Window cleaning for a sheltered Guerilla Bay home
Guerilla Bay sits tucked away south of Malua Bay, a small and scenic spot near the start of the Burrewarra Point lighthouse walk. People assume that because the bay is sheltered the glass stays clean, but that isn't how it works down here. The water still throws salt and sea-mist onto every west and north-facing pane, and on a still morning that film just sits and bakes on rather than getting rinsed off by wind-driven rain. We see it on nearly every job: a hazy grey-white bloom across the glass that a quick wipe with a squeegee won't shift.
Capital Coastal Cleaning is a local, Indigenous-owned team based up in Batemans Bay, and Guerilla Bay is a regular stop on our southern coast run. Tyson started the business in 2023, and these days it's him, Shanice and Lisa doing the work. We clean the inside and outside of the glass, the tracks, the frames and the flyscreens, so the whole window comes up clear, not just the panes you notice first.
Why the salt film here needs more than a quick wipe
The waterfront and ridge homes around the bay catch sea-mist coming straight off the water, and because Guerilla Bay is so protected, there isn't a lot of strong breeze to blow it back off again. That salt settles, dries, and over a few weeks it builds into a hard film that bonds to the glass. Run an ordinary squeegee over it and you get streaks and a sort of cloudy smear, because you're dragging the salt around rather than lifting it.
We treat that film properly. The glass gets washed down to break the salt bond first, then squeegeed and detailed at the edges where the haze always hangs on the longest. On the homes set higher up toward the point, where the view out to the water is the whole reason people are there, that difference is the difference between a window you look through and a window you look at.
Holiday lets and changeovers between guests
A good share of Guerilla Bay is holiday rentals, and the windows are part of what a guest sees the second they walk in. Salt haze on the glass facing the bay reads as a place that hasn't been looked after, even when the rest of the home is spotless. We do window cleaning as part of changeover work here so the place is guest-ready, and we can time it to fit the gap between check-out and check-in like we do on our turnovers right along the coast.
Plenty of owners book the windows in with a deep clean before peak season, which is the smart way to do it down here. Get the salt film off the glass and the flyscreens cleared out before the summer crowd arrives, and the home holds up far better through the busy stretch. We can come back through the season for a top-up on the sea-facing panes if the place is booked solid and the salt is building again.
Tracks, frames and flyscreens, not just the glass
The bit people forget on a coastal home is what collects in the tracks and the flyscreens. Down here it's a mix of salt, fine sand and the dust that drifts in off the bush around the point. It packs into the bottom track of every sliding window and door, and the screens clog up with a grey crust that cuts the airflow and the view. Clean glass sitting in a gritty, salty track still looks half done and the window starts sticking.
So we clear the tracks out, wipe down the aluminium frames where the salt corrodes them over time, and wash the flyscreens rather than just brushing them. On a sheltered bay home where the windows are open a lot to catch the sea air, keeping those screens clear makes a real difference to how the place feels inside.
Two-storey and tricky access, assessed on site
A lot of the homes around Guerilla Bay are built to make the most of the slope and the outlook, which means split levels, high gable windows and glass set up where a step ladder won't safely reach. We don't quote that sort of thing blind. We've a look at the property on site, work out the safe way to reach the high glass, and tell you straight up what we can and can't do from the ground.
If a window genuinely can't be reached safely, we'll say so rather than risk it. Most of what we see here's well within reach once we've eyes on the access, and we'd rather get it right than make a promise over the phone that doesn't match the house.
End of lease and exit cleans for the rental homes
Guerilla Bay has its share of permanent rentals as well as the holiday stock, and when a lease ends the windows are on the agent's list. A bond clean is judged to the REINSW exit standard, and that means glass, tracks and screens all checked, not just a wipe of the panes. Salt film left on a sea-facing window is exactly the kind of thing an agent will flag at the final inspection.
We clean the windows to that exit standard as part of our end of lease work, and our bond-back guarantee covers it. If the agent flags the cleaning, we come back and re-clean within 72 hours at no extra cost. We're police-checked, fully insured, and we use low-tox products, which matters on the smaller waterfront blocks here where what runs off the glass ends up close to the bay.
We're open seven days, there's no travel surcharge to Guerilla Bay, and you can reach us on 0479 184 498 to sort out a time.
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Tyson and the local team
Capital Coastal Cleaning is owner-run by Tyson, who started the business here in Batemans Bay in 2023. A small, police-checked local team, the same faces each visit, and our name on every job, from Durras to Moruya.
