What's Included

A swing stage is a motorized platform that lowers a two-person crew down your facade from the roof. If your building doesn't already have one, we handle the rental and mobilization — crews, rigging, everything.

Every setup is engineered for the specific building. The platform hangs from roof-mounted outrigger beams with calculated counterweights, or from permanent davit arms where the building has them. The hoists raising and lowering the platform run on a redundant braking system, and each crew member is tied into an independent fall-arrest line anchored separately from the platform itself — nothing shares a single point of failure.

Rigs are inspected before every shift. Crews are OSHA-trained, two people minimum, working under a lead supervisor on-site the entire time.

Yearly visual inspections are free for clients — email hello@cleantowers.com to schedule.

Is Swing Stage Right for Your Building?

Swing stage is built for tall, flat facades. It's the right call when your building has:

• Flat curtain wall or punched windows — minimal setbacks, bump-outs, or obstructions
• A clean roofline with accessible tie-back points or existing davit arms
• Adequate ground clearance — room to load the platform in and out safely
• Large, repeatable pane runs — where one platform width covers a lot of glass per drop

For architecturally complex facades — heavy setbacks, inset balconies, cantilevers — rope access is usually the better fit.

Maintenance Cadence

For most buildings, we recommend quarterly service on sun-facing facades and biannual service on shaded faces. Swing stage gets more efficient over repeat visits — once tie-back points and rigging plans are on file, mobilization on each return is faster. We'll set a cadence specific to your building after the site walk.

Capabilities

Swing stage covers the full range of flat-facade high-rise work:

• Standard cleaning programs across full building envelopes
• Glass restoration and hard-water removal using cerium oxide and mechanical polishing, from a stable platform
• Sealant and gasket inspections — documented condition surveys of weatherseals and perimeter caulking
• Multi-shift programs for large buildings, run to minimize tenant disruption
• Davit integration — we're trained and certified to work from permanent davit systems where they exist

Benefits

Compared to rope access or BMU-only work, swing stage offers:

• Higher production on flat facades — two cleaners on a platform clear far more glass per hour than rope on the same facade
• Lower cost per pane on the right buildings — setup efficiency and production rate combine to bring per-pane cost down
• A stable platform for detail work — glass restoration, polishing, and sealant work are all easier from a platform than from rope
• Capacity to carry tools and materials — useful for combined cleaning-and-inspection programs
• Familiarity for building staff — swing stage is the access method most facilities teams already know, which simplifies approvals and coordination

Swing stage isn't right for every building. But for the flat-facade towers it fits, nothing matches its combination of speed, cost-efficiency, and platform stability.

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