Best window cleaners in Cottesloe, Claremont and the western suburbs (2026)
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Cottesloe, Claremont, Nedlands, Dalkeith and Subiaco carry more glass per house than almost anywhere else in Perth, and not one of the businesses cleaning it holds a licence — because in Western Australia window cleaning is not a licensed occupation at all. That leaves a homeowner two things worth checking: the weighted Google score, and whether the operator publishes a street address it can be held to. Four operators in the western suburbs clear both bars, and the one at the top holds the strongest review record found anywhere in this trade.
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The second-highest weighted score in the western suburbs belongs to CCC Window Cleaning, rated 5.0 from 117 reviews, and it is off this list purely because no street address is published on its Google listing. Clean4you Perth at 4.8 from 115 reviews and MastersCo. High Rise & Commercial Window Cleaning at 4.9 from 56 would both have displaced the operator ranked fourth, and Clear & Bright at 4.8 from 65 sits within a whisker of it. A paid placement is the route onto the page for an operator that works out of a van rather than a shopfront.
See placement optionsSwan Windows & Outdoor Cleaning Services
The clear first place. Swan Windows & Outdoor Cleaning Services holds 5.0 from 162 reviews — the deepest flat-five record found on any Perth window cleaner in this rollout — and it publishes a street address in Cottesloe rather than a phone number and a service area. Its weighted score of 4.8092 sits 0.1024 clear of second place, which is not a rounding artefact: it is the largest first-to-second gap on any window cleaner page published so far.
It turned up on both sweeps of this cluster and was deliberately left off the Stirling and Fremantle lists published earlier in the week rather than stretching either boundary to reach it. Cottesloe is where it belongs. A gap of that size is roughly what a hundred extra five-star reviews buys, so treat the top of this list as settled rather than close.
See placement optionsNXS Home Maintenance
NXS Home Maintenance holds 4.9 from 107 reviews from Subiaco Mews on Hay Street, and it is the only operator on this list with a three-figure review count besides the one above it. Weighted 4.7068. Note what the weighting does here: a 4.9 over 107 reviews beats a flat 5.0 over 46, because the larger sample is worth more than the last tenth of a star.
The name says home maintenance rather than windows, and Google categorises it as a window cleaning service, which is the right way round to check it. Worth asking which parts of the job it actually quotes — tracks, screens and frames as well as glass — since a maintenance operator often includes more than a glass-only specialist.
See placement optionsAspect Window Cleaning
The most central of the four. Aspect Window Cleaning holds 5.0 from 46 reviews and publishes a Stirling Highway address in Nedlands, which puts it on the spine of the western suburbs — the shortest run to Claremont, Dalkeith, Karrakatta and Shenton Park of anyone on this list. Weighted 4.6575, 0.0493 behind second and 0.0363 ahead of fourth.
Its Google listing shows 24-hour availability. In this trade that almost always describes the phone rather than the squeegee, so it is worth asking what the actual working window is before planning a morning around it.
See placement optionsWest coast windows and outdoors
West coast windows and outdoors holds 5.0 from 32 reviews from an address in Dalkeith, and it cleans outdoor surfaces alongside glass. That combination matters on the river-facing streets, where the salt film settles on frames, tracks and glass balustrades as much as on the panes, and a windows-only quote leaves half the job undone. Weighted 4.6212.
One caution on the name: Westcoast Windows & Cladding on Bay View Terrace is a separate business with its own Google listing and its own much shorter review record. They are not the same operator and the two listings should never be read together.
See placement optionsWhy the list stops at four
Four operators in these suburbs hold a rating of at least 4.3, more than two reviews, and a street address published on their own Google listing. The fifth by weighted score, Trident Cleaning Solutions in a Bay View Terrace suite in Claremont at 5.0 from 16 reviews and 4.5690, is 0.0522 behind fourth; A Clean Window at 63A Selby St in Daglish, 5.0 from 11 reviews and 4.5495, is next again. Both are genuine gaps rather than measurement artefacts, so the list stops where the evidence stops. Widening the boundary south into Mosman Park would have produced more names, but Pure Clean Windows and MANTA Cleaning Solutions are already ranked on our Fremantle and Mosman Park page, and stretching a boundary to reach a number is padding, not ranking.
