About the Winn Window Washer Team

Our story begins with me, Kolbe Winn, a student at community college, deciding to quit my job to pursue something fulfilling. I had set my mind to starting a soft washing company in Boise and started knocking on doors looking to power wash people’s roofs. After a few days of temporary defeat, someone asked if I could power wash their gutters out. I jumped on the task. This led to me changing my focus to gutter cleaning. After my first gutter job, my friend Andre sold one of the neighbors our second gutter cleaning account. This client was again pivotal in our entire structure, he gave us insight into how to provide the best service for a nominal rate. He taught us to work smarter and harder so we could not only keep clients but become the reference to those clients’ entire families. We used this newfound knowledge on another neighbor that Andre had sold. With my new knowledge and equipment, I did an extremely thorough job on our third client’s house and they loved us. They proceeded to ask if we knew how to wash windows. While I did not at the time, I was determined to learn how.

This is where our window journey begins. The morning of that first window cleaning service, I drove to the local hardware store to purchase a scrubber, squeegee, and a bottle of window washing solution. I started on the job and started cleaning all the top panes as I assumed the screens blocked dirt from getting on the bottom ones. Halfway through the job my client approached me with a screen key, I accepted it and realized my mistake. This gentleman was giving me guidance that would lead to our future success. While I may have had an extreme lack of knowledge, I made up for it with my work ethic. Unfortunately, I would soon come to realize that I needed a lot more than a work ethic to be successful with window cleaning.


While I was working on our third client’s windows Andre was busy selling both gutter and window cleaning jobs. I cleaned a few more gutters and decided if we wanted to get serious about window cleaning we would need the right equipment. I took all our earnings up to this point and ordered our first de-ionized water-fed pole system. While I figured it would be easy to use the system and would make up for my lack of knowledge, I was thoroughly incorrect. When it arrived and I went to test it out, I could not make it work. I realized this was not a “plug and play” type of system and I needed someone with industry knowledge to teach me how to work the equipment. This is when Ben enters the story. Ben is a family friend and world traveler who had been cleaning windows for a few years prior, and lucky for me he needed work in between his adventures. I called him up and invited him to join me the next day to clean our biggest account yet, and lucky for me he was all over the idea. Ben was simply a pro at window cleaning and he allowed us to level up our game. Rather than just muscling through jobs, we now knew what our client’s windows needed to keep them healthy, and this allowed us to grow beyond belief.


During our first summer, we cleaned over 200 clients in less than 6 months. This was unbelievable and it couldn’t have been accomplished without the help of everyone that contributed to our window washer company start. While this includes our team of fantastic salesmen and window cleaners, it also includes all our clients and their dogs that put nose prints on their windows. We are especially grateful for those first few clients who put faith in us and all the clients who provided us with constructive criticism, which allowed us to grow our knowledge in and out of our industry.

While this story may be about the individuals who contributed to WOW’s beginnings, the true people who deserve recognition are the clients that gave us an opportunity.


Thank You.