How to clean this wretched thing!

Our window cleaners have the means to clean the conservatory roof and the windows above it without ladders, so a window cleaner with long-reaching equipment should be able to do it.
However - ours does use that new-fangled water system which is rather drippy

Contact your local window cleaner. Much easier and more sensible than breaking your neck!!!!!

Thanks for the concern. Jalima, it is safe enough standing on the landing, but there is no way I am going to be stupid enough to try getting nearer.

Buffybee the water marks on the wallpaper were attributed by the estate agent to storm damage. Fortunately, there has been no further rain coming in there. We just haven't got round to redecorating the stairs since we moved in two years ago.

I'm trying to figure.... Two ladders left and right, and a plank .... Hmmm .... A third ladder against the plank... Hmmm...
it is very high.
Looks like a scaffolding job.

I'm with the leave it and stay safe gang.

I have a similar problem and about 3 years ago we had to have the chimney repointed so I asked the roofer to have a look at our skylight while he was o the roof.

Bless him he gave it a clean and said as it wasn't leaking best to leave well alone.

I wipe the inside with a cloth on a mop but we just have to accept that the outside goes through cleaner or muckier phases depending on the weather.

Don't risk an accident over it, your safety is far more important.

I don't mean to worry you but from the photo it looks like there has been water running down the wall from the area of the window.
I could be from your attempts at cleaning the window with the mop.
If not, either the window is leaking or you have a broken/loose roof tile.

I’d just leave it - but then I’m fairly lazy really .

If it bothers you enough, buy a replacement double glazed window fitted with self cleaning glass . That will take care of the outside dirt.

Here we have two choices: try and clean it and fall and break your neck; or let nature have its way and leave it. I know which I would choose!!

Get a proper man in.

Or woman.

I noticed that your window surround is nicely decorated.
I would leave the window until you next decorate and ask whoever is painting to clean the window.

Failing that I have a karcher window vac,
I believe it is possible to purchase a
window vac extension pole.

Please put your safety first grandtante

Life is short enough without going in for suicidal activities! Dirt will always be around and even when we are not so just relax and decide not to ever even look in that direction again - please!

At first glance, I thought it was being held up by four wasps….

I think that I've managed to clean the insides of four very high (for me), velux windows twice in all the years that I've lived here. I ask DH but he never seems to get round to it. The outside have never been cleaned. Even the window cleaners, with all their equipment, won't attempt it. I've learnt not to worry about it.

I have a couple of high windows. I mentioned to my window cleaner that they were cleaner outside than in as I couldn't reach them.
He offered to do them and now cleans them whenever I ask.
He charges me £2 but I do make them a mug of coffee every other week.

I wouldn't worry about cleaning it. I have a skylight which only someone tall and agile with a long ladder could reach to clean inside and cleaning outside would mean a roofer climbing across the roof to reach.

I suppose a power washer would blow the window inwards, in which case, you could get a new one on your household insurance policy...I think.

Hose pipe from outside perhaps?

Crikey MOnica I have lived in my house with the unwashed windows for 48 years....I know, I know shocking!!

Looking again at your photo, grandtante, attempting to clean it looks like a recipe for disaster.
Are you standing at the top of the stairs with a chamois on a mop and leaning forwards to reach the window?

Don't do it!

I had lived in my current house for over 15 years before I found a window cleaner and at least 3 upstairs windows got their first clean since we moved in.

Will anyone notice?
And, if they do and comment on it, hand them the wash leather on a mop and a ladder.

Leave it , the rain today will either clean it or add to the dirt lol

I am shamed to say that I have two really high windows upstairs in my house........I can't possibly reach them so they don't get cleaned!