The operators with no address, named
This is the sharpest example of the pattern anywhere in the trade: on weighted score alone, four of the seven best window cleaners in the western suburbs publish no street address, and every one of them would otherwise have a place on this list. Every place page below was opened and checked individually.
- CCC Window Cleaning — 5.0 from 117 reviews, weighted 4.7696. Would have ranked second, ahead of everything but the top of the list. Place page opened: website and a 1300 number, no address.
- Clean4you Perth — 4.8 from 115 reviews, weighted 4.6605. Would have ranked fourth. Same pattern, a 1300 number and no street.
- MastersCo. High Rise & Commercial Window Cleaning — 4.9 from 56 reviews, weighted 4.6436. Would have ranked fourth. A high-rise and commercial specialist working from an 1800 number.
- Clear & Bright — Cleaning Western Suburbs and Surrounds — 4.8 from 65 reviews, weighted 4.6182. Would have ranked fourth, and it sits just 0.0030 behind the operator ranked fourth — closer than the measurement can resolve, so the order between it and fourth place would have carried no information at all.
- Also addressless and below the cut on score in any case: The Master Window Cleaning Co 5.0 from 15, GlassGlow Restoration 5.0 from 13, High Grade Window Cleaning 5.0 from 11, Care Clean 5.0 from 10, and Jim’s Window & Pressure Cleaning Cottesloe 5.0 from 9.
What is actually regulated in Western Australia
Window cleaning is not a licensed occupation in Western Australia. There is no window cleaner’s licence, no registration scheme and no register to check a trading name against, which is precisely why this list ranks on review record and a verifiable address rather than on a credential. Any operator claiming to be a “licensed window cleaner” in this state is describing something that does not exist.
What is regulated is the equipment. WorkSafe WA’s high risk work licence classes page lists every licensed class: boom-type elevating work platform, concrete placing boom, cranes, dogging, forklift, hoists, pressure equipment, rigging and scaffolding. Window cleaning appears on none of them. The single class that can touch this trade is class WP, and WorkSafe’s own class sheet puts the threshold at a boom length of 11 metres or more.
So a two-storey house in Cottesloe cleaned from a water-fed pole or a ladder involves no licensed work whatsoever. The business still owes its workers training, instruction and supervision, and still has to keep its plant inspected and maintained — those duties sit on the business under the same WorkSafe pages and apply whether a licence is needed or not. That is the honest shape of the regulation here, and it is why the two checks on this page are the review record and the address.
What to ask before booking
- Where do you work from? An operator that can name a street is one you can find again if a pane is scratched or a screen goes missing.
- How will you reach the upper windows? Pole, ladder or platform changes the price, the time on site and the risk.
- Are tracks, sills, frames and screens included, or glass only? This is the commonest gap between two quotes that look the same.
- Do you carry public liability insurance, and for how much? Ask for the certificate, not the reassurance.
- Is hard-water staining quoted separately? Mineral etching from reticulation needs a restoration pass, not a clean, and it is usually a separate line.
- Who does the work? On a small operator the owner usually turns up; on a franchise or a labour-hire crew it may be a different person each visit.
Access method and what it requires
Almost every quote in these suburbs comes down to how the cleaner reaches the glass. Cottesloe, Peppermint Grove and Claremont hold a great deal of two-storey frontage on narrow side setbacks, which pushes the work onto poles and ladders rather than platforms, while the newer Nedlands and Dalkeith rebuilds put full-height glass where a platform is the only sensible answer. This is what each method requires under WorkSafe WA’s rules, read from its own pages on 26 September 2026.
| Access method | Licence required | Typical on a house? |
|---|---|---|
| Water-fed pole from ground level | None | Yes — the normal method to two storeys |
| Ladder | None, but general work-at-height duties apply | Yes |
| Scissor lift or vertical platform | None (not a boom-type EWP) | Rarely |
| Boom-type EWP, boom under 11 m | No licence; employer must still train and instruct | Rarely |
| Boom-type EWP, boom 11 m or more | Class WP high risk work licence | No — commercial and strata work |
| Scaffolding erected for the job | Class SB, SI or SA licence | No — commercial and strata work |
In short: on a normal western-suburbs house nothing on this list requires a licence, so no operator should be quoting one as a selling point.
