Working cleaners, a science editor who wandered in from materials chemistry, and a field correspondent who keeps filing copy at three in the morning. Everything on this site is written by one of them.
Senior editor and twelve-year veteran of the trade. Cleaned the glass on three of the ten tallest buildings in North America. Insufferable about Windex.
Editorial team contributor covering the Pacific Northwest and broader West Coast beat. Articles bylined by Easton are researched and reviewed in collaboration with the Giordano Inc. editorial team and informed by interviews with practicing window-washing operators in the region, plus published materials-science and trade references.
Editorial team contributor covering the Midwest and Great Lakes beat. Articles bylined by Jan are researched and reviewed in collaboration with the Giordano Inc. editorial team and informed by interviews with practicing window-washing operators in the region, plus published trade and small-business operations references.
Editorial team contributor covering the Northeast and New England beat. Articles bylined by Abby are researched and reviewed in collaboration with the Giordano Inc. editorial team and informed by interviews with practicing window-washing operators in the region, plus published trade and apprenticeship technique references.
Editorial team contributor covering the Mid-Atlantic and Southwest beat plus long-form operator profiles. Articles bylined by Drew are researched and reviewed in collaboration with the Giordano Inc. editorial team and informed by interviews with practicing window-washing operators, plus published trade and IRATA rope-access references.
Editorial team contributor covering the Gulf Coast and Florida beat. Articles bylined by JoAnn are researched and reviewed in collaboration with the Giordano Inc. editorial team and informed by interviews with practicing window-washing operators in the region, plus published trade, materials-science, and coastal-corrosion references.
Editorial team contributor covering the Northeast corridor beat, with a particular focus on pre-war and pre-1945 glazing handling and the Mid-Atlantic suburban residential pattern. Articles bylined by Derek are researched and reviewed in collaboration with the Giordano Inc. editorial team and informed by interviews with practicing window-washing operators in the region, plus published trade, IWCA, and historic-glazing references.
Regional contributor covering Texas and the central plains. Seventeen years on a route built across Austin and the surrounding hill country. Specialty: well-water households and the cleaning protocols they actually need.
Editorial team contributor covering the South and Mid-South beat. Articles bylined by Elly are researched and reviewed in collaboration with the Giordano Inc. editorial team and informed by interviews with practicing window-washing operators in the region, plus published trade and historic-glass conservation references.
Regional contributor covering the Upper Midwest. Sixteen years on Twin Cities routes plus a seasonal lake-country cabin book. Came to the trade after eight years at a Minneapolis cleaning-supply distributor, where she ran the window-and-glass product category.
Regional contributor covering the Mid-Atlantic. Twenty-two years on DC-Virginia-Maryland routes. Came to the cleaning trade in 2003 after three years in commercial property maintenance with a regional firm running buildings from Wilmington through the DC suburbs.
Regional contributor covering the Mid-South. Eighteen years on Middle Tennessee routes plus a long-running Memphis book and occasional Chattanooga extension. Came to the cleaning trade in 2008 after five years in historic-building restoration with a small Nashville firm.
Regional contributor covering Kentucky and the broader Ohio Valley. Twenty-one years on the trades — three at a commercial-property-maintenance firm before going independent in 2008. Runs a Louisville-based shop with regular Northern Kentucky contract routes and Lexington referral work.
The Window Washing Guide News Desk is the byline for our industry-news beat. We monitor the cleaning trade press, glass-industry releases, and standards/policy filings, paraphrase the news in our own words, and credit the original source at the bottom of every post. Posts are written by the editorial team rather than individual contributors so the read of each story reflects the publication's collective view.