Commercial roof surveys in Blackpool
Roofcheck provides commercial and industrial roof surveys across Blackpool and Lancashire, for the managers of its hospital, colleges, seafront venues, hotels, shops and business parks who want hard evidence of a roof’s condition before they spend on it. Moisture mapping, thermography, electronic leak detection, drone and RAAC surveys reach every part of the FY postcode area, from Fleetwood to Lytham St Annes.
The roofs we survey here
Blackpool’s commercial roofs face the Irish Sea: the Tower and the Winter Gardens behind the promenade, hotels and shops in the town centre, Blackpool Victoria Hospital on Whinney Heys Road, and the industrial and office units of the airport’s enterprise zone on the south side of town.
Salt-laden wind off the sea works at every lap, fixing and flashing along the front, and parapet gutters and outlets fill with windblown debris. Once one blocks, water ponds on the roof and finds its way down into the insulation.
Blackpool Victoria Hospital and its cardiac centre
Blackpool Victoria Hospital, known locally as the Vic, is the principal hospital for Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre, and its Lancashire Cardiac Centre treats heart patients from Lancashire and South Cumbria; the trust’s Clifton Hospital in St Annes has rehabilitation wards. A thermal survey picks out wet insulation over a ward block from the roof, and electronic leak detection traces each breach without lifting the membrane.
Blackpool and The Fylde College and the sixth form
Blackpool and The Fylde College teaches school leavers at its Bispham Campus, degree students at its University Centre and offshore and maritime courses at its Fleetwood Nautical Campus, and its Lancashire Energy HQ, a £9.8m training centre, stands on the airport’s enterprise zone. Blackpool Sixth Form College teaches in the town too. Survey visits to teaching blocks are planned with each estates office, clear of classes and exams.
RAAC in schools and council buildings
The Department for Education’s last published list of settings with confirmed RAAC included one primary school in Blackpool. Council offices, clinics, schools and community halls with flat concrete roofs from the mid-1950s to the mid-1990s are the buildings to check, and a RAAC survey gives the answer for each roof.
The Tower, the Winter Gardens and the Houndshill
The Blackpool Tower opened in 1894 and the Winter Gardens, whose Empress Ballroom holds 3,250 and whose Opera House is one of the largest theatres in Europe, in 1878; the Houndshill, in its own words Blackpool’s premier shopping centre, has over 65 retailers. Behind their parapets, halls and malls like these hide long valley gutters and flat sections, and moisture mapping shows where water has got into them.
Blackpool Airport Enterprise Zone
Blackpool Airport Enterprise Zone offers industrial and office units to buy or to let around Blackpool Airport, which Blackpool Council now owns, with a masterplan to create 20 hectares of new development land. Industrial roofs on a site like this are best read from a drone, with thermography to show which bays have taken on water.
Solar on seafront and business park roofs
A Blackpool roof facing the sea takes more weather than most, so before an array goes on, a condition survey and moisture mapping confirm that the membrane and the deck underneath can carry it.
How a roof survey works
Request a quote
Tell us about the building, the roof and what you need to find out.
The right survey
We recommend the methods that suit the roof and send a written quote.
Survey on site
A qualified surveyor carries out the survey, planned around your site, tenants and access.
Report on your roof plan
Every finding is pinned to a plan of your roof, online in your dashboard and as a PDF.
Manage your roof surveys online
From a single building in Blackpool to an estate across Lancashire, approve quotes, follow every survey and open reports in one place, then share them by link so everyone works from the same information.
Areas we cover
- Town centre FY1
- Claremont FY1, FY2, FY3
- Warbreck FY1, FY2
- Bispham FY2, FY5
- Norbreck FY2, FY5
- Anchorsholme FY5
- Layton FY3
- Brunswick FY1, FY3
- Tyldesley FY1, FY3, FY4
- Marton FY3, FY4
- Bloomfield FY1, FY4
- Waterloo FY1, FY4
- Victoria FY1, FY4
- Stanley FY4
- Hawes Side FY4
- Highfield FY4
- Squires Gate FY4
- Cleveleys FY5
- Thornton FY5
- Poulton-le-Fylde FY6
- Fleetwood FY7
- Lytham St Annes FY8
Questions about roof surveys
Can you survey a hospital, school or campus without disrupting it?
Yes. Surveys are carried out from the roof, and visits are planned around clinical areas, term dates and building access. Any method that needs access inside the building, such as some RAAC inspections, is agreed with you beforehand.
Can you check a Blackpool school or public building for RAAC?
Yes. A RAAC survey confirms whether panels are present, records cracking, deflection and water staining, and sets out a next step for each area. It is worth considering for any flat-roofed building from the mid-1950s to the mid-1990s.
Do you survey hotel and leisure building roofs in Blackpool?
Yes. Flat roofs behind seafront parapets are surveyed with thermography and electronic leak detection, and visits are arranged around guests, shows and deliveries.
Do you offer pre-solar roof surveys?
Yes. Before panels go on, a condition survey and moisture mapping show whether the roof needs work first. Once the panels are up, anything the roof needs means lifting them first, and the bill for that dwarfs the cost of a survey.
Do you survey industrial and office units in Blackpool, such as those on the enterprise zone?
Yes. Drone surveys and thermography cover industrial units of any size, with core samples to confirm the build-up wherever the readings call for one.
What roof systems do you survey?
All the main systems on UK commercial roofs: single ply membranes from manufacturers such as Bauder, IKO, Fatra, Renolit and Sika Sarnafil, built-up felt, liquid applied coatings, mastic asphalt, profiled metal and standing seam.
Can you survey several buildings across Blackpool and beyond?
Yes. For estates and portfolios, every building can be surveyed to the same scope, with reports in the same format so they can be compared side by side.
Do you survey college and school roofs in Blackpool?
Yes. Teaching blocks are surveyed with moisture mapping and thermography, and each visit is booked with the estates staff around classes and exams.
Do you work on tenanted buildings?
Yes. One report can serve the landlord, the tenant, the contractor and the insurer, so everyone works from the same findings.
How much does a roof survey in Blackpool cost?
Cost depends on the roof area, the roof system and the methods needed. Call 0113 868 0097 or start a quote online with the approximate roof area and what you need to find out, and you’ll receive a written quote.
Do you cover the towns around Blackpool?
Yes. Surveys cover the whole FY postcode area, from the promenade to Fleetwood, Cleveleys, Thornton, Poulton-le-Fylde and Lytham St Annes.
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