Elite Snow Removal and Salting Services · Seasonal and Per-Visit Contracts
Seasonal and Per-Visit Snow Contracts in Vancouver, BC
Elite Snow Removal and Salting Services offers two contract structures for Metro Vancouver commercial properties. A seasonal contract fixes your winter cost regardless of how the weather runs. Per-visit billing charges only when we attend, on an agreed trigger. Both define the covered surfaces in writing before the season starts.
The contract question is really a budget question. A seasonal agreement is a fixed number you can put in the operating budget in September and forget about. Per-visit billing costs less in a mild winter and more in a hard one. In a freeze-thaw region like this, per-visit invoices are driven mostly by salting frequency, not by snowfall.
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The Difference
Why Property Managers Choose Elite Snow Removal and Salting Services for Seasonal and Per-Visit Contracts
Fixed Cost or Actual Cost
Seasonal removes the variance from your budget. Per-visit keeps the invoice tied to what actually happened. Neither is automatically cheaper.
Coverage Written Down First
Trigger depth, covered surfaces and salting scope agreed before winter, so nobody argues about scope during an event.
Priced Off the Real Site
We price from a site walk, not from a square-footage guess over the phone.
Watch For These
Signs You Need Seasonal and Per-Visit Contracts
- Winter maintenance costs you cannot forecast for the operating budget
- A landlord or tenant lease that requires defined winter service
- Last winter's invoices arriving with no agreed scope behind them
- Several properties you would rather cover under one agreement
- A budget cycle closing and no snow contractor lined up
Any of these on your site? Call (604) 800-9612 or request a quote.
Our Process
The Elite Snow Removal and Salting Services Seasonal and Per-Visit Contracts Process
- 01
Site Walk
We measure the lot, note the pedestrian surfaces, and identify what actually needs service.
- 02
Structure the Contract
Seasonal or per-visit, with the trigger and scope written into it.
- 03
Service the Season
We attend on the agreed trigger from first event to last.
- 04
Season Records
Service logs kept through the winter and available on request.
Good to Know
Seasonal and Per-Visit Contracts: What a Property Manager Should Know
What a Seasonal Agreement Fixes in Advance
Snow service on a commercial site is arranged before the season, not negotiated during an event. It starts with a walk of the property alongside whoever carries responsibility for it. We record the surfaces that have to stay open and the order they matter in, which is normally entries, crosswalks, and the transitions from lot up onto sidewalk first, then drive lanes, then overflow parking. We mark where snow can be stacked without eating stalls, blocking a sightline at an exit, or damming the drainage, and we note the obstacles a machine has to miss after dark: curb stops, bollards, landscape beds, catch basins, and anything low enough to disappear under a few centimetres.
Then the agreement fixes the triggers. Plowing is tied to an accumulation depth agreed in writing, and a long event can mean more than one pass so the lot is not buried again by the time it stops. De-icing runs on its own trigger, off surface condition and temperature rather than off whether anything fell. Service runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week through the season, which matters because failures on commercial property almost never happen at a convenient hour. They happen between four and seven in the morning, before anyone from the building has arrived to see it.
The reason to hold a contract rather than call per storm is what happens after an incident. A slip-and-fall on an untreated surface lands on the property owner, and an adjuster's question is not whether it was icy, it is what the owner did about a condition they should reasonably have anticipated. A written trigger plus a dated, timed log of every visit answers that. A phone history of ad hoc calls does not. Conditions on site that keep generating ice, a downspout discharging across a walkway or a low spot that never drains, get reported to the owner in writing, because a known condition that was flagged and one that was ignored are very different things in a claim.
Good to Know
Seasonal and Per-Visit Contracts: Frequently Asked Questions
Seasonal or per-visit: which costs less?
Depends on the winter. Seasonal costs more in a mild year and less in a hard one. If you need budget certainty, seasonal; if you can absorb the swing, per-visit.
What does a visit cost?
Our per-visit minimum is roughly $400, and the actual number depends on the site. We quote after a site walk, not over the phone.
When should we sign?
Before the season. Once the first event lands, everyone is calling at once and scopes get written badly.
Can salting be per-visit while plowing is seasonal?
We can structure it that way. In this climate salting is the frequent line item, so how it is billed matters more than how plowing is.
Do you contract for more than one property?
Yes. Multiple sites under one agreement is common for property managers and it usually prices better than site-by-site.