Commercial roof surveys in Exeter
Roofcheck provides commercial and industrial roof surveys across Exeter and Devon, for the people who look after its hospital, university, college, shopping centre, science park and business parks and need a dependable record of each roof. Moisture mapping, thermography, electronic leak detection, drone and RAAC surveys reach the EX postcode area, from Heavitree and Topsham to Exmouth, Crediton, Tiverton and Honiton.
The roofs we survey here
Exeter’s commercial roofs run from the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital at Wonford and the University of Exeter’s Streatham Campus to Princesshay, the Met Office’s headquarters, Exeter Science Park and the warehouses of the enterprise zone by the airport.
Rain coming in off Dartmoor and the Exe estuary tests every outlet and seam on the city’s flat roofs, and the older buildings around the cathedral add parapet gutters that block easily and leak out of sight.
The Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital
Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, the largest employer in Devon with over 15,000 staff, provides core services for more than 615,000 people over 2,000 square miles, and its Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital at Wonford is a teaching hospital on a large site housing many acute services and specialist centres. Moisture mapping and thermography read its roofs from outside, so wards and clinics carry on.
The University of Exeter and Exeter College
The University of Exeter has 29,700 students, most of them based on Streatham Campus, and Exeter College, rated Outstanding by Ofsted, is the South West Construction Technical Excellence College, with its own Construction Centre and Digital and Data Centre. Lecture theatres, labs and workshops are surveyed in visits arranged with each estates team.
RAAC surveys
No Exeter setting was on the Department for Education’s last published list of settings with confirmed RAAC; Devon’s three were in Exmouth, Colyton and North Devon. The city’s other flat-roofed public buildings from the mid-1950s to the mid-1990s, from clinics to council depots, can still hide the planks, and a RAAC survey looks for them.
Princesshay
Princesshay brings shops, restaurants and cafés together in the heart of Exeter. Leaks under the flat roofs over its shops and walkways are traced with electronic leak detection, which finds the breach without lifting the membrane.
The Met Office and the enterprise zone
The Met Office has its headquarters on Fitzroy Road, Exeter Science Park is a STEMM business park of net zero carbon buildings with office and lab space, and the Exeter and East Devon Enterprise Zone spans four sites, home to businesses such as DPD and LiveWest. Office, lab and warehouse roofs are surveyed by drone and thermography, with access agreed with each occupier.
Solar-ready roofs
Exeter Science Park’s buildings are net zero carbon, and any roof in the city that takes a solar array should first have a condition survey and moisture mapping to show the deck is sound.
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 Exeter to an estate across Devon, 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 EX1, EX4
- St David’s EX1, EX2, EX4
- Newtown and St Leonard’s EX1, EX2, EX4, EX6
- Heavitree EX1, EX2
- Pennsylvania EX1, EX4, EX5
- Duryard and St James EX4
- Exwick EX4
- St Thomas EX2, EX4
- Alphington EX2, EX4
- Priory EX1, EX2
- St Loyes EX1, EX2, EX3
- Topsham EX2, EX3
- Pinhoe EX1, EX4
- Mincinglake and Whipton EX1, EX4
- Cranbrook EX5
- Exmouth EX8
- Dawlish EX7
- Crediton EX17
- Tiverton EX16
- Cullompton EX15
- Honiton EX14
- Sidmouth EX10
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 an Exeter 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 business parks in Exeter, such as those in the enterprise zone?
Yes. Office, lab and distribution roofs on the science park and the enterprise zone’s other sites are surveyed by drone and thermography, with access agreed with each occupier.
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.
Can you survey roofs at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital and the university in Exeter?
Yes. Hospital and campus roofs are read with moisture mapping and thermography from the roof surface, in visits arranged with the trust’s and the university’s estates teams.
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 Exeter 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 shops and offices in Exeter city centre?
Yes. Shop, office and shopping centre roofs in the city centre are tested with electronic leak detection and moisture mapping, with access agreed with each landlord.
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 Exeter 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 Exeter?
Yes. Surveys cover Exeter and the EX area around it, from Topsham and Cranbrook to Exmouth, Dawlish, Crediton, Tiverton, Honiton and Sidmouth.
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