We fly roof and building surveys from Buckingham, covering most of north Buckinghamshire, south Northamptonshire and the Milton Keynes area. Surveys start from £195.
A drone gets a camera over a roof in about twenty minutes, without anyone going up a ladder and without hiring a tower or scaffold to find out whether you need one. For a lot of jobs that is the whole point: you are not trying to fix the roof yet, you are trying to work out what you are dealing with.
What you get, and what you don’t
You get high resolution still images, GPS tagged, and 4K video if the job calls for it. Images are labelled by position and orientation, so you or whoever you pass them to can tell which slope and which elevation each frame shows.
We photograph the roof. We do not tell you what is wrong with it.
That is deliberate. We are drone operators, not chartered surveyors, and a photograph captioned with an opinion about a defect is worth less to you than a photograph you can hand to someone qualified to form one. Plenty of our work goes to surveyors, roofers and property managers who do the diagnosis themselves and want the access problem solved cheaply.
When a drone is the cheap option
- Steep, high or fragile roofs where access itself is the expensive part
- Checking a roof after a storm, before deciding whether anything needs doing
- Large commercial or industrial roofs, where covering the area on foot takes a day
- Chimneys, valleys, parapets and anything else you cannot see from the ground
- Pinning down where a problem is on a big site, so scaffold goes up in the right place rather than everywhere
When it isn’t
If you already know there is a problem and you already know you need scaffolding to reach it, a drone survey is a cost on top rather than a cost instead. We will say so.
The other limit is weather. Wind and heavy rain ground the aircraft, so surveys get moved. In practice that means a day or two, not a fortnight, but it is worth knowing if you are working to a deadline.
What it costs
Surveys start from £195 for a site in uncontrolled airspace with no additional permissions needed.
Larger commercial premises, multiple buildings, or sites near an airfield where we need clearance are quoted individually.
Images come back within a day or two of the flight.
Where we cover
We are based at Maids Moreton, just outside Buckingham, and most of our work is within about thirty minutes of there. That covers Buckingham, Brackley, Winslow, Towcester, Stony Stratford, Bicester, Milton Keynes and Aylesbury, along with the villages between them.
We do travel further for larger jobs, where the size of the site justifies it. Just ask.
Credentials and insurance
We hold an A2 Certificate of Competency and carry £5m public liability insurance as standard. Cover up to £10m is available on request, which some commercial sites and managing agents ask for.
We have been flying commercially since 2018, originally under a CAA Permission for Commercial Operations.
Get a quote
Tell us where the building is and what you are trying to find out, and we will come back with a price.
