Here's the deal, plainly. This site exists because finding a window cleaner in Grand Forks is weirdly hard for a town this size. The good ones stay booked through referrals and route work, they don't need to advertise, and so the person staring at six months of winter film on their glass ends up asking Facebook and getting eleven contradictory answers.
So we run a shortcut, started in 2026: tell us how many windows and how many stories, and the request goes to an independent local cleaner who calls back with their own price. Free to you. The cleaner pays us for the lead — the same way they'd pay for an ad, except this one only costs them when it actually produces a customer. That's the entire arrangement, and now you know as much about it as we do.
Not a cleaning company. No squeegees on the premises. We don't set prices, don't schedule the work, and can't tell the cleaner how to do their job — the quote and the workmanship are theirs. What we can do is stop sending work to anyone who leaves customers unhappy — it's the one lever a referral service has, and we use it.
The valley is genuinely rough on windows. Winter leaves a film of furnace exhaust and road spray. Spring adds gravel dust off the section roads and whatever the wind hauled up from the fields. By June the sun hits and suddenly every pane looks like a science exhibit. Twice-a-year cleaning — after street sweeping in spring, before the storm windows in fall — is the local rhythm for a reason.