Snow Removal Across Lower Mainland & the Fraser Valley
Only Strata has sucessfully served 2,150+ properties with full-scope snow removal and salting contracts.
Only Strata Snow Removal is the Lower Mainland's strata-only and residential-only snow clearing and plowing company — serving 22 cities with the same documented, capacity-capped winter program. We don't split focus between commercial warehouses and residential communities. Every property we serve is a strata, condo, apartment, townhome, senior residence, or multi-unit building.
Lower Mainland
Vancouver
Serving 105+ strata and residential properties across all 22 official neighbourhoods, from Kitsilano to Renfrew-Collingwood.
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Burnaby
Serving 57 + properties. Elevation-aware service built for Burnaby Mountain, Capitol Hill, and Metrotown — where the same storm means snow at SFU and rain in Richmond.
Richmond
Serving 63 + strata and residential properties. Flat geography, coastal freeze-thaw cycles, and high strata density across the No. 3 Road corridor.
New Westminster
Serving 38+ properties. Dense, hillside multi-family properties requiring slope-aware plowing and early morning dispatch.
Delta
Serving 62+ properties. Large-lot strata communities and townhome complexes across North Delta and Ladner.
Surrey
Serving 85+ strata properties across all six town centres — from South Surrey's coastal communities to Cloverdale's hillside stratas.
Langley
Currently serving 51+ strata and multi-unit residential properties across Langley City and Township.
Tsawwassen
Currently serving 22+ Strata and townhome communities near the ferry terminal and Tsawwassen Mills.
White Rock
Serving 38+ properties. Hillside senior residences and ocean-adjacent strata properties with distinct freeze-thaw exposure.
UBC
Managed residential strata on the UBC endowment lands and UniverCity-adjacent communities. Currently serving 17+ properties.
North Shore
North Vancouver
Hillside strata communities and apartment buildings across Lower Lonsdale, Lynn Valley, and Capilano. Currently serving 41+ properties.
West Vancouver
Strata and senior residence communities from Ambleside to Horseshoe Bay. Currently serving 24+ properties.
Tri-Cities
Coquitlam
Serving Westwood Plateau, Burke Mountain, and Austin Heights stratas with elevation-aware service. Currently serving 39+ properties.
Port Coquitlam
Multi-unit residential and townhome strata communities across PoCo's growing residential zones. Currently serving 22+ properties.
Port Moody
Rocky Point and Inlet Centre strata properties with a mix of high-rise and townhome communities. Currently serving 16+ properties.
Ridge Meadows
Maple Ridge
Large-footprint townhome strata communities and senior residences across the Maple Ridge corridor. Currently serving 35+ properties.
Pitt Meadows
Growing strata communities in one of Metro Vancouver's newest residential development zones. Currently serving 17 + properties.
Fraser Valley
Abbotsford
Serving stratas across Abbotsford's large, fast-growing residential zones with Fraser Valley-calibrated winter coverage. Currently serving 48+ properties.
Chilliwack
Multi-unit strata communities across Chilliwack's expanding residential developments. Currently serving 27+ properties.
Mission
Strata and residential properties requiring slope-aware service for hillside neighbourhoods. Currently serving 16 + Mission properties.
Hope
Year-round snow capability for Hope's strata and multi-unit properties at the gateway to the interior. Currently serving 15+ Hope properties.
Kent
Strata and residential communities in the Agassiz-Harrison corridor. Currently serving 18+ Agassiz and Harrison properties.
CHOA Member
Active member of chambers of commerce across the Lower Mainland & Fraser Valley.
5 Million Insured & 0 Liability Claims
Incorporated 2016. 30+ Years Combined Experience
Snow Clearing & Plowing Across BC's Lower Mainland — Regional Conditions and What They Demand
​The Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley together form one of the most climatically and geographically varied snow removal service areas in Canada. Spanning sea-level river deltas, dense coastal flatlands, steep hillside communities, elevation-variable cities, and colder inland valleys, the region requires a snow removal company to be genuinely competent across conditions that differ not just city to city, but neighbourhood to neighbourhood within the same municipality.
What Competence Across These Conditions Actually Requires
A snow removal company operating credibly across the entire Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley cannot rely on a single fleet type, a single scheduling model, or a single approach to salting and timing.
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The same contractor must understand freeze-thaw dynamics in coastal Richmond, slope retention in North Vancouver, micro-climate variability in Burnaby, and sustained cold-event management in Chilliwack — often dispatching crews to all of these simultaneously during a regional storm event.
The most common failure point is not equipment or staffing — it is over-commitment. Companies that accept properties across 22 cities without capping their roster invariably deprioritize some zones during high-demand events, leaving strata councils exposed to exactly the liability they hired a contractor to prevent.
Capacity management across this geographic range is as operationally important as any piece of equipment in the fleet.
How Only Strata Serves 22 Cities Without Compromising Any of Them
Serving 22 cities across the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley is a logistical commitment that most snow removal companies make and quietly fail to honour the moment a regional storm tests their actual capacity.
Zone-by-Zone Capacity Caps
Every city in Only Strata's service area has a hard maximum on the number of properties accepted per winter — when a zone fills, it closes, regardless of additional demand. This means a property enrolled in August has the same guaranteed dispatch priority in February as it did in November, because no zone is ever allowed to fill beyond what our crews can service within the required response window.
Multi-City Dispatch During Regional Storm Events
A storm across the Lower Mainland doesn't affect all 22 cities equally — the same system that brings 15 cm to Abbotsford may deliver freezing rain to Vancouver on the same night, each requiring different equipment, treatment, and response timing simultaneously. Only Strata operates from distributed equipment hubs across the service area, and every property has a pre-mapped service plan so crews arriving at 3:00 AM already know the layout, priority sequence, and documentation protocol without live coordination.
What 2,150+ Properties and 10+ Winters Has Taught Us
The events that generate the most slip-and-fall liability in BC's Lower Mainland are not heavy snowfalls — they are overnight freeze events after daytime melt, leaving invisible black ice on shaded walkways and parkade ramps that a contractor dispatching only on accumulation depth will miss entirely. Across 2,150+ properties and 10+ winters, Only Strata has also learned which property types are most chronically underserved: senior residences, hillside townhome complexes, and large Fraser Valley strata communities where service time is consistently underestimated by contractors who priced the job in dry conditions.
What to Ask Before You Book
Ask any snow removal contractor how many properties they service, whether they cap capacity per zone, what their documented service rate was during the last major regional event, and whether they carry $5M in liability insurance with GPS-documented service logs. Only Strata answers all of these directly — spots in each zone fill between August and October, and properties that enrol early receive pre-season site walkthroughs and guaranteed dispatch priority from the first snowfall.
Frequently Asked Questions FAQ
Book Before October — Spots Fill Fast
Free quotes returned within 4 business hours — limited spots available each winter
Only Strata caps the number of properties accepted per zone each winter. Once a zone closes, it stays closed for the season regardless of demand. Properties that enrol between August and October get priority scheduling, pre-season site walkthroughs, and guaranteed dispatch from the first snowfall.
