not an estimate, not a callback, not a pending inspection. The figure you see is the figure you pay. Count your windows first if you like. Or just type in the address and let the price book do the counting.