What I wish someone had told me before my first facade job.
A 60-minute call, just the two of us. We cover wind limits, the landing procedure, what to buy first and what to charge for the job. You bring the questions. I answer them.
The tutorials stop where the job starts.
There is plenty of drone content online. Almost none of it covers cleaning a facade on a building in use: reading the wind at height, working the corners, quoting the job, talking to the property manager. Good pilots get stuck on the business side.
Nobody to ask
Tutorials don't cover building exteriors in use, corner turbulence, or what a commercial client expects from you.
Mistakes cost equipment
One bad decision on a job can cost you the aircraft, the client, or both.
No clear first step
What to buy, what to skip, and which buildings to take at the beginning. Nobody lays that out.
WATERLOO REGION, ONTARIO
I'm Gus. I clean facades with a drone in Waterloo Region.
I started with a camera drone, doing real estate work. Then I moved to cleaning facades on buildings in use, and the job changed. It stopped being about framing a shot. It became about wind, water pressure, and a landing that has to go right every time.
Part of it I learned the expensive way. On one landing the wind flipped an aircraft worth more than $15,000. After that I stopped improvising and started writing things down: a wind ceiling I don't cross, a landing procedure, rules for corners. Those notes are the reason my schedule holds now.
I'm not an instructor and I don't sell a course. I'm one operator who has done the jobs and kept good notes, and I'm still learning. If an hour with me saves you one bad landing or one bad quote, it did its job. And if I think this trade isn't right for you, I'll say so on the call.
How the hour runs.
Sixty minutes, split roughly like this. If you need more time on one part, that's where we spend it.
Where you are
Your gear, your city, your budget, and what you have flown so far.
The flying
Wind limits, landing, corners, water pressure by floor, and which buildings to take first.
The business
What to charge, how to quote it, and how to get the first client to say yes.
One hour, and you leave with a plan you can start on.
Most of us learn safety by paying for it: a bad landing, a damaged aircraft, a client who doesn't call back. I already paid for those lessons. In sixty minutes I give you the roadmap and the protocol I built from them, so your first months look less like guessing.
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A 60-minute call, one on oneLive, not pre-recorded. Your gear, your city, your questions.
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A launch roadmap written for you (PDF)Phased to your budget: what to buy before the first job, what can wait, and which buildings to take while you are starting out.
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My flight safety protocol (PDF)The wind limits I hold to, my landing procedure, and the corner rules I follow. Written after things went wrong on the job, not copied from a manual.
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The PSI-by-floor chartThe water pressure a job needs at each floor height, so you know before you quote.
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The recording of our callSent to you afterwards, so you can go back to it or share it with a partner.
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Help pricing what you offerOnce your operation is solid, we work on how you present the service and what you charge for it.
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Email follow-upWhatever we don't finish on the call, I answer by email. You won't be left with half an answer.
ALL OF THE ABOVE, ONE CALL
One on one, over video. You'll be talking to me, not to a team.
Book a sessionIf you finish the call without one concrete change to make before your next flight, you get a second call at no charge.
I take a few of these a month so I can prepare properly for each one.
Before you book.
Do I need experience already?+
No. The call meets you where you are, whether you're deciding if this trade is for you or you're already flying and want the operations tightened up.
What if I don't have equipment yet?+
That's part of the call. What to buy, what to rent or borrow first, and what to leave until you're booking jobs.
Do I need a licence to fly in Canada?+
Yes. Transport Canada requires a pilot certificate for commercial drone work, and the category you fall under depends on the aircraft and where you fly. This trade sits at the heavier end, so confirm the current requirements with Transport Canada before you buy anything. On the call I'll tell you what applies to my own operation and where people get stuck, but I'm a pilot, not a regulator.
Is this only for facade cleaning?+
The protocol is built for facade cleaning: wind limits, corner rules, water pressure by floor. The operating discipline carries over to any commercial exterior work.
What happens after the call?+
You get the recording, your roadmap, and the safety protocol by email, plus follow-up on anything still open.
Is there a guarantee?+
Yes. If you finish without one concrete change to make before your next flight, you get a second call at no charge.
Who is this not for?+
Anyone looking for a certification, a licence, or someone to run the business for them. I can tell you how I work and what I would do in your position. The flying is still yours.
Is this different from the builder service?+
Yes. This is for people who want to fly the work themselves. Sky2Site's aerial marketing service is for builders who want me to fly their project for them.
Bring your questions. I'll bring the notes.
Sixty minutes, one on one. You leave with a roadmap, the safety protocol, and a plan for your next flight.
Aerial marketing for builders
Sky2Site also shoots aerial photo, video, and progress documentation for builders in Waterloo Region. That's the service this company started with, and it's still running. If that's what brought you here, email me.
“Sky2Site was an absolute pleasure to work with. They were extremely punctual, responsive, attentive, and very detail-oriented in their execution of our content capturing and editing for our on-site projects.”