Vista Drone Cleaning, a South Florida exterior cleaning company, has completed the full exterior cleaning of Belmont Village Senior Living in Coral Gables, a luxury senior living high-rise. The work covered more than 130,000 square feet of facade, windows and floor surfaces in seven days. No entrance was closed and no resident had to move.
For a senior living community, each of the usual access methods brings a problem. Boom lifts take over driveways and entrances, scaffolding has to be put up and taken down around the building, and swing stages and rope access put crews outside residents’ windows for the length of the job. The building also has a parapet that none of those methods could reach.
Vista cleaned the building with a tethered cleaning drone, flown by FAA Part 107 certified pilots and supplied with water and cleaning solution through its tether from a ground rig. The drone soft-washed the facade, the glass and the parapet at low pressure from the air, and the courtyard, pergola and deck surfaces were washed in the same visit. No lifts, scaffolding, swing stages or rope access were used, and there were no closures.
The project was delivered at $0.20 per square foot, all in, across the full scope. Belmont Village has since asked Vista back on a twice-yearly schedule.
“In a senior living building the residents are home all day, so the work has to stay out of their way,” said Eliot De Paz, owner of Vista Drone Cleaning. “Working from the air meant every entrance stayed open and nobody had to move.”
Vista prices commercial facade and window cleaning at $0.12 to $0.25 per square foot, with a fixed price set after a free site survey, and larger buildings receive lower rates. Each drone staging position reaches up to 200 feet, about 18 stories. The full case study, with before-and-after photography, is available at https://vistadronecleaning.com/case-studies/coral-gables-luxury-high-rise
About Vista Drone Cleaning: Vista Drone Cleaning is a Florida exterior cleaning company based in North Miami Beach. It cleans commercial facades, windows, roofs and parking garages across Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties using tethered cleaning drones, water-fed poles and ground rigs. Its pilots hold FAA Part 107 certification, and the company carries $2 million in general liability coverage plus dedicated drone liability coverage.
