Commercial roof surveys in Bolton
Roofcheck provides commercial and industrial roof surveys across Bolton and Greater Manchester, for the estates teams, landlords and facilities managers behind its hospital, campuses, retail parks and distribution sheds who need solid evidence of a roof’s condition. Moisture mapping, thermography, electronic leak detection, drone and RAAC surveys reach every part of the BL postcode area, from Horwich to Bury.
The roofs we survey here
Bolton’s commercial roofs range from red-brick mills and works around the town centre to the hospital at Farnworth, the campus on Deane Road, the retail park at Middlebrook and the distribution sheds of Logistics North beside the M61.
Wet weather off the West Pennine Moors finds the weak points of an old mill roof first: its valley gutters, its rooflights and the flat sections patched over the decades. On newer sheds the weak points are laps, fixings and the outlets that silt up.
Royal Bolton Hospital in Farnworth
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust runs Royal Bolton Hospital in Farnworth, a site of more than 80 departments whose services include maternity and a specialist neonatal unit. On a hospital estate like this, moisture mapping and electronic leak detection show where water is getting in without disturbing the wards beneath.
Deane Road’s university and college
The University of Greater Manchester, the former University of Bolton, has its campus on Deane Road, where Bolton College has its main site and a new £5 million Future Engineering & Digital Technologies Centre; The Sixth Form Bolton, the town’s only specialist sixth form, teaches on a town centre campus. Survey visits to teaching and workshop blocks are booked with the estates team around lectures and practical sessions.
RAAC in schools
Six Bolton schools, two secondary and four primary, were on the Department for Education’s last published list of settings with confirmed RAAC. Other flat-roofed public buildings of the same era, from libraries to health centres, can hide the same planks, and only a RAAC survey shows whether a particular roof does.
Middlebrook and Bolton Market
Middlebrook, at Horwich, calls itself the UK’s biggest and best retail and leisure park, and Bolton Market stands on Ashburner Street in the town centre. Big single-storey units and market halls share the same weak points around outlets and rooflights, and thermography picks out the wet areas around them.
Logistics North beside the M61
Logistics North, built by Harworth on the former Cutacre surface mine beside junction 4 of the M61, has delivered over 3 million sq ft of commercial space, with Aldi, Amazon, Lidl and Whistl among its occupiers and 5,500 people employed on site. Distribution sheds this size are surveyed by drone and thermography, and core samples then confirm what lies under any wet areas.
Solar on distribution and retail roofs
On a Bolton distribution shed or retail unit, a condition survey and moisture mapping come before the solar array, so nobody has to lift the panels later to repair the roof beneath them.
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 Bolton to an estate across Greater Manchester, 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 BL1, BL2, BL3
- Astley Bridge BL1, BL7
- Halliwell BL1
- Smithills BL1, BL6
- Heaton BL1, BL3
- Lostock and Chew Moor BL6
- Tonge with the Haulgh BL2
- Breightmet BL2
- Bradshaw BL2, BL7
- Bromley Cross BL7
- Great Lever BL3
- Rumworth BL3
- Hulton BL3, BL5
- Little Lever and Darcy Lever BL2, BL3
- Farnworth BL4
- Kearsley BL4
- Westhoughton BL5
- Horwich BL6
- Blackrod BL6
- Bury BL8, BL9
- Ramsbottom BL0
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 Bolton 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 hospital roofs in Bolton?
Yes. Hospital roofs carry plant, flues and rooflights, so the survey reads around them from above and leaves the wards undisturbed.
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 distribution warehouses in Bolton, such as those at Logistics North?
Yes. A drone survey and thermography cover warehouse roofs of any size, and visits are arranged with the site team around deliveries and yard traffic.
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 Bolton 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.
Can you survey retail park units in Bolton for one landlord?
Yes. Each unit’s roof gets its own report, and access is agreed with every tenant so that trading carries on.
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 Bolton 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 Bolton?
Yes. Surveys cover the whole BL postcode area, from the town centre to Horwich, Westhoughton, Farnworth, Kearsley, Bury and Ramsbottom.
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