How this list was built
- Weighted score, not raw stars. Each operator is scored with a Bayesian average that pulls a small sample toward the category mean, so 5.0 from 162 reviews outranks 5.0 from 16 instead of tying with it.
- Four Google Maps sweeps. Searches covering Cottesloe and Claremont; Nedlands, Dalkeith, Subiaco and Claremont; the western suburbs generally; and Subiaco, Shenton Park, Wembley and Floreat, each scrolled to the end of the results feed. Thirty-four window cleaning listings were assessed in total.
- Every place page opened. Search result cards are unreliable in both directions, on address as much as on category, so each candidate was checked on its own Maps place page before being included or excluded.
- Address verified, not assumed. An operator is only ranked if a street address appears on its own Google listing. Four did; a phone number and a service area is not an address.
- Locality checked by pin, not by name. Three strong operators were excluded on this test alone: Clarico window cleaning pins to Parkwood, Skyclean Windows to Hillarys and Crystalkleen Service to Kenwick, none of them the western suburbs whatever their search ranking suggests. Real Clean Cleaning Services and Nexus Kleen were excluded on category rather than location: Google lists the first as a house cleaning service and the second simply as cleaners, and neither is a window cleaning specialist, whatever its review record.
- Nothing here was paid for. Placement on this list cannot be bought; paid placements are labelled FEATURED and sit outside the ranking.
Questions homeowners ask
Do window cleaners need a licence in WA?
No. Window cleaning is not a licensed occupation in Western Australia, and there is no register of window cleaners to check a name against. The only licensing that can apply is for the equipment: a boom-type elevating work platform with a boom of 11 metres or more needs a class WP high risk work licence, and erecting scaffolding needs a class SB, SI or SA licence. Neither applies to a normal house clean.
Why is the operator with the most reviews not always first?
It usually is, but the score is weighted rather than raw. A rating from very few reviews is pulled toward the category average, because a perfect score from 9 reviews is much weaker evidence than a perfect score from 162. On this list the top operator wins on both counts at once.
Is a business without a published address a worse choice?
Not necessarily, and several of the strongest review records in these suburbs belong to operators with no published street. It simply cannot be verified from the outside, and this list only ranks what can be. Those operators are named above so you can call them anyway.
How much does it cost to have house windows cleaned?
There is no reliable single figure, which is why this page carries no price table. Quotes in the western suburbs turn on pane count, storeys, access, whether tracks, frames and screens are included, and how much hard-water staining has built up. Get two quotes on the same written scope and compare those, rather than comparing an hourly rate.
Can hard-water stains be removed from glass?
Sometimes. Light mineral deposit from reticulation overspray usually comes off with an acid wash. Once the minerals have etched into the glass surface it is damage rather than dirt, and it needs a mechanical restoration pass or replacement. Ask any operator to look at the worst pane before quoting the job.
How often do windows in these suburbs need doing?
Twice a year suits most houses. Closer to the coast at Cottesloe and Swanbourne the salt load is heavier and quarterly is common, particularly on west-facing glass and on aluminium tracks where salt and grit together wear the seals.
Run a window cleaning business in the western suburbs?
Four operators score well enough for this list and are off it on address alone.
See placement optionsBrowse the directoryLast updated 26 September 2026. Ratings, review counts and addresses were read from Google Maps place pages on 26 September 2026 and will drift; the weighted scores are calculated from those figures and nothing else. Licensing statements are read from the WorkSafe WA high risk work licence classes page and the boom-type elevating work platform class sheet, both last updated 13 August 2026. The absence of a published address is reported as at the date checked and is not a statement about any operator’s conduct or quality.