Case Study
Window Cleaning · Wynwood, Miami
Sentral Wynwood: window cleaning with an MOT plan, permits, drone and rope access, case study
51 NW 26th St, Miami, FL 33127
The facade and every window of a mixed-use Wynwood apartment building, cleaned in two days by a drone and a rope access crew working at the same time. Working over a city street took a maintenance of traffic plan, City permits and a same-week rental of metered parking spaces.
- 2 days
- on site, Friday and Sunday, a day ahead of the deadline
- 2 crews
- drone and rope access working at the same time
- $0.10
- per sq ft, facade and every exterior window
- 0
- shops closed, with an MOT plan for the street side
Call / Text
(786) 292-3637Service Area
South Florida
A street-front building and a Monday deadline
Sentral Wynwood is a mixed-use apartment building at 51 NW 26th St, with shops and a restaurant at street level and apartments above. Mold, mildew and mineral streaks had built up on the glass and window frames, and many of the windows sit behind horizontal railings and metal fins or in tight inside corners. The building wanted all of it done by Monday.
The street side was the hard part. The drone works above the sidewalk and the travel lane, and FAA rules for commercial drones restrict flying over people and moving cars. The wash rig and hose also had to sit in the street. So the job needed a maintenance of traffic (MOT) plan, City permits for the work in the public right-of-way, and metered parking spaces rented from the Miami Parking Authority to stage the rig and keep the space under the drone clear.
The parking came up on the first morning: a Miami Parking Authority officer let us know the curb spaces had to be rented, not just coned off, and we put the rental request in that morning.
Drone on the open glass, ropes on the rest
- The street first: the maintenance of traffic plan set out where the cones, tape and spotter went, so the sidewalk and lane under the drone stayed empty while every shop entrance stayed open.
- Two crews at once: the tethered drone took the open glass from the top of the building down, while our rope access technicians worked the windows behind the railings and metal fins and in the tight inside corners.
- Mold and mineral detail: glass and frames carrying mold and mildew got a low-pressure soft wash, and the rope crew worked the mineral streaks by hand where the spray alone could not finish them.
- Purified water finish: every pane was finished with deionized water, so it dries spot-free without a squeegee.
- Rig at the curb: the wash rig stayed in the rented meter spaces and fed water up the tether to the drone, with the hose run kept along the gutter.
Rope access on the street elevation: the glass behind the railings and fins, cleaned by hand.
Filmed by our crew, Friday and Sunday
Phone footage from both days on site. Tap a clip to play it.
More clips from this job are on our YouTube channel.
Clear glass, open shops, a day to spare
Both crews finished on Sunday, a day ahead of the Monday deadline. Every shop and the restaurant stayed open on both days.
Building management called it “the best, fastest window cleaning” and said they would refer us to other buildings.
Facade and windows together, the job came to about $0.10 per sq ft across roughly 68,000 sq ft of outside wall, measured from aerial imagery. That is below our standard commercial range of $0.12–$0.25 per sq ft: it was a fixed price agreed before the job, and bigger jobs get lower rates. Every job is a fixed price after a free site survey, and on this one the MOT plan, permits and parking were part of that price.
Most buildings we clean by drone alone. This one needed both: the drone is fastest on open glass, and rope access still wins where the glass sits behind railings and fins. Splitting the building between them is how a job planned for four working days took two. See how the two methods compare in rope access vs drone cleaning.
Cleaning windows over a Miami street: what to plan for
- An MOT plan when the work, the rig or the drone’s flight path covers a sidewalk or a lane, so nobody walks or drives under the drone.
- City permits for work in the public right-of-way, approved before the crew sets up.
- Metered spaces rented from the Miami Parking Authority, booked ahead of the work dates.
- Notice to tenants, so shops and residents know which elevation is being worked and when.
We plan all of it with the building before the crew arrives.
Street-front building?
Tell us the address. We will work out the MOT, permits and parking, and send a fixed price. Quotes come back within 24 hours.
Call / Text
(786) 292-3637Service Area
South Florida
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