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On Dayanand Colony’s lift-served builder floors, every floor owner keeps a 1000L plastic tank plus a common tank — five or six units crowding one roof. KaamGenie cleans the whole roof in one plastic-safe visit. From ₹699.
Dayanand Colony is the quiet residential colony between Lajpat Nagar 4 and East of Kailash, where plotted homes have been rebuilt into 3-4 storey builder floors with lifts, popular with joint families and long-term tenants. The standard water setup is generous but crowded: one 1000L plastic tank per floor owner plus a common tank, so a single roof can carry five or six translucent tanks side by side. Each one takes the same sun, grows the same algae film and layers the same silt — but each belongs to a different family, so they get cleaned separately or not at all.
KaamGenie’s approach in Dayanand Colony is the whole-roof visit — every plastic tank drained in sequence, wet-vacuumed, soft jet-washed at plastic-safe pressure, hand-scrubbed with soft pads, disinfected food-grade, and photographed individually so each floor sees its own tank’s result. It is faster, cheaper per tank and nobody’s tank is left as the dirty one. For sumps or other tank types, see our full water tank cleaning in Dayanand Colony page.
Five or six tanks on one roof age together: the same timed DJB supply cycles them daily, the same sun through their translucent walls films them green through the warm months, the same rooftop dust settles through their lids. When one family cleans its tank and the neighbours do not, the shared plumbing manifold and the common tank quietly reconnect the clean tank to the dirty system — and the crowding itself means a crew working one tank is manoeuvring around five others anyway.
The economics point the same way. A whole-roof visit spreads the crew’s setup across all tanks, so the per-tank rate drops and each family pays less than a solo booking would cost — a straightforward proposition for the joint families and settled owners this colony is known for. Most Dayanand Colony buildings that try it once move to a standing six-monthly roof date, usually coordinated by one floor and split evenly on the building group.
No travel charge anywhere in Dayanand Colony. The final price is confirmed on the call before we come — it depends only on tank size and access.
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We reach every pocket of Dayanand Colony — and there’s no travel charge to any of them:
“Can each floor pay separately for its own tank?” Yes. We do the whole roof in one visit but bill it however the building prefers — one combined bill split on the group, or per-floor amounts for each family’s tank plus an equal share of the common tank. Each floor gets its own tank’s before-after photos either way.
“What does a whole-roof visit cost for five tanks?” Standard 1000L tanks are ₹899 each and smaller units up to 500 litres are ₹699, with a combined rate for four or more tanks in one visit that brings the per-tank figure down. For a typical five-tank Dayanand Colony roof, each family ends up paying noticeably less than a solo booking.
“Will the building be without water during the clean?” Only briefly, floor by floor. We sequence the tanks so at most one family’s tank is empty at a time, and we time the work between the DJB supply windows so every tank refills the same day. The common tank is done last, after the floor tanks are back in service.
“Who usually coordinates the visit?” One floor owner or the building’s informal group — Dayanand Colony’s buildings are small enough that a message on the building group settles the date. We just need one contact for roof access and lift use on the day. Call before 10 AM on 95603 66362 and a small roof can often be done the same day.
“Our tanks are different ages — does that change the cleaning?” Only in care, not in price. Older tanks with UV-chalked, brittle walls get a gentler jet setting and extra attention to hairline cracks, which we photograph and report. Newer tanks take the standard plastic-safe wash. Every tank on the roof, whatever its age, is finished with soft pads and food-grade disinfectant.
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All pockets and lanes of Dayanand Colony covered. If your specific block or society isn’t named in the sub-areas above, just call — we almost certainly cover it.
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