Roof Surveys
A complete photographic record of a roof, taken from a safe standoff. Every plane, ridge, valley, gutter run and rooflight, at a resolution that lets you zoom in on a single slipped tile.
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Visual survey and inspection work flown from the air: roofs, elevations, structures and land, recorded at full resolution without scaffold, ladders or a cherry picker.
Visual survey and inspection work flown from the air: roofs, elevations, structures and land, recorded at full resolution without scaffold, ladders or a cherry picker.
For the broader picture of what this work covers and where it does and does not apply, see aerial surveys.
What it shows
- Roof and elevation condition, at close range
- Defects that cannot be seen from ground level
- The layout and extent of a site, from above
- The condition of structures too high or awkward to reach safely
- Change over time, where we have flown the same site before
- A dated record for a file, a claim or a submission
Save time and money with drone inspections — most surveys are a single short visit.
Get in touchA safer, faster way to look at a building
Traditional access is the expensive part of any inspection. Scaffold has to be designed, erected, inspected and dismantled. A MEWP needs a level standing, a trained operator and often a road closure. Rope access needs a team and a rescue plan. All of that happens before anyone has looked at anything.
Flying removes it. There is nothing to erect, nothing to hire and nobody at height, so a job that would have been a week of arrangements becomes a single short visit — usually without stopping whatever else is happening on site.
It is also more complete. A person on a roof inspects the part they can safely stand on and reach. A planned flight covers all of it, at a consistent distance, in a consistent order, which is why two visits six months apart actually compare with one another.
What you get
High-resolution imagery of every elevation and roof plane
Defect photography indexed so it can be found again on site
Files supplied in the formats your team already works in
Save Time and Money With Drone Inspections
A traditional inspection spends most of its budget before anyone has looked at anything. Scaffold has to be designed, erected, inspected and dismantled. A cherry picker needs a level standing, a trained operator and sometimes a road closure. None of that is looking at the building; it is getting into position to look at the building.
Flying removes the whole of that cost. There is nothing to erect and nobody at height, so what would have been a week of arrangements is a single short visit — usually with your people still working while we fly.
Clients most often ask us to cover:
- Roofs, elevations and chimneys
- Parapets, gutters and high-level detail
- Masts, towers and telecoms structures
- Bridges, culverts and highway structures
- Silos, tanks and industrial plant
- Solar arrays and rooftop equipment
- Land, boundaries and whole sites
Safer Than Putting Anyone On The Roof
The safest work at height is the work nobody has to do. Every ladder, tower and rope job carries risk that has to be assessed, controlled and supervised, and the paperwork alone often outweighs the inspection.
We stay on the ground. There is no work at height, no access equipment and no road closure, which usually means no permit, no traffic management and nothing to hire.
It is also more thorough than the traditional method. A person on a roof inspects the part they can safely stand on and reach; a planned flight covers all of it, at a consistent distance, in a consistent order — which is why two visits six months apart genuinely compare.
What we do under Drone Services
Drone Inspections
Close visual inspection of a structure that is awkward, expensive or unsafe to reach. We fly it, record it, and give you the imagery to make a decision from.
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Window Survey
Every window and frame on a building, photographed from directly in front of it rather than from the ground at an angle. Useful for replacement schedules, condition reports and access-free counts.
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Chimney Surveys
A chimney stack photographed from level with it, not squinted at from the ground. Pots, flaunching, brickwork, flashings and the state of the mortar, all in one visit.
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Church Roof Surveys
Church roofs are high, complicated and expensive to scaffold. We photograph the whole roof, the tower, the parapets and the leadwork without a single ladder going up.
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Aerial Mapping
A georeferenced overhead image of a whole site, flown to a repeatable pattern so a later visit lines up with the first. Supplied ready to sit beneath your own drawing.
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Bridge Inspection
The soffit, the abutments, the parapets and the deck edge, recorded close up without closing a lane or hiring an under-bridge unit.
View serviceWho asks for it
- Surveyors and building consultants
- Property owners and managing agents
- Contractors pricing work without a site visit
What clients get from working with us
Timescales
Most sites are surveyed within two working days of instruction, with reports sent 24 hours after surveys.
Deliverables
Orthomosaics, 3D models, point clouds, elevation sets and edited media, supplied in the formats your team already works in.
Coverage
Operating throughout the East and West Midlands, Yorkshire and East Anglia.
Compliance
Fully authorised and insured, with a site-specific risk assessment issued before every attendance.
Continuity
One point of contact from enquiry to delivery. Data is processed in-house and is never passed to a third-party bureau.
Certainty
A fixed written quotation against an agreed deliverable. No day rates and no variation after the event.
Questions
What is the advantage over a traditional inspection?
Cost, speed and completeness. No access equipment, no working at height, an hour on site instead of days, and a record of the whole structure rather than the parts a person could safely reach.
Do you provide a report?
We provide the evidence — full-resolution, indexed, dated imagery. Written professional assessment is a surveyor's or engineer's work, and the imagery is prepared so they can work from it.
Is it legal to fly over my property?
Yes, within the rules. We hold a CAA Operational Authorisation and every flight is planned against the airspace, the surroundings and the people on and around the site before we attend. If a site needs a permission we cannot get, we tell you at enquiry rather than on the day.
What happens if the weather is wrong on the day?
We move it. Wind and rain make for unsafe flying and soft, unusable pictures, and a survey you cannot rely on is worse than no survey. We watch the forecast and give you as much notice as we can.
Do I need to be there?
No. We need safe access to somewhere to take off and land, and to know about anything on site we should avoid. You are welcome to be there if you would rather point things out in person.
Tell us about the site and we will take it from there
A site postcode and a sentence about what you need is enough to get started.
Get in touch
Provide a site postcode or boundary and a short description of the required output. We will confirm the deliverables, level of detail.
- A site postcode is sufficient to price most instructions
- Written quotation, in most cases the same working day
- Deliverables and formats agreed at instruction
info@midlandsaerialsurveys.co.uk
Stamford, Lincolnshire