Your building looks tired from the street.
We clean the facade with a drone. Nobody leaves the ground, the parking lot stays open, and the people who live and work there barely notice we came.
The facade is not the expensive part. Getting up there is.
A dirty facade is easy to keep postponing, because the cleaning was never the real cost. The cost is everything that has to happen around it before anyone touches a wall.
Access
Getting people up a nine-storey wall takes equipment, setup time and coordination before a single litre of water is used.
Disruption
Closed parking, blocked entrances, notices to tenants, and a building that feels like a worksite for as long as it lasts.
The waiting
So it gets pushed to next year. And the building keeps telling everyone who walks past that nobody is looking after it.
What it actually looks like when we are there.
Life keeps going
People came and went through the front doors the whole time. A few of them stopped to watch for a bit, then carried on with their day. That happens on almost every job.
Some sides are slow
Two sides of that building had mature trees right up against the wall, so we took our time there. When there is something the drone can catch on, nothing moves until the pilot and the ground crew are on the same page.
No two buildings are the same
Every single one has been its own problem: the geometry, the landscaping, where we can set up, what is underneath. That is why the first thing we do is come and look at yours.
Buildings book us again
Some of the buildings we cleaned last year called us back this season. A few are already confirmed for the next one. That is the part I would look at if I were you.
You can fly it. The hard part is filling the calendar.
If you already own the equipment, this part is for you and not for the property managers above.
I am not going to hand you a content template. Templates are why everything looks the same and why nobody stops scrolling. What I do is go into your operation and find the thing that is already interesting in there, and then build the way you show it around that.
I know it works because I did it with mine, and mine is a pressure washer and a drone rinsing walls. There is no glamour in it anywhere. I filmed it anyway, and it brought me messages from operators in a dozen countries and a client who paid for an hour of my time without asking twice.
If that can happen with wet concrete, it can happen with whatever you do all day and think is ordinary.
- I go through your account and your work before we talk, so we do not spend the hour on context
- We find the thing your operation has that nobody else can film
- What to shoot, what to say, and what to stop posting
- How a comment or a message turns into a conversation and then into a job
- The recording, sent afterwards
- Email follow-up on whatever we do not finish
If you finish the hour without one concrete thing to change before your next post, you get a second call at no charge.
I'm Gus. I fly facade cleaning in Waterloo Region.
I started with a camera drone doing real estate work. Then I moved to cleaning facades on buildings that were full of people, and the job stopped being about framing a shot. It became about wind, water and a landing that has to go right every time.
Part of it I learned the expensive way, and I have written about that publicly. I am still learning, and I say so out loud, which is most of why people write to me.
I answer my own messages. If you write, you are talking to me.
Before you write.
How do I know if my building is a good fit?
Send me the address. I will look at it and tell you straight, including if the answer is that this is not the right method for that facade.
Do tenants need to be notified or moved?
A notice is good practice so people close their windows and move what is on the balconies. Nobody has to leave, and the building keeps operating normally.
How long does a building take?
It depends on the geometry and what is around it. A nine-storey building we did took about two and a half days. Trees, tight setbacks and awkward corners are what slow it down, not the height.
What time of year can this be done?
The season runs while the weather allows it. Booking early matters, because the number of workable days in a year here is smaller than people expect.
I run a drone cleaning business. Is the session for me?
If you already have the equipment and the problem is that not enough people know you exist, yes. If what you want is to be taught how to do the cleaning itself, no. I do not teach that.
Send me the address, or send me your account.
One is a building that has been waiting its turn. The other is a business nobody has found yet. Either way, I read it myself.
gus@sky2site.caAerial work for builders
Aerial photo, video and progress documentation for builders in Waterloo Region. That is the service this company started with, and it is still running.
Email me about your project