Dayne Watkins
Dayne is a Senior Copywriter with 8+ years of experience growing Property marketing, and national brands. He's an optimist at heart, taking time to enjoy life's silver linings each day.
Most recent articles
Corporate Window Cleaning Programs in New York: How Class A Buildings and Multi-Tenant Towers Actually Get It Done
The day a property manager at a Park Avenue trophy tower decides to put the building’s exterior cleaning out to bid is rarely a calm day. The current contractor’s pricing has crept up for the third year running. The board’s facilities subcommittee wants comparison numbers. The chief tenant, a hedge fund occupying eleven floors, has […]
Inside Commercial Window Washing: How Crews Actually Clean New York Buildings
A property manager once asked a foreman a fair question: why does it take half a day to wash the same set of windows that one of his tenants cleans on the inside in fifteen minutes with a paper towel? The honest answer is that they are not doing the same job. A tenant inside […]
Commercial Window Cleaning in New York: What Building Owners Actually Need to Know Before Hiring
The first time a property manager solicits bids for commercial window cleaning on a 14-story tower in Midtown, the spread is usually unsettling. Three quotes come back: $3,400, $11,200, and $19,800. Same building, same scope, same access points. The math does not look like the same service. It is not. The variation in pricing for […]
Window Cleaning High Rise Buildings in New York Is a Calendar Problem, Not a Cleaning Problem
Ask any seasoned building manager in Manhattan how often they think about windows and you will get a tired look back. The cleaning itself is the easy part. The hard part is fitting it between a Local Law 11 facade inspection, a co-op board meeting, two storms in April, the spring construction next door, and […]
How High Rise Window Cleaning Works When the Window Lives 800 Feet Above the Sidewalk
Walk down Sixth Avenue on any clear morning in May, and at some point you will look up. You will look up because something tiny is moving against a wall of glass twenty stories above your coffee. That tiny thing is a person, probably wearing a harness, holding a squeegee, and earning a living the […]
