Purpose · Drone Roof Inspection
Drone Roof Inspection for handover and snagging
We photograph handover snag record briefs for roof inspection the way we would want ours photographed: quickly, respectfully, well. Main contractors and clients need a completion-quality record at handover — the shoot documents finish, defects and outstanding items for the O&M pack.
Context
Handover snagging is an O&M discipline.
Concretely, annotated photo report identifying defects, slipped slates and flashing issues. The pack fits the O&M — organised by zone, not by convenience.
Geography
Where this usually lands
Handover visits in Chester sit inside the standard roof inspection area.
- Council
- Cheshire West and Chester
- County
- Cheshire
- Postcodes
- CH1, CH2, CH3, CH4
- Nearest roads
- M53, M56
- Manchester — 5 mi via M60
- Wirral — 14 mi via M53
Brief
How the handover brief runs.
low-altitude grid flights at 20–40m AGL with macro-zoom stills. The pack fits the O&M — organised by zone, not by convenience.
Angles
Three ways this brief lands
01
Coverage tuned to the handover snag rather than a generic roof inspection template.
02
post-storm damage triage
03
solar-install feasibility scoping
Method
How this gets shot
low-altitude grid flights at 20–40m AGL with macro-zoom stills. The pack fits the O&M — organised by zone, not by convenience.
Constraints
What shapes the shoot
- •Coverage is exhaustive — every room, ceiling, service point.
- •Any snag is captured close with a scale reference and location context.
- •Deliverables are organised by drawing zone, not room label.
Captured
What comes back
- Room-by-room wides
- Ceiling and service-point close-ups
- Snag frames with scale
- External elevations
- Drone roof pass
FAQs
Questions we hear
How is a snag captured?
Wide, medium and close with a physical scale reference in-frame.
Can the pack be indexed to drawing zones?
Yes — file naming and folder structure follow the client's drawing zoning.
Can the report be used for an insurance claim?
Yes — the Chester report is supplied as a date-stamped PDF accepted by major UK insurers.
What if the weather changes on the day?
Flights inside Chester are rescheduled at no charge if sustained wind exceeds 24 mph or rain is forecast.
Is a drone roof inspection in Chester cheaper than scaffolding?
For a typical Chester roof, drone inspection comes in well under the cost of even a single day's tower scaffold.
Proof
Where this has worked
Handover packs on this basis have gone into O&M manuals for schemes across the M62 corridor.
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Next step
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Every handover snag shoot for roof inspection indexes files by drawing zone.
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