Drone cleaning footage · Coral Gables

Aerial pass down a Coral Gables high-rise facade by cleaning drone

40 sec · Filmed on site at Belmont Village, Coral Gables · Vista Drone Cleaning

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An aerial pass down the facade of a Coral Gables high-rise during a drone exterior cleaning. Vista Drone Cleaning's tethered soft-wash drone reaches the full building envelope with no scaffolding.

What you are seeing

A continuous working pass down one elevation of the building, following the bay from the parapet down toward grade.

Top-down is the working order. Rinse water carries loosened soil downward, so a facade is always cleaned from the parapet toward grade to avoid re-soiling finished work below.

About this project

This footage was filmed at Belmont Village Coral Gables, an occupied senior-living high-rise developed in collaboration with Baptist Health South Florida. Vista Drone Cleaning cleaned more than 130,000 square feet of exterior (facade, windows, floor surfaces and the parapet) at $0.20 per square foot, all in, in seven days, with the building fully occupied throughout: no scaffolding, no swing stages, no rope access, no lifts, and no closed sidewalks, drop-off lanes, or entrances.

• Tethered soft-wash drone to 200 ft, plus a 70 ft water-fed pole from grade, about 18 stories.
• Heated sodium percarbonate (oxygen bleach), so no sodium hypochlorite, no chlorine odor and no plant kill at grade.
• Flown under FAA Part 107 with $2M liability insurance in force.
• Management asked Vista back on a semi-annual schedule, twice a year.

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See the full Coral Gables high-rise case study