Window Cleaning at Baypointe at Naples Cay. Your view, restored.

Baypointe at Naples Cay stands at 60 Seagate Drive, inside the gated Naples Cay enclave in the Seagate neighborhood. Completed in 1996, the 18-story tower holds 92 residences arranged in six stacks, including two floors of private penthouses, with roughly 2,105 to 2,600 square feet of living area per home. Our tower list places it on the Clam Bay side of Naples Cay, while the building’s own description highlights its views out to the Gulf of Mexico. Arrival is through a porte-cochere and a two-story grand foyer on the promenade deck. Shared spaces include a billiard room, a fitness center with dry and steam saunas, a social room with a kitchen, two guest suites, a guest apartment, tennis, BBQ grills and a landscaped terrace with a pool and spa.

Quick facts for owners

• Address: 60 Seagate Dr, Naples, in gated Naples Cay (Seagate neighborhood)
• Built 1996; 18 stories; 92 residences in six stacks
• Two private penthouse floors at the top of the tower
• About 2,105 to 2,600 square feet of living area
• Bay-side setting, with views described toward the Gulf of Mexico
• Billiards, fitness center with dry and steam sauna, social room, two guest suites, a guest apartment
• Up to two pets; up to four leases a year, 90 days minimum each

Six stacks, six different window jobs

In a tower built in six stacks, the same floor plan repeats straight up the building, but each stack points a different way. A corner home can have glass on two faces, while a middle stack may have one main wall of sliders. When you ask for a quote, give us your unit number. It tells us the floor and usually the stack, and from that we can estimate the glass count, the light at the time of the visit and how long the job will take.

Bay air on one face, Gulf breeze on the other

Glass that looks over Clam Bay picks up a soft, humid film, and the mangrove shoreline sends pollen and tiny insects that stick to screens. Glass turned toward the Gulf gets drier, saltier wind. Both leave residue, but they come off differently: the humid film smears if it is wiped dry, and salt has to be dissolved before the squeegee goes across. We check which kind of film your panes carry before we choose the solution.

Penthouse floors

The top two floors are private penthouse levels. Penthouse homes in towers like this often have taller glass, more sliders and terraces that take the full force of the wind. We bring extension poles for high interior panes and try to book penthouse visits for calm mornings, because a stiff breeze dries the solution on outside slider glass before it can be squeegeed off.

The promenade deck and porte-cochere

Arrivals at Baypointe come through the porte-cochere on the promenade deck. We park where staff direct us, carry our gear by the service route and keep buckets and poles off the lobby floors. The two-story foyer glass belongs to the association, and we leave common-area windows alone unless the board hires us for them.

Two pets allowed

Baypointe permits up to two pets per residence, so the lower third of the sliders often shows nose prints and paw smudges on the inside. We clean each slider from the track to the top rail and give extra attention to the low panes where a pair of dogs likes to watch the water.

Four leases a year

Owners may lease up to four times a year, with a 90-day minimum for each lease. Many owners book us at each changeover so the glass is ready for the next tenant. Tell us the move-out date and we will coordinate access with management while you are away.

Renovated common areas, your own glass

The association recently refreshed the guest suites, the billiards room and the fitness center. Inside your residence, though, the windows, sliders, tracks and screens are yours to maintain, and that is the work we quote.

Before you head north

If you spend summers away from Naples, book a cleaning the week you depart. It removes salt and pollen before they bake on through the hot months, and a second visit before you return in the fall means the first sunset back is seen through clear glass. Once you authorize it in writing, management can let us in while you are gone.

What a Baypointe visit includes

Every interior pane and slider; the outside of each terrace slider and any terrace glass within safe reach; tracks vacuumed and wiped; sills and frames; screens if you ask. Glass that can only be reached from outside the tower stays with the association’s high-rise contractor.