Cleaning Multi-Story and High-Rise Buildings Without Lifts
Cleaning the exterior of a tall building has always meant lifts, scaffolding, or crews on ropes. All of it is slow, costly, and disruptive to the people working or living inside. Drone soft wash reaches the same surfaces from the air, so a multi-story building gets a complete, even clean faster and with far less interruption.
The problem with the old way
Boom lifts and scaffolding are expensive to rent and stage, often need permits or lane closures, and put workers at height for days or weeks. For a hospital, school, or occupied office, that means blocked entrances, equipment on the grounds, and a long disruption. The taller the building, the worse all of it gets.
How we reach high surfaces
We clean the lower, reachable areas from the ground and ladders, and we use a professional spray drone for everything above that, up to roughly 200 feet, about 18 stories. For the high work we fly an Apellix drone that carries a low-pressure soft wash solution right to the surface. It is flown manually by a skilled operator, with no lift, no scaffold, and no one working off the roof edge.
Soft wash, not pressure
Building exteriors, whether stucco, painted surfaces, or panel systems, are cleaned with a soft wash, not high pressure. The solution does the work of killing and removing algae, mildew, and grime, so the surface is cleaned without the force that can drive water behind cladding or damage finishes.
Faster, with less disruption
Because there is no equipment to stage and no height access to build, a multi-story exterior can be cleaned in days rather than weeks. The building keeps operating, entrances stay open, and there is no lift parked out front for a month. For property managers, that reduced disruption is often as valuable as the clean itself.
Proven at scale
This is not theoretical. Exo-Pro has cleaned hundreds of thousands of square feet of exterior for Florida hospitals, school districts, colleges, and county governments, including multi-building campuses and tall public facilities. The approach holds up on real institutional work, at scale, on deadline.
The honest advantage
The drone advantage on tall buildings is geometry, not gimmick. Flying close to the surface and spraying square to it puts the solution exactly where it belongs. Compare that to a ground crew throwing solution sixty or a hundred feet up through open air, where wind scatters it, coverage is uneven, and overspray lands on everything below. Close and controlled beats far and hopeful.
Frequently asked questions.
How tall can you reach?
Up to roughly 200 feet, about 18 stories, using the drone for the high work and ground and ladder cleaning for the lower areas.
Do we have to shut the building down?
No. The work is done from the air and the ground, so the building keeps operating and entrances stay open.
Is soft wash safe for stucco, panel systems, and glass?
Yes. Soft wash uses low pressure and the cleaning solution does the work, so it is safe for building finishes and windows.
How long does it take?
Most multi-story exteriors are completed in days, not the weeks that lift and scaffold access would require.