# Drone Roof Inspection > A drone roof inspection across Devon and the South West. Close aerial detail on any roof, however narrow the street or steep the site, with nothing put up against the house. Homeowners and landlords who want a roof looked at without scaffolding or a ladder near the house. A drone gets in close enough for a proper look at any roof, however narrow the street or steep the plot, then a written report lands in your inbox within 48 hours. ## Services - [Drone Roof Inspection](https://drone-roof-inspection.co.uk/services/drone-roof-inspection): A roof looked at properly, close up, with nothing leaned against the gutter and nothing built up against the wall. - [Landlord Roof Inspection](https://drone-roof-inspection.co.uk/services/landlord-roof-inspection): Scheduled inspections across a portfolio or a block, with no scaffold outside a let property and no weeks of notice for a tenant. ## Key pages - [Home](https://drone-roof-inspection.co.uk/): Roof inspections flown without scaffolding or a ladder - [Services](https://drone-roof-inspection.co.uk/services): What Drone Roof Inspection does and what each job includes. - [How it works](https://drone-roof-inspection.co.uk/how-it-works): How a job runs, from the first call to what arrives afterwards. - [Areas covered](https://drone-roof-inspection.co.uk/areas): 25 towns across Devon and the South West. - [About](https://drone-roof-inspection.co.uk/about): Who runs Drone Roof Inspection and how it works. - [Contact](https://drone-roof-inspection.co.uk/contact): How to get in touch and what happens next. ## Areas covered - [Exeter, Devon](https://drone-roof-inspection.co.uk/areas/exeter): In Exeter's older quarters, narrow streets and conservation status can turn a scaffold job into a two week wait, so we fly the roof instead and report back within 48 hours. - [Topsham, Devon](https://drone-roof-inspection.co.uk/areas/topsham): Topsham's historic core is built right up to the water on lanes too narrow for a scaffold wagon, so getting a proper look at a roof here usually means flying it instead. - [Exmouth, Devon](https://drone-roof-inspection.co.uk/areas/exmouth): Exmouth's seafront blocks, hillside villas and marina apartments each make a scaffold job awkward in a different way, and a drone gets round all three without touching the building. - [Ottery St Mary, Devon](https://drone-roof-inspection.co.uk/areas/ottery-st-mary): Ottery St Mary's narrow lanes, thatched roofs and shared courtyards make ladder access awkward in more ways than one, and flying the roof avoids all of them at once. - [Sidmouth, Devon](https://drone-roof-inspection.co.uk/areas/sidmouth): Sidmouth's steep valley sides and ornate Regency townhouses leave very little flat ground for a scaffold tower, which is exactly the gap a drone survey fills. - [Totnes, Devon](https://drone-roof-inspection.co.uk/areas/totnes): Totnes's steep, jettied high street leaves nowhere safe to plant a ladder, so a drone is often the only realistic way to see the roof at all. - [Dartmouth, Devon](https://drone-roof-inspection.co.uk/areas/dartmouth): In Dartmouth, some streets are literally stairs, which rules out a scaffold wagon entirely and makes flying the roof the only practical option on much of the town. - [Kingsbridge, Devon](https://drone-roof-inspection.co.uk/areas/kingsbridge): Fore Street's steep climb from the quay leaves nowhere level for a scaffold base, and the scattered farmhouses beyond the town add their own access problems a drone does not have. - [Salcombe, Devon](https://drone-roof-inspection.co.uk/areas/salcombe): Salcombe's houses are stacked up a hillside too steep for a scaffold base, and a growing number of contemporary flat roofs and terraces raise access questions a drone simply avoids. - [Ivybridge, Devon](https://drone-roof-inspection.co.uk/areas/ivybridge): Ivybridge drops steeply from the moor edge down to the Erme, and a drone survey looks at any roof on that slope without a scaffold tower built on a sloping garden. - [Plymouth, Devon](https://drone-roof-inspection.co.uk/areas/plymouth): Plymouth's streets climb hard between the waterfront and the high suburbs, and parking a scaffold lorry, let alone building a tower, is often the real obstacle here. - [Saltash, Cornwall](https://drone-roof-inspection.co.uk/areas/saltash): Saltash drops so steeply from the town centre to the water that many waterfront cottages cannot be reached by a scaffold lorry at all, which is where a drone survey earns its