The foggiest town we work
Exterior Cleaning Services in Morro Bay
Morro Bay is about twenty minutes out Highway 1 from our shop on Foothill, and it is the hardest town on our route for glass. More fog, more salt, and less chance for either to dry off.
Serving Morro Bay · Mon to Sat, 7am to 6pm · License #17881
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Fog all day, salt all year, and nothing ever gets to dry
Most of this coast gets a break from one or the other. Morro Bay gets neither.
Morro Bay gets more fog than anywhere else we work, and it does not behave the way fog does ten miles inland. In San Luis Obispo the marine layer lifts by ten or eleven and the afternoon turns hot. Here it can sit on the town all day, gray at noon and still gray at three, with the Rock and the mouth of the bay feeding it. That means surfaces stay damp for days at a stretch. Glass, stucco, north walls, roof slopes. Nothing gets the long dry spell that burns growth off.
Then there is the salt, and in Morro Bay it is not a winter thing or a storm thing. The onshore wind comes off open water every day of the year and carries it straight into town. Inland, that haze lands dry and comes off easy. Here it lands on something that is already wet and stays wet, so it never sets and never rinses. It goes back into solution overnight and dries into the same pane again the next day. That is why Morro Bay glass clouds over in a way a homeowner in Templeton would not recognize.
The shape of the town decides the rest of the job. Houses climb the hill facing the water, so a lot of what we do is second and third story work, and the biggest glass always points west at the bay because that view is the reason people bought. Down at sea level the Embarcadero is a working fishing harbor, not a boardwalk. Waterfront glass takes gull mess, exhaust film off the boats and spray off the bay, and it shows again by mid morning.
What Morro Bay does to a property
None of this is generic. These are the problems that show up here and not necessarily ten miles down the road.
Fog all day means the salt never dries
Ten miles inland the marine layer is gone by eleven. Here it can hold from dawn to dusk, so the salt that blows in lands on a surface that is already damp and never sets into a film you can wipe away. It redissolves overnight and dries back into the glass. It also collects in tracks and around aluminum frames, so we do those, not just the pane.
Black growth on north walls, faster than anywhere else
A north facing wall in Morro Bay can go weeks without an hour of direct sun. Algae and the black staining that comes with it take hold here quicker than any town in the county, on stucco, on siding, on north roof slopes and on the shaded side of a fence. Pressure will not fix that, it just drives it in. Soft washing kills the growth at the root.
Three story view elevations on the hill
Homes climb the hill above the bay, which puts the best glass two and three floors up on the downhill side, facing west at the water. That is the window people bought the house for and the hardest one to reach. Water fed poles do most of it from the ground. Where a lift is the right answer we bring one rather than improvise footing on a slope.
The Embarcadero is a working harbor, not a boardwalk
Commercial glass on the waterfront deals with things no storefront inland sees. Gull mess, which is acidic and will etch if it sits. Diesel and exhaust film off the boats. Salt spray off the bay on a windy afternoon. That is route work, not a once a year clean, and we do it early so nobody is stepping around a bucket at opening.
Where we work in Morro Bay
- Morro Rock and the harbor
- The Embarcadero
- Downtown and Main Street
- North Morro Bay
- The Cloisters
- The hill above downtown
- Morro Bay State Park and the golf course
- The estuary and the back bay
What gets booked most here
Window cleaning comes first because the view glass is the reason people are up on that hill at all. Soft washing and house washing come next, because the fog keeps north walls damp and algae takes hold here faster than anywhere else we work. Boat washing is on the list because Morro Bay is the one town on our route with a working harbor.
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How Crystal Clean A1 is different from the other options
- Licensed and insured to $1,000,000
- The owner is the one on your property
- Nothing handed off to a subcontractor
- Water fed poles, ladders and lifts on hand
- Windows plus the rest of the exterior
- Residential and commercial work
- Actually based in San Luis Obispo County
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Morro Bay questions
How often should windows be cleaned in Morro Bay?
Why does black growth keep coming back on the north side of my house?
Can you reach the upper windows on a three story house above the bay?
Do you clean windows for businesses on the Embarcadero?
Are you licensed and insured, and who actually does the work?
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