When Tyce Underwood and Graydon Russell started a power-washing business, the 15-year-olds distributed flyers around the East Valley. Nobody responded.
Finally, a year later, the boys received a response. A woman said she didn’t need power washing, but her windows needed cleaning. Rapid Window Cleaning was born.
“We’d never done it before, but we’d love to give it a try,” Underwood told her. They tried it, loved it, and realized it was easier, more profitable, and far more scalable. “We fell in love with it,” Underwood said.
Since then, the Chandler-based company has turned into a six-figure business with a company truck, a full-time employee, and more than 600 paying customers across the East Valley.
Underwood, who attends Perry High School, and Russell, a Basha High School student, started the business as a seventh grade “side hustle.”
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This “side hustle” became official in early 2025, when they filed for an LLC, opened business bank accounts, secured insurance and built a professional website. About a year ago, they bought their first company truck and hired their first full‑time employee, a 21‑year‑old who handles the on‑site work while the teenagers juggle school and the administrative load.
“We try and be super flexible with our employees,” Underwood said. “We’re all about trying to build a good culture.”
The origin story of Rapid Window Cleaning is almost cinematic. In seventh grade, the boys plastered their neighborhood with pressure‑washing flyers. Nothing happened — for months. Then, while on vacation in California, they finally got a call.
The woman didn’t want pressure washing; she wanted her windows cleaned.
Today, Rapid Window Cleaning services Chandler, Gilbert, Tempe, Mesa, Queen Creek, Scottsdale, Paradise Valley, and even Fountain Hills. They price by square footage rather than window count — a change that made quoting easier for customers — and offer subscriptions that bring most exterior cleanings down to around $150. Their customer list now tops 900 names.
Underwood’s entrepreneurial streak started early. Before window cleaning, he sold sports cards — mostly football — and made a few thousand dollars doing it. Russell had his own collection of side hustles. They met in seventh grade, seated next to each other in class, and quickly realized they shared the same drive. “We were both very entrepreneurial minded,” Underwood said. “We both had businesses prior to meeting.”
Now, they’re thinking bigger. By graduation, Underwood hopes the company will be approaching seven figures in revenue. He imagines two or three fully wrapped trucks and at least two full‑time employees. “We have tons of goals,” he said. “We really fell in love with the process.”
Outside of work, Underwood is still a teenager — albeit one who manages a growing business between classes. He used to play football but stepped away to focus on Rapid Window Cleaning. He goes to the gym three to five times a week, hangs out with friends, and plays golf “a little better than average,” he joked. His dad is a firefighter who also runs a real‑estate business; his mom is a teacher.
“I just think it’s cool to have something we’ve built ourselves,” he said. “And we’re able to employ other people and create jobs for other people in the community.”