keep. - [Tavistock, Devon](https://drone-roof-inspection.co.uk/areas/tavistock): Much of Tavistock sits in a conservation area of green Hurdwick stone, where fixing a scaffold tower to a listed wall means a planning conversation, which flying avoids. - [Launceston, Cornwall](https://drone-roof-inspection.co.uk/areas/launceston): Launceston sits on a hilltop behind its old town walls, where medieval streets were never laid out for a scaffold lorry, and a drone survey reaches those roofs without needing one. - [Liskeard, Cornwall](https://drone-roof-inspection.co.uk/areas/liskeard): Liskeard's older streets run down steep valleys on the town's eastern side, where narrow lanes and terraced cottages leave a scaffold crew little room to work. - [Bude, Cornwall](https://drone-roof-inspection.co.uk/areas/bude): Bude's cliff-top villas and holiday lets sit on some of the most exposed ground in the county, where a scaffold tower can become a hazard, and that is the gap a drone survey fills. - [Holsworthy, Devon](https://drone-roof-inspection.co.uk/areas/holsworthy): Around Holsworthy, roofs often sit at the end of a farm track with nowhere to build a scaffold base and heavy clay ground that turns against plant for half the year. - [Great Torrington, Devon](https://drone-roof-inspection.co.uk/areas/great-torrington): Great Torrington sits high on a bluff above the Torridge, and that hilltop position and its tight lanes are exactly the access problem a drone survey is built to solve. - [South Molton, Devon](https://drone-roof-inspection.co.uk/areas/south-molton): South Molton's Georgian square, its farms and its Exmoor-edge barn conversions share one problem for a scaffold tower: nowhere flat, dry and close enough to build one on. - [Barnstaple, Devon](https://drone-roof-inspection.co.uk/areas/barnstaple): Barnstaple's tight streets around the Pannier Market, its steep terraces and the scale of its trading estate roofs all make a person getting up there slower than flying a drone. - [Bideford, Devon](https://drone-roof-inspection.co.uk/areas/bideford): Bideford's old town climbs so steeply from the quay that a scaffold tower is a serious undertaking on some streets, which is exactly the kind of job a drone survey was built for. - [Ilfracombe, Devon](https://drone-roof-inspection.co.uk/areas/ilfracombe): Ilfracombe's tall Victorian terraces climb the hillside in such dramatic rows that reaching the roof safely from a ladder or scaffold is a serious job on its own. - [Teignmouth, Devon](https://drone-roof-inspection.co.uk/areas/teignmouth): Teignmouth's Georgian seafront terraces sit hard against the promenade with almost no room behind them for a scaffold tower, before parking and steep ground are even considered. - [Torquay, Devon](https://drone-roof-inspection.co.uk/areas/torquay): Built across seven hills, Torquay puts almost every roof on a slope or a tall Victorian roofscape that is hard to reach safely, and a drone survey solves both at once. - [Brixham, Devon](https://drone-roof-inspection.co.uk/areas/brixham): Brixham's fishermen's cottages are stacked tightly around a working harbour bowl, so a scaffold tower means closing space the port still needs, which a drone survey avoids completely. ## What is on the record - Nothing put up against the house: No scaffold tower, no ladder against the gutter, no base plate on the drive. The aircraft holds a standoff distance from the building for the whole inspection. - CAA registered: Operator ID and Flyer ID held, plus the A2 Certificate of Competency, which is what allows the closer operation near buildings and streets that makes this work in a terrace or a town centre. - 100 megapixel camera: A DJI Mavic 4 Pro with a Hasselblad camera and 6K video. The resolution is what lets the aircraft stay at a safe distance and still return detail close to what a person standing on the roof would see. - Insured with Coverdrone: Full commercial cover for the operation. Certificates go to managing agents, block committees and insurers as a matter of course, without anyone having to chase for them. ## Contact - Phone: 07411 263753 - Email: info@exeterdronesurveys.co.uk - Enquiry form: https://drone-roof-inspection.co.uk/contact - Based in Exeter, covering Devon and the South West ## Optional - [Full text version](https://drone-roof-inspection.co.uk/llms-full.txt): every service, town and question on this site as markdown. - [Sitemap](https://drone-roof-inspection.co.uk/sitemap.xml) - [Privacy](https://drone-roof-inspection.co.uk/privacy) - [Terms](https://drone-roof-inspection.co.uk/terms)