New Build Drone Survey
Aerial Evidence for Snagging Companies
Roof and upper elevation imagery supplied for a snagging company's own client report, priced and booked to fit around your reporting deadline.
A professional snagging inspection covers what can be reached and reasonably assessed from the ground and from inside the property. The roof, the ridge line and anything above a first floor window head is usually noted as not accessible, which leaves a gap in an otherwise thorough report.
This service fills that gap without changing how you work. The flight is booked around your own inspection date or your client's deadline, the imagery is supplied at full resolution with the elevations clearly labelled, and it is licensed for inclusion in your own report to your own client under your own branding.
It is priced the same way every job on this site is: a fixed figure agreed before the visit, based on the address and the size of the roof, so it can be quoted into your own fee structure without surprises.
What is included
- Full roof and upper elevation coverage, matched to your inspection date
- Images supplied labelled by elevation, ready to drop into your own report
- Full resolution originals, licensed for use in your client-facing report
- A short written summary of what was found, in addition to the images
- Repeat-address scheduling for firms working the same estate on different plots
- Insurance certificate and operator registration supplied for your file
Why some snagging firms fly it themselves and some do not
Running an in-house drone operation means a CAA operator ID, current certification, insurance, kit maintenance and a pilot's time that could otherwise be spent on the ground inspection itself. For a firm doing a handful of jobs a month across a wide area, that overhead rarely pencils out against booking the flight in as needed.
This service exists for exactly that gap: the aerial half of the job, supplied on your schedule, without the firm having to build and maintain an aviation operation to offer it.
Volume work across one estate
Where several plots on the same development need covering, whether for one client's multi-unit purchase or several separate instructions on the same road, travel and setup are shared across the visit rather than charged per address from scratch. Send the list of addresses and the dates each report is due, and a realistic schedule comes back.
On the day
How a for snagging companies runs
- Step 1
Send the brief
The address, your inspection or reporting date, and anything you specifically want covered. A quote comes back against that brief rather than a generic price list.
- Step 2
Book to your deadline
The flight is scheduled to land before your reporting date, with the weather rules the same as any other job: a flight that will not produce usable imagery gets moved rather than flown.
- Step 3
The flight
Full roof and upper elevation coverage, labelled by elevation as it is captured so the handover matches how your own report is structured.
- Step 4
Handover
Labelled images and a short written summary delivered ahead of your reporting date, in whatever format is easiest to drop into your own document.
Behind the work
Kit, cover and qualifications
CAA registered
Operator ID and Flyer ID held, plus the A2 Certificate of Competency. The paperwork goes over with the quote, ready for a site manager's file if one is needed before access is agreed.
100 megapixel camera
A DJI Mavic 4 Pro with a Hasselblad camera and 6K video. The resolution is what lets a single frame be cropped into a mortar joint on a ridge tile or a hairline crack in fresh render without the image falling apart.
Radiometric thermal
A DJI Mavic 2 Enterprise Advanced carrying a 640 by 512 thermal camera. Used where a flat roof section may be holding water under the membrane, which shows as a temperature difference well before it shows as a stain on a ceiling below.
Insured with Coverdrone
Full commercial cover for the operation. A certificate goes to a site manager, a warranty provider or a snagging company as a matter of course, without anyone having to chase for it.
For snagging companies
Aerial Evidence for Snagging Companies questions
- Can the imagery carry our branding instead of yours?
- The photographs are supplied unbranded and licensed for use in your own client report. Nothing on the images identifies this business unless you choose to credit it.
- How quickly can you turn a job around against our deadline?
- Tell us the reporting date when you send the brief and the flight gets scheduled to land ahead of it, weather permitting. Most jobs are flown within a few days of the request.
- Do you need access arranged, or do you sort that yourselves?
- For your own client jobs, access to the plot is usually arranged through you or your client. Airspace and take off point are checked independently before the booking is confirmed either way.
Where
Aerial Evidence for Snagging Companies across the South West
How the evidence works
Book a snagging survey with New Build Drone Survey
Tell us the address and what you need looking at. Sam Hembury will come back with a fixed price and the next available slot.