Your building looks tired from the street.
We clean the facade with a drone. Nobody leaves the ground, the parking stays open, and the people who live and work there barely notice we came.
The cleaning was never the expensive part.
A dirty facade is easy to keep pushing to next year, and it is rarely about the washing itself. It is about everything that has to happen around it before anyone touches a wall.
Getting up there
Putting people on a nine-storey wall takes equipment, setup time and coordination before a single litre of water is used.
The disruption
Closed parking, blocked entrances, notices going out, and a building that feels like a worksite for as long as it lasts.
So it waits
It moves to next year's budget. Meanwhile the building keeps telling everyone who walks past that nobody is looking after it.
What it looks like when we are there.
We come and look first
Every building has been its own problem: the geometry, the landscaping, where we can set up, what sits underneath. Nothing gets quoted off a photo.
Life keeps going
People came and went through the front doors the whole time. A few stopped to watch for a bit, then carried on with their day. That happens on almost every job.
Some sides go slow
Mature trees against the wall, tight setbacks, awkward corners. When there is something the drone can catch on, nothing moves until the pilot and the ground crew agree.
Buildings book us again
Some of the buildings we cleaned last year called us back this season, and a few are already confirmed for the next one. That is the part I would look at if I were you.
The things people ask me before they ask for a price.
Is this safe over a building full of people?
It is the whole job. There is a wind ceiling I do not cross, a set procedure for every launch and landing, and rules for corners where the air behaves differently. If the conditions are not right, we do not fly that day. That call is mine and I have made it plenty of times.
Who is responsible if something goes wrong?
Commercial work carries liability coverage and the pilot flies under a Transport Canada certificate. Ask me for the specifics before you sign anything, with me or with anyone else. If a contractor will not put that in writing, that tells you something.
Does it actually clean, or just rinse?
It cleans. Glass comes out without streaks because of the water we use, not because of what we spray on it. Walls and other surfaces are a different conversation, and I will tell you on site which one your building is.
Will it damage windows, seals or balconies?
That is exactly what the site visit is for. Older sealant, loose trim, open vents and damaged glass all change how a facade gets treated, and some of them mean a section gets skipped or handled differently. Finding that after the fact is how buildings get hurt.
Do tenants have to do anything?
A notice so people close their windows and bring in what is on the balconies. Nobody has to leave, nothing has to be booked off, and the building keeps operating normally.
When can this be done?
While the weather allows it. The number of workable days in a year here is smaller than most people expect, so the calendar fills from one end. Booking early is not a sales line, it is the whole constraint of this trade in Ontario.
You can fly it. The hard part is filling the calendar.
I am not going to hand you a content template. Templates are why everything looks the same and why nobody stops scrolling. I go into your operation, find the thing that is already interesting in there, and 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 messages from operators in twelve 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 the hour does not go 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 turns into a conversation, and a conversation 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 don't have time to film.
Most of what has worked for me took seconds. A close-up of something in my hand, shot on a phone, standing still. The videos I planned are the ones that went nowhere.
I'm not comfortable on camera.
You do not have to be in the shot. My most watched video is a broken part sitting in my hand. No face, no talking, no script.
My work isn't interesting enough to film.
Mine is water hitting a wall. The reason your work looks ordinary to you is that you have seen it a thousand times. Almost nobody else has seen it once.
I already posted and nothing happened.
That is usually the first thing we find. Posting and being found are two different jobs, and most of the fix is in what the first line does and where the video ends, not in the camera.
Is one hour really enough?
You send me what you want to cover before we talk, and I prepare it. That is what makes an hour work. If your list is bigger than an hour, I will tell you straight before you pay.
I'm Gus. I fly enterprise drones and camera drones, and I do my own marketing.
I live in Ontario, Canada, and I started this business from zero. It has been a good ride, and right now it has me leaving windows spotless from the air, with propellers and pressurised water.
Most of the season I am on enterprise aircraft, in drone facade cleaning. The rest of the time I shoot because I like it — construction trades, Airbnb hosts, whoever has something worth filming.
I have done all my own marketing along the way, learning from the best people in the industry. That took an Instagram account with 500 followers to a steady 300,000 views a month. People write to me from twelve countries now, and I have helped a few of them get more views and land more clients.
When something does not behave the way the manual says it should, I do not argue with it. I go and measure it. That is slower, and it is why the numbers I work from are mine.
I answer my own messages. If you write, you are talking to me.
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. I read both myself, and I will tell you honestly if I am not the right call.
Whichever is easier. The Instagram one usually gets answered first, because my phone is closer than my laptop.
Aerial 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.
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