Drone roof and building inspections across West Yorkshire, East Lancashire and Rochdale

You get a fixed price before you book. It depends on the size of the building, how much of it you want covered and whether you want a report. Travel across West Yorkshire, East Lancashire and Rochdale is included, and there's nothing to add on top.

Fill in the booking form and I'll reply within two working days with the price and a date.

Edited photos and video arrive by download link within two working days of the flight, and the annotated report with them if you asked for one. A next-working-day report is available: tick the box on the booking form.

No. It's a visual condition report: photos and video of what the drone camera can see on the outside of the building, with anything I spot marked up if you add the report. It isn't a building survey, and it doesn't replace a surveyor's or a roofer's hands-on check.

Slipped, cracked or missing tiles and slates, the ridge and valleys, chimneys and flashings, blocked or damaged gutters, and the state of fascias, soffits and the tops of walls. It can't see inside the roof space or under the tiles.

Not on its own. I don't use thermal imaging, so I can't show heat loss or hidden damp. The photos can show visible damage near a leak, such as slipped tiles, cracked flashing or a blocked gutter, for a roofer to look at.

No. Nobody climbs anything and I don't need to come inside. I need a safe spot to take off from near the building. A garden, yard or drive is ideal, but a quiet road or pavement nearby works too, so you don't need a garden.

No. I can fly while you're at work or away, as long as I can get to a safe spot to take off from and you've told me how to reach the building. Many people never see me: the photos and video arrive by download link afterwards. If you'd rather be there, pick a morning or afternoon on the booking form and I'll work around you.

I only fly when it's safe to. If the weather stops the flight, I come back another day at no extra cost.

With a few days' notice. Pick the day you'd like on the booking form and say morning or afternoon. I'll confirm it when I reply, or offer the nearest day I can.

West Yorkshire, East Lancashire and Rochdale, including Hebden Bridge, Todmorden, Sowerby Bridge, Halifax, Brighouse, Elland, Huddersfield, Bradford, Keighley, Leeds, Wakefield, Burnley and Rochdale. Travel is included in that area, and a little further out is possible for a small travel charge.

Yes. Flats and blocks, commercial units, listed and heritage buildings, and homes over five bedrooms are quoted separately. Tell me about the building on the booking form and I'll come back with a price.

I point the camera at your building, not at neighbouring homes and gardens, and keep the flight as short as the job allows. If someone appears in a shot by chance, I crop them out or leave that image out of what you receive.

Yes. The photos are yours to share with an insurer, a roofer or a buyer. If you're a surveyor, adjuster or agent, the files are yours to use in your own report or claim file. Whether an insurer accepts them as evidence is up to the insurer.

It can be a useful extra. A standard home survey usually looks at the roof from the ground, while the drone shows it from above. It sits alongside the buyer's survey rather than replacing it, and the owner needs to agree to the flight.

Yes, when it's done properly and with your permission to take off from your property. I hold a CAA Operator ID and Flyer ID, fly a class-marked drone within the CAA's Open category rules, and I'm insured for commercial drone work. I check the airspace before every job and never fly over crowds.