In late 2015,
Cleanr Property Maintenance was founded (originally as Kildonan Snow Removal) with $200 by Kristian Zoppa. Having grown up with entrepreneurial spirits,
lawn care, and snow removal were an outlet to explore business ownership. Kristian borrowed a lawn mower from his parents and rented his dad's truck to be able to provide fall clean-ups for customers found on Kijiji. With the money made from fall clean-ups, he printed 1,000 flyers at Staples and handed them out himself.
During the first winter season, he landed 20
snow removal clients. In the spring of 2016, Kristian changed the name to Cleanr Mow and Cleanr Snow. Operating as Cleanr Mow, he provided somewhere in the range of 60 spring clean-ups and had 12 weekly lawn mowing customers. Moving into the winter of 2016, he decided he wanted to make a serious go at things. Kristian began focusing on advertising and hired the company's first part-time employee. Throughout the winter, operations moved from his parent's garage to a storage unit, and then to a “shop” in West St. Paul, MB. In the spring of 2017, Kristian made another big leap and hired his first full-time employee. During the 2017 lawn care season, two more employees were hired as the company continued to grow rapidly.
Moving into the winter of 2017, we made another move and moved to a larger facility on Gunn Road. During the 2018 lawn care season, we grew to six full-time employees and three part-time employees and quickly outgrew our shop on Gunn Road. We spent one year there but quickly outgrew it and moved into a new shop on Don Valley Parkway. During the winter of 2018/2019, we began offering
commercial snow removal services and had over 15 employees on call at any given point. The lawn care season of 2019 was another busy one as we continued on our path of doubling in size every year and we had over ten full-time employees and several part-time employees.
When COVID struck, things were originally quite stressful for us, as they were for everyone. Our team managed to pull through and we actually experienced a great deal of growth through 2020-2022. We invested in new tools, new training, an additional shop, and some great new hires that brought tons of experience to the team.
2023 and 2024 we continued on the trend of growing and now employ 20 people full time as well as an additional 10-15 staff on call in the winter. With a fleet of 15 trucks and growing, we look forward to taking care of your property!
