Commercial roof surveys in Chester
Roofcheck provides commercial and industrial roof surveys across Chester and Cheshire, for the owners and managers of its hospital, university, offices, shops and industrial estates who need a clear, independent record of a roof’s condition. Moisture mapping, thermography, electronic leak detection, drone and RAAC surveys reach the city and the CH districts around it, from Neston and Ellesmere Port to Tattenhall.
The roofs we survey here
Chester’s commercial roofs sit both inside and outside its city walls: shops, offices and venues among the city centre’s historic streets, the hospital and university campuses on its northern side, office buildings on Chester Business Park, and the industrial units of Sealand on the road out towards Wales.
On a centuries-old building, the flat roof is often a later addition hidden behind a parapet, where blocked outlets and tired flashings let water in unseen. Newer offices and units have the opposite problem: long, low roofs whose laps and seams open up across a whole bay.
The Countess of Chester and its community hospitals
The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, with 5,964 staff, cares for over 400,000 people in Chester and West Cheshire and the Deeside area of Flintshire, from the Countess of Chester Hospital, Ellesmere Port Hospital and Tarporley War Memorial Hospital. Thermography reads the condition of a ward block’s roof from above, so nothing below has to close for the survey.
The University of Chester and Cheshire College
The University of Chester began at Exton Park, a short walk from the city centre, and also teaches at its Creative Campus on Kingsway, at Queen’s Park, home to Chester Business School, and at Wheeler, in the city’s legal quarter; Cheshire College South & West has campuses in Chester, Ellesmere Port and Crewe. Surveys of teaching buildings are planned with each estates team, away from classes and exams.
RAAC in west Cheshire’s schools
One secondary school in the borough of Cheshire West and Chester was on the Department for Education’s last published list of settings with confirmed RAAC. Flat concrete roofs on schools, surgeries and council buildings from the mid-1950s to the mid-1990s are where the planks turn up, and a RAAC survey shows whether any are in a given roof.
The Grosvenor, Storyhouse and Cheshire Oaks
Chester’s city centre has the Grosvenor Shopping Centre and Storyhouse, home to a library, theatres and an independent cinema, and Cheshire Oaks Designer Outlet in Ellesmere Port has over 140 stores. On the city’s older buildings, thermography and moisture mapping come first, so nothing is opened up until the readings show where the water is.
Chester Business Park and Sealand
Chester Business Park covers 60 hectares of landscaped grounds beside the A55, a mile from the city centre, and Sealand Industrial Estate and Chester West Employment Park form a well-established industrial area on the city’s south-west edge. Office buildings and industrial units alike are surveyed from the roof, with a drone where access is awkward and core samples to confirm what lies beneath.
Solar on offices and industrial units
Before an array goes onto a Chester office, unit or college roof, a condition survey and moisture mapping check the membrane, the insulation and the deck it will sit on.
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 Chester to an estate across Cheshire, 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
- City centre CH1
- Hoole CH2
- Newton CH2
- Upton CH1, CH2
- Blacon CH1
- Saughall and Mollington CH1
- Handbridge CH4
- Lache CH4
- Great Boughton CH3
- Christleton and Huntington CH3, CH4
- Tarvin and Kelsall CH3
- Tattenhall CH3
- Farndon CH3
- Ellesmere Port CH65, CH66
- Sutton Villages CH66
- Willaston CH64, CH65, CH66
- Neston CH64
- Parkgate CH64
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 Chester 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.
Can you survey roofs in Chester’s historic centre?
Yes. Thermography and moisture mapping read a roof without opening it up, and any core sample from an older building is agreed with the owner before it is taken.
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 office buildings in Chester, such as those on Chester Business Park?
Yes. Office roofs are surveyed with thermography and electronic leak detection, and access is arranged with the building’s managers around the people working inside.
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 Chester 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 industrial units in Chester and Ellesmere Port?
Yes. A drone survey and thermography cover industrial roofs of any size, with core samples wherever the readings point to wet insulation.
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 Chester 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 Chester?
Yes. Surveys cover Chester and the CH districts around it, from Blacon and Upton to Ellesmere Port, Neston, Tarvin and Tattenhall.
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