Commercial Snow & Ice Management · the Lower Mainland
Commercial Snow Removal & Salting in Vancouver, BC
Elite Snow Removal and Salting Services handles commercial snow removal, salting and ice management for parking lots, sidewalks and loading areas across the Lower Mainland. We work strata complexes, plazas, warehouses and medical buildings, and we log every visit so a slip-and-fall claim has a paper trail behind it. Call (604) 800-9612.
Commercial Snow Removal and Salting Across Metro Vancouver. We clear and salt parking lots, sidewalks and loading areas for the property managers, strata councils and owners who carry the liability when someone goes down on the ice.
- Commercial Properties Only
- Salting and Ice Management
- Open 24 Hours, 7 Days
- Serving Metro Vancouver
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Our Services
What We Do Best
Salting and De-Icing
Ice management for commercial lots, walkways and loading areas. In this climate the ice mornings outnumber the snowfalls, and ice is what generates the claims.
Salting and De-Icing in Vancouver, BC →Commercial Snow Removal
Plowing and clearing for parking lots, drive aisles and loading zones. Commercial properties only, on a defined trigger depth.
Commercial Snow Removal in Vancouver, BC →Strata and Condo Contracts
Snow and ice service for strata and condo complexes: visitor parking, underground ramps, common walkways and entries, on one contract the property manager can hand to council.
Strata and Condo Contracts in Vancouver, BC →Seasonal and Per-Visit Contracts
Seasonal coverage for a fixed price, or per-visit billing on a defined trigger. Which one fits depends on your budget and how much variance you can absorb.
Seasonal and Per-Visit Contracts in Vancouver, BC →Site Inspections and Snow Plans
A pre-season walk of the property that produces a written snow response plan: trigger depths, priority surfaces, stack locations and marked obstacles.
Site Inspections and Snow Plans in Vancouver, BC →How a Site Gets Set Up
From First Call to First Freeze
- Step : 01
We Walk the Property
Before anything is priced, we walk the lot with you: entrances, sidewalk runs, catch basins, curbs, wheel stops, and where snow can actually be piled without blocking stalls or sightlines.
- Step : 02
You Get a Written Scope
Which areas get serviced, in what order, on what trigger, and at what rate. Priority doors and fire lanes are named in the document, not left to judgment at 4 a.m.
- Step : 03
We Service the Site
Plow, shovel and blow where it needs clearing, then apply de-icer to the surfaces people actually walk and drive on. Sidewalks and entry approaches get treated on the same visit as the drive aisles.
- Step : 04
You Get the Record
Each visit is logged with the time, the areas covered and the product used, and it goes into your file. That is the document your insurer asks for, and the one nobody has when they need it.
Commercial Only
The Bill That Actually Shows Up Is the Salt Bill
Most people picture snow removal as a plow truck pushing a foot of powder. In the Lower Mainland that is the rare event. What happens far more often is a wet lot at four degrees, a clear night, and a sheet of ice across the entrance by six in the morning. Nobody needs a plow for that. They need product on the ground before the first employee parks. Salting and ice management is where most of a season's work lives here, and it is the reason it sits in our company name instead of as a line item at the bottom of an invoice.
More about the salt bill
That changes how a contract should be written. A pure per-push agreement priced around snowfall depth will not trigger on the mornings that actually put people on the ground, so the property ends up uncovered on exactly the days the risk is highest. We build scopes around pavement temperature and surface condition as well as accumulation, because that is what the climate here does.
Snow itself is not evenly spread across the region either. Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam and Burnaby sit higher and hold real snow. Surrey and Langley land in the middle. Vancouver, Richmond and Delta go whole winters with barely a plowable event while still icing over repeatedly. A single service pattern applied to every site in Metro Vancouver and the surrounding Lower Mainland either overservices half the portfolio or leaves the other half short.
Why Property Managers Call Us
Coverage You Can Put in Front of an Insurer
Salting Treated as the Main Service
De-icing gets its own scope, its own trigger conditions and its own record, rather than riding along behind a plow contract.
Commercial Sites Only
Lots, sidewalks, loading areas and access routes. No residential driveways ahead of your property in the queue.
Every Visit on Record
Date, time, areas serviced, product applied. When a claim lands eighteen months later, that log is the answer.
Reachable Around the Clock
Open 24 hours, 7 days. Ice does not wait for business hours, and neither does the phone.
More about slip-and-fall liability
Why the Contract Exists
Slip-and-Fall Lands on the Property Owner
Somebody falls on your lot, and the question that follows is not whether it snowed. It is what the property did about it. Occupiers' liability puts the duty of reasonable care on whoever controls the premises, which means the owner or the manager acting for them. A tenant's employee, a delivery driver, a visitor coming in for an appointment: they all fall inside that duty.
Reasonable care is proven with records, not intentions. A signed service agreement showing what was supposed to happen, plus visit logs showing that it did, is a real defence. An arrangement where somebody comes by when it looks bad is not, and that gap tends to surface a year and a half after the fall, when memories are gone and there is nothing on paper to point at. This is the actual reason a commercial property carries a snow and ice contract, and it is why we treat the documentation as part of the service rather than as paperwork on the side.
It matters most in the places where people move slowly and in numbers: medical and dental buildings, grocery-anchored centres, schools and churches, and strata complexes where residents cross the same three approaches every day. Those sites carry the highest exposure per square metre of pavement, and they are the ones where a thin de-icing scope shows up as a claim.
Good to Know
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you work on houses?
No. We are commercial only: parking lots, sidewalks, loading areas, and the access routes around them. Property managers, strata councils and commercial owners are who we contract with.
Why is salting a bigger deal here than plowing?
The Lower Mainland sits on the freeze-thaw line. Most winters bring a handful of plowable snowfalls and a long run of mornings where a wet lot froze overnight. Ice is the recurring hazard, which is why de-icing is the bulk of the work.
What areas do you cover?
We cover Metro Vancouver and the surrounding Lower Mainland. Snowfall is uneven across the region, so a Coquitlam or Burnaby site is on a different service pattern than a Richmond or Delta one.
Do you document the work?
Yes. Every visit is logged: date, time, areas serviced, and what product went down. That record is what your insurer and your lawyer ask for when a slip-and-fall claim shows up months later.
What does a visit cost?
It depends on the lot, the sidewalk footage and the priority areas. Per-visit minimums start around $400, and we quote after walking the site rather than over the phone.
How do I get started?
Call (604) 800-9612 or send the form on this page with your property address, and we will set up a site walk.
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