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UK· nationwide
Aerial roof surveys, thermal drone surveys, construction progress flights, insurance evidence packs and 3D property models — for property, construction and insurance teams across the UK.
Every survey is quoted as a fixed price before the flight. No day rates, no scope creep, no surprises after the visit.
Every brief is reviewed by a qualified pilot — checked for airspace, access and weather before we reply. No automated quote engine, no call centre.
Cover, site summary, annotated frames, thermal pairs where required, ranked priorities and a clear scope of works.
CAA Operational Authorisation, licensed pilots and £5M public liability on every flight. Structured risk checks on every brief — airspace, access, weather and permissions reviewed before we commit.
Aerial roof survey covering every plane, elevation, gutter line and access point. Zoom imagery isolates damage; annotated frames in a priority report.
Thermal drone survey for heat-loss, moisture risk and electrical anomaly. Visible and thermal payload paired on the same flight.
Insurance evidence pack for storm damage, impact and incident response. Annotated, dated and loss-adjuster ready.
Drone roof inspection covering every plane, elevation, gutter line and access point. Zoom imagery where required, with repeatable capture routes so the next inspection lines up with this one — frame for frame. Equally at home on residential, commercial and listed property.
Thermal drone survey using a radiometric thermal payload paired with a visible camera on the same flight. The two streams sit side-by-side in the report so a damp patch, a missing tile or a failing solar string reads at a glance.
Drone roof inspection. Roof plane, elevations, gutter line and access — annotated frames with zoom imagery where required.
Thermal drone survey. Heat-loss, moisture and electrical anomaly. Visible and thermal payload paired on the same flight.
Construction progress drone survey. Repeatable capture routes, before / after pairs, monthly summary report.
Insurance evidence pack for storm, impact and incident response. Annotated, dated and loss-adjuster ready.
Solar panel thermal inspection. Module-indexed visible and thermal anomaly scan for residential and commercial PV.
Venue promotional flythrough. Cinematic aerial film of a venue, site or estate, edited and graded for marketing use.
3D property model. Orbital capture for a measurable 3D model of a building, roof or site — viewable in any browser.
White-label drone evidence for roofing firms. Per-job pricing or monthly bundle. Priority slot, your branding.
Send the site, the timing and what you need to find out. We log the brief and start the airspace and access review.
Airspace, access, weather and any flight permissions required. We come back with a fixed price, scope and flight window.
Pilot and spotter on site, flying pre-planned, repeatable capture routes. A2 CofC and GVC qualified, £5M insured.
Visible, zoom imagery and thermal payload where appropriate, captured on a single site visit and paired in the report.
A six-page evidence PDF: cover, site summary, annotated frames, thermal pairs where required, ranked priorities and a scope of works.
A redacted version of the standard six-page PDF — cover, summary, annotated frames, thermal pairs, priorities and scope. Sent over by email on request.
Annotated visible and thermal frames from completed flights will land here as soon as we've finished a small set of jobs we can publish. We won't backfill this with stock photography.
High-resolution and radiometric thermal frames captured from the air — every plane, elevation, gutter line and access point. Annotated, dated and ready for use in roofer scopes, insurance claims and contractor briefs.
Some issues — confined-space, internal moisture mapping, structural calculations or destructive testing — need an inspection by a roofer, surveyor or structural engineer. The evidence pack flags where that's worth doing, with priority.
Thermal imagery identifies temperature anomalies that often correlate with heat-loss, moisture ingress or electrical faults. We mark and rank these — but a final root-cause diagnosis belongs to a qualified specialist on site.
The evidence pack gives contractors, loss adjusters, facilities managers and property owners a shared, dated record of site condition — so the next decision is made on evidence, not guesswork.
The Mavic 4 Pro ships with a tri-camera Hasselblad rig and a rotating gimbal. We took one through a roof-recon mission and compared frames against our Mavic 3 baseline.
The CAA's updated guidance brings the Specific Category into sharper focus, formalises operator competency, and re-frames how Operational Authorisations are written.
A Solihull homeowner saw something off about her front roof after a storm. A 25-minute Recon mission turned a hunch into evidence the insurer accepted on the first pass.
Every survey is quoted at a fixed price per site, sent before any visit. Cost depends on roof area, complexity, access and whether thermal is paired with visible imagery. Most residential aerial roof surveys fall inside a single delivery window; commercial and multi-roof sites are quoted on scope. Send the postcode and what you need to find out — a fixed quote comes back the same day.
No. The whole point of a drone roof survey is to gather visual and thermal evidence from the air — no scaffolding, no cherry picker, no working at height. That means no scaffold hire bill, no road closure, no disruption to occupants and a faster turnaround from brief to evidence pack.
A six-section PDF: mission cover, executive summary, annotated visible frames, thermal pairs where required, a ranked priorities list and a clear scope of works. Plus a single archive link for every original frame at full resolution, so roofers, insurers and surveyors can re-open any annotation against the source image.
Yes. The Claim Recon pack is built for storm, impact and incident response — annotated, dated and loss-adjuster ready, captured under CAA-approved operations with £5M public liability cover. The dated frames and flight log provide an evidence trail that supports the claim without putting anyone on the roof.
Radiometric thermal imagery surfaces temperature anomalies that often correlate with heat-loss through insulation gaps, trapped moisture under flat-roof membranes, failing solar strings on PV arrays and overheating electrical components. We mark the anomalies and rank them — a specialist diagnosis on site confirms the cause.
Recon is Midlands based and flies most of England and Wales as standard — the majority of sites are reachable inside a single working day. Scotland, Northern Ireland and the further islands are available on request, with notice for an overnight stay where needed.
Yes — these are the teams the evidence pack is built for. Roofers use it to scope works without a survey day on the ladder; landlords and managing agents use it for periodic condition records; insurance and facilities teams use it as a dated reference at claim or handover. Same flight, same PDF, different decision.
No — as the client you need nothing. Recon holds CAA Operational Authorisation, A2 CofC and GVC, and handles every airspace check, permission and risk assessment for your site before the flight. You just tell us the postcode and what you need to find out.
Most sites are a single visit. A typical roof or thermal survey is captured in around 30–60 minutes on site, weather permitting, with the annotated evidence pack following promptly afterwards.
For condition and damage assessment, yes. High-resolution zoom imagery captures every plane, ridge, valley and flashing from angles a person on a ladder can't safely reach, and thermal reveals what the eye can't see. A physical inspection is only needed to confirm a specific repair once the evidence has pinpointed it.
No call centre, no automated quote, no junior pilots on your roof. Every brief is reviewed by a qualified pilot for airspace, access, weather and any flight permissions required, before we commit to a date.