Window Cleaning at Horizons at Bonita Bay. Your view, restored.

Horizons at Bonita Bay rises 23 floors at 4731 Bonita Bay Boulevard in the gated Bonita Bay community and was completed in 2000. Listings describe views of Estero Bay, the Gulf and Bonita Bay’s golf courses, and one fifth-floor home is listed with floor-to-ceiling windows and a wraparound lanai. A listing for the building names two guest suites, a fitness center, a massage room, a social room, a card room and a live-in manager, plus a pool deck with a large pool and spa and a covered social area. Another says the guest suites sit on the lobby level. Bonita Bay itself offers a beach park, canoes and kayaks, pickleball, tennis, walking and biking paths and a marina with a waterfront restaurant.

Quick facts for owners

• Address: 4731 Bonita Bay Blvd, Bonita Springs, in gated Bonita Bay
• Completed in 2000; 23 floors
• Views described toward Estero Bay, the Gulf and golf fairways
• Pool and spa, fitness center, massage, social and card rooms
• Two guest suites on the lobby level, per listings
• A live-in manager, per a listing
• Bonita Bay marina, beach park and trails nearby

Water, fairways and the film on the glass

Listings here mention Estero Bay, the Gulf and golf courses, and the mix on your own glass depends on which way your home faces. Glass toward open water often collects salt and a humid film, while glass over landscaping and fairways tends to gather pollen and dust. We examine each pane before choosing the solution, then match the method to what is actually on the glass.

Floor-to-ceiling windows

One listed home has floor-to-ceiling windows and a penthouse listing describes walls of glass. Panes like those take longer to clean well: they need extension poles for the inside faces, and a smear at the top is easy to miss from the floor. We check each tall window at an angle against the light, the most reliable way we know to spot a streak, and go back over any pane that still shows a mark.

Wraparound lanais

A lanai that wraps around a corner, like the one described in a fifth-floor listing, often puts sliders on more than one face, and each face can get a different amount of sun through the day. We plan the order of work around the sun so that we are not squeegeeing in direct heat, which dries the solution too fast. Reachable outside glass and any railing glass get the same care as the inside.

A live-in manager

A building listing says Horizons has a live-in manager. That person is usually the right first contact for contractor hours, elevator use and where to unload. Give the manager our names, the day and your unit, and we will have our certificate of insurance ready before we arrive.

Lobby-level guest suites

Listings say Horizons has two guest suites on the lobby level. We keep our gear on the service route when management asks and move through the lobby quietly. If your own visitors are arriving, tell us the dates and we will clean before they do, so the first view they see from your lanai is a clear one.

Gate and tower access

Entry is through Bonita Bay’s gate and then the building’s own entrance, so we arrange access ahead of time. We follow whatever rules the building sets for contractor hours and elevator use, and we leave the pool deck and common areas as we found them.

Sand and salt after a storm

After a strong wind or a tropical system, glass facing the water can be heavily coated. Salt and sand often collect in the sliders, and the film can build fast. A visit after the weather passes clears the tracks and the panes before the residue has time to harden.

Selling or leasing a view home

Listings here lean heavily on the views, and photographs show every smudge. A cleaning before listing photographs often helps, again before a showing day if the unit has been closed, and between tenants for homes you rent. Tell us the date of the photographer or the move-in and we will fit the visit around it.

What a Horizons visit includes

Interior windows and sliders, the outer face of lanai sliders we can reach safely, railing glass within reach, vacuumed tracks, wiped sills and frames, and screens by request. Glass on the tower exterior that needs rope access or a swing stage stays with the association’s contractor.