Start a Business Keeping Rooftops Clean.
No Ladders, One Drone.
The Aspira AC Lite treats rooftops, walls and windows, flown from the ground. The complete system is £17,000 +VAT. Add a small van, a water tank and a spotter, and you're in business.
THE OPPORTUNITY
Moss & Lichen doesn't wait.
Most roofs are only dealt with once it's a problem.
UK exterior cleaning is a £450m sector growing 5 to 7% a year.
Almost all of it is reactive: wait until the roof looks bad and start to damage tiles, then pay for scaffolding and a one-off clean that starts the cycle again.
Prevention barely exists as a service in most areas. That's the gap. Not one-off jobs, but maintenance rounds. The model that made window cleaning a trade for a century, applied to every roof on the street.
Fast to apply. No rinse. Built for volume.
The solution is a coating drone. Reach rooftops with ease. No ropes or scaffolding - even on a three storey town house.
Remove the dangers of working at height and the risk of damaging tiles walking on customer's roofs.
Before coating
After treatment
Small jobs pay
The unit is light, quick to set up and in the air in minutes, so a £400 roof is worth the callout on its own. No access equipment to hire, no half-day setup to recover. When one street sees you work, one job has a habit of becoming three.
Repeat business is built in
Coatings work over weeks, not minutes, but once working the results last for months. Be straight with customers about both and this year's roofs become next year's diary. Once they know a clean roof is easily achieved, they'll be back time and time again.
A two-person job, done from the ground
You fly, your spotter watches the airspace. That's a CAA requirement, and it's the whole crew: no rope team, no scaffolding gang, no working at height. Jobs that needed a cherry picker now need a parking space and a mate.
What is included in the package
£17,000 + VAT
Aspira AC Lite Coating Drone
Purpose built for coating and made in the UK, it has an impressive flow rate of up to 10.5L per minute
SIYI MK15 Controller
Professional grade controller allowing precision movements of your drone, with a large screen to see the cleaning face
ARBC 615 Pump
Compact and powerful pump operating at 10.5L/min at 1900 PSI
Supplied with a 30 metre hose.
Also includes rifled tip with 45 degree adapter, 3 batteries and charger and a SORA template for gaining flight authorisation
What else will you need?
You'll need a van and a water container - both of which we can advise on, but are down to your personal preference
AC Lite Coating Drone
SIYI MK15 Controller
3 x Li-ion Batteries
Rifled nozzle & lance
ARBC 615 Pump
30 Metre Hose
What could your returns look like?
This varies region to region and depends on a few factors. For a single property we estimate you're looking at charging between £300 and £800+, but it's your business, so you set the pricing.
You're not tied to one patch. A drone packs into a van, so your market is as wide as you're willing to drive, from residential streets to the commercial units and industrial estates that traditional access can't reach economically.
Work also has a way of multiplying on its own: treat one visible rooftop and the enquiries tend to follow, because a moss-free rooftop is its own advertisement. Just remember that coatings work over time and need reapplication for the best results, so build that into your pricing and your customers become repeat business, not one-off jobs.
What about licensing and training?
Commercial drone work needs CAA certification: a GVC (around £500 to £1,000) and, for spray work, an operational authorisation built on a SORA (budget around £3,000).
Both are yours to arrange, and we'll point you to the right people. We supply a SORA template to make it cheaper and faster.
You sort the paperwork, we teach you the machine.
Ready to take to the skies?
Talk to the team.
We'll run through the system, the full startup list, what certification you'll need to arrange, and the training we give you on the machine.
Straight answers on whether this fits your situation.