Bees on a condo balcony or tower roof come out alive, but the job starts with building paperwork, not a ladder. Your manager gets our certificate of insurance, the service elevator gets booked, and a thermal camera finds the comb before anything opens. Text balcony photos for a price range.
Signs a building colony is your problem
- Bees diving into a balcony planter, especially one built into the railing wall.
- A line of bees entering the closet that holds your air handler.
- Traffic at the end of an accordion shutter stack or roll-down hood.
- Bees at a rooftop fan housing, parapet seam or machine room louver.
- Lost bees circling the garage lights, with more showing up along a ceiling joint.
Balcony hiding spots in a Broward condo
A balcony packs plenty of hollow space onto one slab. Planters poured into the railing wall, the closet around the air handler and the pocket at each end of an accordion shutter all suit a scout. In a planter, soil settles, a gap opens under the lip, and comb hangs into the void.
Seasonal units make it worse: an owner in Hallandale Beach or Hillsboro Beach who rolls the shutters down in spring hands a colony a quiet summer (see our shutter guide).
Rooftops, garages and pool decks
Up top, colonies settle into machine room louvers, exhaust fan housings and cracked parapet caps. Wind up there scatters loose bees, so comb goes straight into sealed totes.
Garages offer ceiling voids and expansion joint covers. Foragers crowding the water (why bees love a pool) may come from a planter, pump room or cabana roof on the property (a roof job), or from well beyond it.
Bees on your balcony or building roof?
Text a photo through the slider; management gets our COI.
COIs, elevators and concrete crews
Many towers won't let a contractor past the lobby without a certificate of insurance on file, often naming the association. Ours goes over with a written scope, and the manager books the service elevator.
Florida's milestone inspection law reaches condo buildings three habitable stories or taller by the end of the year they turn 30 (25 if the local building agency cites nearby salt water). If follow-up concrete repairs uncover a colony, have the crew stop and call (954) 429-5133.
Owners, associations and shared roofs
A declaration may make a balcony a limited common element, while roofs, garages and pool decks usually stay with the association. See our condo and HOA bee rules.
In garden condos or villa rows, comb in a shared attic can span two units, and the documents may assign that roof to the association, the owners or both. Clubhouses fall under HOA and commercial removal.
What's Included and What Changes the Price
Part of every job
- Certificate of insurance sent to management or the board before work starts
- Thermal scan before any planter, closet or housing is opened
- Live capture, with the colony relocated to a beekeeper
- Comb and honey bagged and carried out via the service elevator
- Cavity sealed, with stucco, paint or roofing by our own trades
What moves the price
- Reach: a ground-floor patio planter or a rooftop machine room
- Loose planter soil versus comb in a wall, slab edge or shutter housing
- Building rules on work times, elevator use and truck parking
- Timing: a tower emergency handled at night or on a weekend is billed above a scheduled weekday job
A colony in a ground-floor patio planter or pool deck hedge usually costs $300 to $400. Once comb is built behind a balcony wall, up in a shutter housing or inside a rooftop enclosure, removal and repair together can climb into the thousands. A texted photo narrows it; see our pricing page.
Compare job types on the pricing page.
How a condo job runs from lobby to patch
- Photos and paperworkYou text balcony or roof photos and get a range back; the manager receives our insurance certificate and a written scope.
- Book the buildingManagement reserves the elevator and a loading window; we confirm parking, front desk check-in and which neighbors keep their glass shut.
- Locate and removeBefore anyone unscrews a closet panel or digs into a planter, the thermal camera shows exactly where the comb is. Every bee is captured alive and leaves the building boxed, bound for a beekeeper's apiary.
- Clean, seal and documentNothing stays in the cavity: each comb is pulled, the leftover honey is scraped off, and our own contractors, roofers or painters patch the gap. For its records, the board receives photos of the finished spot plus an itemized invoice.
Where condo calls come from in Broward
- Fort Lauderdale
High-rise condos line the Galt Ocean Mile, and several of the city's tallest towers stand near Las Olas Boulevard.
- Hallandale Beach
Nearly a third of homes stood empty on 2020 census day; a vacant unit's balcony can hide a colony for months.
- Hillsboro Beach
Condos and estate homes share Hillsboro Mile, and town rules limit construction to weekday daytime hours, so repairs get scheduled inside them.
- Deerfield Beach
Century Village East's thousands of condos fill buildings of two to four floors, so one colony under a shared roof can sit above several owners.
Questions About Condo & High-Rise Bee Removal
Will bees get into my unit during the removal?
Rarely, if the glass stays shut. Keep the slider and equipment closet closed and bring pets in. Bees indoors beforehand point to a gap from the balcony into a wall or ceiling, so mention it; that tells the thermal camera where to start.
Can you reach a balcony on an upper floor?
Usually from the balcony itself, since planters, closets and shutter pockets open from inside the railing. A colony on the building's outer face needs its own access plan, worked out with management first, and that extra reach raises the price.
Who pays, the owner or the association?
That depends on where the comb sits and how your declaration divides upkeep. Give management dated photos first, then text us those same shots. Our free quote goes to whoever books the work, and so do the photos and itemized invoice.
A ball of bees is hanging on our railing. Is that a hive?
Probably not yet. Bees bunched in the open are usually a swarm parked while its scouts inspect cavities, and your planter or shutter stack could be on their list. Moving them before comb goes in is a far smaller job; see swarm removal or call (954) 429-5133.
One crew, from the lobby to the last patch
Ground floor or penthouse, the 24-hour response guarantee holds at any height, and a balcony photo sent to (954) 429-5133 is all the free quote needs.