No access equipment
No scaffolding, no ladders, no one working at height — the roof is recorded entirely from the air.
ZERO WORKING-AT-HEIGHT RISK
Twenty minutes on site · no scaffold · nobody on the roof
Roof inspections, without the scaffolding.
Every roof plane covered from the air in one flight, and a measurable 3D model of the roof alongside it — no ladders, no scaffold hire, no one standing on the roof. We capture and measure it; your roofer or surveyor reads it.
The cost of getting up there
Scaffolding goes up before anyone can inspect. Then it comes down again.
You pay for the access whether the roof turns out to need work or not, and you wait for it twice — once to go up, once to come down. Typical UK costs for 2026, excluding VAT. Ranges, not quotes.
Scaffold or powered access
- Scaffold, semi-detached house£650–1,100
- Scaffold, full house wrap£1,200–2,800
- Powered access with operator£375–595 a day
- Pavement permit, where needed£40–150
- Typical hire period2–4 weeks
- Someone working at heightYes
A Premium roof inspection
- Access equipment neededNone
- Time on site15–20 minutes
- Record back, a housenext working day
- Record back, large commercialwithin three days
- Scope fixed before we flyYes
- Someone working at heightNo
What you get that a folder of drone photos is not
Two of these matter to whoever owns the building. The third is for whoever prices the work — the roofer, the surveyor or the insurer. If that is you, it is the one to read.
Owners and managers
Every photograph carries its scale
The aircraft measures the distance to the roof on every single frame, so a measurement taken off a photograph means something. A 40 mm gap measures as a 40 mm gap.
Owners and managers
Every photograph has a place
Each frame is tied to a position on the building, so “the third hopper along the north side” is a location anyone can find again — not a description to argue about.
Roofers, surveyors and insurers
Pricing the work? Write into it
Premium Plus is an editable record for roofing contractors, building surveyors and insurers. Your assessment goes against each photograph, in your own words, and comes back as one document. You report against whatever standard your scheme requires — the evidence is ours, the judgement and the standard are yours.
It opens on an ordinary office machine, and so does every copy you pass on. No survey software, no portal account, nothing for your client or their insurer to install before they can read what you wrote.
See it before you buy it. Twenty minutes, in person or on a call — we open a real record in the browser, show you what it produces, and show you how every photograph carries the scale it was taken at and a position on the building. You judge the method, then decide whether it is worth paying for.
Book a demonstrationWhy aerial inspection
Safer, faster, fully covered.
A drone reaches every angle a ladder can't, without anyone leaving the ground.
Every plane covered
Multiple passes and angles capture valleys, ridges and awkward junctions a ground-level look would miss.
RGB STILLS · MULTIPLE ANGLES
Fast turnaround
Typically a 15–20 minute flight, with the record back the next working day on a house and within three on a large commercial roof — far quicker than booking scaffold access.
SAME-VISIT CAPTURE
What you receive
A full picture of the roof.
Built for homeowners and landlords, letting and estate agents, managing agents and surveyors, and roofing or building contractors.
Evidence anyone can open. No ladder, no scaffold.
Inspections are delivered through our own client portal, so the roof can be examined properly by whoever needs to see it — owner, tenant, insurer or contractor — without anyone going up there and without any software to install.
A quote built from photographed evidence is a quote that can be challenged on facts rather than opinion.
- Every plane photographed close-range Including the elevations and valleys you cannot see from ground level.
- Every plane indexed and located Numbered plane by plane, so you and your roofer are talking about the same slope.
- A roof you can measure Plane areas, pitch, ridge and verge lengths taken off the model — so a roofer can estimate materials without going up.
- Share it with a link Landlord, tenant, insurer or roofer — nothing for them to buy or install.
- A dated record of the roof Useful for claims, dilapidations and pre-purchase questions later on.
Where our work stops. We capture and measure the roof; we do not diagnose it. Telling you whether a tile has failed, whether flashing needs replacing or what a repair should cost is a roofing judgement, and it belongs with your roofer, your building surveyor or your insurer — who can now make it from close-range imagery and a measurable model instead of from a scaffold visit or a guess. If you would rather we were the ones telling you what is wrong with your roof, we are not the right people, and we will say so before you book.
Included as standard
High-Resolution Stills
EVERY ROOF PLANE · RAW + JPEG
Indexed Plane Map
EVERY SLOPE NUMBERED · RIDGE · VALLEY · ELEVATION
Photogrammetric Roof Model
OPTIONAL · LARGER/COMPLEX ROOFS →
How it runs
Booking to report.
Most residential inspections are booked, flown and reported within a week.
01
Booking & site check
We confirm the property, roof type, and any access or airspace considerations for the area.
02
Flight plan
A short flight plan is set for the property and its immediate surroundings, checked against local airspace.
03
Capture
Every roof plane photographed from multiple angles, typically a 15–20 minute flight.
04
Report & delivery
The full set of high-resolution stills and the measurable 3D model, delivered through our portal with every plane numbered.
What you get
Two levels of record.
One scope covering the flight, the imagery and the record — not an hourly rate with extras bolted on. Premium Plus adds the version your own surveyor writes into.
Premium
Evidence to price a repair from, without scaffold or a ladder.
- Every roof plane photographed close-range, including valleys, ridges and junctions
- A measurable 3D model of the roof, with every plane numbered so a roofer quotes from evidence rather than a guess
- Shareable with an insurer, tenant, managing agent or roofer — nothing for them to install
- No scaffold hire, no access equipment, nobody working at height
- A dated record of the roof, useful later for claims and dilapidations
CLOSE-RANGE CAPTURE · MEASURABLE MODEL · RGB STILLS
Premium Plus
For contractors pricing repairs and surveyors writing dilapidations. Everything in Premium, in a form they write into themselves.
- An editable record where every photograph carries the scale it was taken at and a position on the building
- Your roofer or building surveyor enters their assessment against each photograph, in their own words
- Send it back and we reissue the finished record as one document, under one cover
- Nothing for them to buy, no portal to log into, no subscription
- Anything worth a closer look is listed first, with the reason it was flagged
- Built for the person holding the qualification — you report against whatever standard your scheme requires, from evidence instead of a scaffold visit
EDITABLE RECORD · THEIR ASSESSMENT · REISSUED UNDER ONE COVER
What moves it
Larger or more complex roofs, multiple buildings on one site, and anywhere the airspace needs additional permission. Terraces and estates are quoted per property with a reduction for several in one visit.
- Scaffold for a comparable inspection routinely runs to several hundred pounds before anyone looks at the roof
- One scope covering the flight, the imagery and the measurable model, with nothing bolted on afterwards
- Island properties can be flown at short notice; mainland work is quoted with the crossing arranged
Get in touch
Need a roof inspected?
Tell us the property and roof type — we'll check availability and airspace, and confirm the price. You get a fixed figure before we fly, and it does not move.
Scaffold alone would cost more than the inspection, and it has to come down again afterwards.