About Us
About Elite Snow Removal and Salting Services
Elite Snow Removal and Salting Services is a commercial snow and ice contractor working across Metro Vancouver and the surrounding Lower Mainland. We service parking lots, sidewalks, loading areas and access routes for property managers, strata councils and commercial owners, with a written scope per site and a logged record of every visit. Call (604) 800-9612.
Commercial Snow Removal and Salting Across Metro Vancouver.
A Contractor Built Around Ice, Not Just Snow
Elite Snow Removal and Salting Services works commercial property across Metro Vancouver and the surrounding Lower Mainland: parking lots, sidewalk runs, loading areas, ramps and the access routes between them. The customers are property managers, strata councils and the owners who carry the liability when a surface goes untreated.
Salting sits in the company name because it is what this climate demands. A contractor here who treats de-icing as an add-on to plowing has the priorities backwards, and the property finds out on the mornings that never triggered a plow visit.
- Commercial Properties Only
- Salting and Ice Management
- Open 24 Hours, 7 Days
- Serving Metro Vancouver
How We Operate
Three Things That Shape Every Contract
Commercial Only
Lots, walks, docks and access routes. No residential driveways sitting ahead of a plaza in the queue on the morning it matters.
De-Icing Scoped Separately
Salting has its own trigger conditions and its own line in the agreement, so it runs on the ice mornings a snowfall-depth clause would skip.
Everything on Record
Each visit logged with time, areas and product. That file is the property's defence, and it only exists if somebody builds it as they go.
How We Work
What Happens Before the Season Starts
Everything begins with walking the property, and there is no substitute for it. Satellite imagery will not tell you that the north entrance drains across itself and refreezes, or that the sidewalk beside the loading bay is city right-of-way the property is still expected to keep passable, or that there is nowhere to stack snow without burying four stalls and the fire lane. Those are the details that decide whether a scope works in February.
From the walk comes a written document: surfaces listed individually, service order set by opening time and foot traffic, trigger conditions stated in terms of accumulation and pavement temperature rather than vague language, snow storage locations marked, rates and the per-visit minimum spelled out. You should be able to hand that document to your insurer and have it mean something.
Then the season runs, and each visit produces its own record. This is the part contractors skip, because it costs time on a night when everyone is tired and there are six more sites. It is also the only part that survives eighteen months later when a statement of claim shows up and somebody asks what the property did about the ice on a specific Tuesday morning.
Why We Turn Some Work Down
A snow route only works if the sites on it are near each other. Take a property forty minutes off the run and one of two things happens on a bad morning: it gets serviced last and too late, or everything behind it slips. Either way somebody's scope gets broken. So we grow by filling in around routes we already run, and when a property does not fit we say so rather than signing it and hoping the winter is mild.
The same applies to residential. That work looks like easy revenue in October and turns into a scheduling problem in January, when a dozen driveways compete with a medical building that opens at seven. Staying commercial-only is how the commitments in a commercial scope stay keepable.
Who We Work For
The Properties on Our Book
Strip plazas and grocery-anchored centres. Strata and condo complexes. Industrial and warehouse parks. Medical and dental buildings. Auto dealerships. Schools and churches. Different buildings, one shared exposure: people crossing pavement that was wet the night before, and an owner or manager who answers for it if the surface was not treated.
Each type pushes the scope somewhere different. A dealership needs display rows clear enough to sell from and a lot surface that will not slide a customer into a vehicle. A school concentrates its entire foot traffic into two ten-minute windows and needs the walks done before the first of them. A warehouse yard is less about pedestrians and more about grade, dock aprons and loaded trailers that do not stop the way an empty one does. A strata has residents on the walks at every hour, which removes the overnight window most contracts quietly rely on.
What You Can Expect From Us
Straight answers about what a property needs and what it will cost, including when the honest answer is that a site does not need the full plow package. A scope you can read and check the work against. Records you do not have to chase. And a clear no when we cannot service something properly, which is worth more to a property manager than a yes that falls apart in the first real cold snap.
If you are reviewing contractors for the coming season, or you already have a contract and want to know what it is missing, call (604) 800-9612. We will walk the site and tell you what we see.
Good to Know
About Us FAQ
Do you take residential work?
No. Commercial property only. Driveways and residential strata townhouse units are not what our equipment or our scheduling is built around, and mixing them in is how commercial sites end up serviced late.
Why is salting in the company name?
Because in the Lower Mainland it is the larger half of the work. Plowable snowfalls are occasional. Mornings where a wet lot froze overnight are routine, and those are the ones that produce falls.
What areas do you cover?
Metro Vancouver and the surrounding Lower Mainland. Coverage depends on route density more than distance, so call (604) 800-9612 with an address and we will give you a straight answer.
Do you provide service records?
Yes, as part of the contract rather than on request. Date, time, areas serviced and product applied, per visit. It is the document that matters when a claim arrives.
What does a site cost to service?
It depends on lot size, sidewalk footage, priority areas and where the property sits on a route. Per-visit minimums start around $400. We quote after walking the site.