Winter property maintenance is just as important as maintaining your home in the summer. It helps prevent damage, gutter problems, and leaks while ensuring your home is a safe environment to live in. While it doesn’t seem like the best time to be cleaning the exterior of your home, it’s a key time to ensure your home is prepared and …
5 Reasons to Hire Property Maintenance Companies
Keeping the outside of your home clean and well-maintained is a big job. From your house to the property around it, there are a lot of things that need regular attention. When it comes to taking care of these tasks, you have two options: do them yourself, or pay professional property maintenance companies to take on the work instead. And, …
Exterior House Cleaning: A Guide to Washing Your Home
You’ve seen them before: homes on your street or around town that have clearly seen better days. Stained and grimy exterior walls, dusty windows, and overflowing gutters are only a few of the things that can make a house look old and uncared for. And if it’s been a while since you’ve addressed any of these problem areas on your …
What You Need to Know About Cleaning Your Home’s Windows
When it comes to your home chores, cleaning your windows may not be very high on your to-do list. Even if you wipe the inside of your windows between vacuuming and dusting, when was the last time you cleaned the outside of them? There are a lot of reasons why window cleaning is important, both inside and out. And, even …
Spring Exterior and Gutter Cleaning
Spring Gutter Cleaning & Exterior Home Maintenance Springtime in Vancouver is beautiful – blooming flowers, warm weather, and gentle breezes. However, there are also weeks when there’s heavy rainfall and cold temperatures. This can cause havoc to your home’s exterior. This is why it’s important to spend some time diving into spring cleaning and home maintenance to prevent any damage …
Importance of Cleaning Window Tracks
Window tracks are often overlooked when it comes to regular cleaning routines, but neglecting them can lead to various problems, such as the build-up of dirt and grime, and compromise the appearance and functionality of your windows. This buildup can prevent windows from shutting properly, allowing drafts into the house. Drafts make the home less energy-efficient, which in turn creates …
Window Cleaning: How NOT To Do It
How NOT To Clean Your Windows If not done properly or safely, window cleaning can be a dangerous job. Here at Umbrella Property Services, we put our employees through a rigorous training program so they are prepared for all situations. As you can see in the pictures below, these people have not gone through any sort of training. Please do …
3 Things to Look For When Hiring A Pressure Washing Company
When going about the process of hiring a pressure washing company to clean your home or business, there are 3 very important aspects to consider. Integrity Integrity in any business is very important. It counts especially in the service industry. When trying to choose between different companies in your area, look for the one with the most integrity. Do your …
Use Your Squeegie Like A Pro
Most of us would confess that washing our windows is one of those big chores that seem to take a ton of time and even more motivation to get started. But whether we like the job or not, we have to admit that nothing brightens a living space as well as crystal clear, streak free windows. Part of what makes …
Washing Windows in the Rain: Exposing the Myth
Thinking to have your windows cleaned but you hear that there is rain in the forecast? Well here in Vancouver, you might wait a long time if you believe that rain will undo the time and effort, not to mention the expense of having your windows properly cleaned. You can quickly tell the professional window cleaners from the amateurs by …










