About Raincom

Named after the thing that does the work.

Rain plus company: it's not a complicated name, and it isn't a complicated business. Since 1985 we've collected the softest water nature makes and used it to keep buildings clean across the Cotswolds, Shropshire and the counties in between.

Since day one

Three things that haven't changed in forty years.

One

The water comes from the sky

The first round was cleaned with rainwater and so was this morning's. We collect it, filter it three times, de-ionise it and use nothing else. Not one chemical in four decades.

Two

The family runs the rounds

Raincom started as a family firm with one van and it still is one, with the second generation now in the business. Nobody you haven't met quotes your building, and nobody you haven't met cleans it.

Three

The diary is kept

Rounds run to schedule, whether that's a weekly shopfront or a 12-weekly cottage. It sounds basic. It's also the reason customers stay for decades.

Raincom cleaning The White Company shopfront in Cirencester
The story so far

From one van to the Welsh border.

The maths of window cleaning is simple: do the job properly and people book you again. Do it properly for long enough and their neighbours book you too. That's how one van and a handful of Cotswold shopfronts grew into rounds that reach from Swindon to the Welsh border, without a single advert doing the heavy lifting.

Along the way the customer list picked up some recognisable names: Aldi, whose Swindon store we've cleaned inside and out for over 25 years; The White Company's Cirencester shopfront; House of Fraser; estate agents Knight Frank, Savills and Hamptons; Barnsley House Hotel; and councils, schools and country estates besides.

The homes matter just as much. Some of the families on today's round were on the very first one.

Milestones

Forty years in five lines.

1985

One van, a ladder, and a round of Cotswold shops and cottages. The rainwater idea is there from the start.

1990s

Recommendations bring the first big commercial contracts, including the supermarket round we still run today.

2000s

The rounds cross into Shropshire and the second generation of the family picks up a pole.

2010s

Proper investment in harvesting, filtration and reach-and-wash kit. Ladders retire; the poles take over.

Today

Hundreds of buildings from timber-framed Ludlow landmarks to supermarket glass, all cleaned with the same water.

The boring but important bit

Paperwork in order, people you can trust.

Insured

Public liability cover in place, with RAMS and method statements available for commercial sites

Checked

DBS-checked, uniformed staff, comfortable working at schools, care settings and private homes

Accredited

SafeContractor approved, with IPAF and PASMA competencies where the job calls for them

Forty years in, still taking on new buildings.

If yours is one of them, we'd like to see it. A quick visit, a fair quote, and a place on the round.

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