Commercial roof surveys in Guildford
Roofcheck provides commercial and industrial roof surveys across Guildford and Surrey, for the people who look after its hospital, university, college, research park and shopping streets and need a sound record of each roof. Moisture mapping, thermography, electronic leak detection, drone and RAAC surveys reach the GU postcode area, from Burpham and Merrow to Godalming, Woking, Farnham and Ash.
The roofs we survey here
Guildford’s commercial roofs run from the Royal Surrey County Hospital and the University of Surrey’s campuses to the Friary and the shops of the High Street, the offices and labs of Surrey Research Park, and the depots and industrial units around Slyfield.
The steep, cobbled High Street packs old and new buildings close together, and the flat roofs hidden behind their fronts collect ponding water, split seams and wet insulation that nobody sees from the street.
The Royal Surrey County Hospital
Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust, a regional cancer centre, runs the Royal Surrey County Hospital on Egerton Road along with community hospitals at Haslemere, Milford and Cranleigh. Moisture mapping and thermography read its ward and clinic roofs from outside, so care carries on beneath them.
The University of Surrey and Guildford College
The University of Surrey teaches on its Stag Hill and Manor Park campuses, set in Surrey countryside with the town close by, and Guildford College, part of Activate Learning, has a newly renovated campus of its own. Lecture theatres, labs and workshops are surveyed in visits arranged with each estates team, so teaching goes on.
RAAC in schools
Two Guildford schools, an infant school and a secondary, were among Surrey’s seven settings on the Department for Education’s last published list of settings with confirmed RAAC. Other flat-roofed public buildings in the borough from the mid-1950s to the mid-1990s can hold the same planks, and a RAAC survey finds them.
The Friary and the High Street
The Friary, the shopping centre on North Street, sits a street away from the High Street’s shops and offices in the middle of Guildford. A leak under the Friary’s roofs or a High Street shop is found with electronic leak detection, which pinpoints the breach without lifting the membrane.
Surrey Research Park and Weyside
Surrey Research Park, part of the University of Surrey, lets everything from incubator workstations and small offices to units of up to 40,000 sq ft, and Weyside Urban Village is building some 1,500 homes on brownfield land in the north of the town, with a new sewage treatment plant and a council depot. Office, lab, depot and industrial roofs are surveyed by drone and thermography, with access agreed with each site’s managers.
Solar on offices and labs
Guildford’s offices, labs and retail units make good hosts for solar, but each roof needs a condition survey and moisture mapping first, so the panels never sit over damp insulation.
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 Guildford to an estate across Surrey, 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 GU1, GU2
- Castle GU1, GU4
- Onslow GU2, GU3
- Westborough GU2, GU3
- Stoughton GU2
- Stoke GU1, GU2, GU3, GU4
- St Nicolas GU1, GU2
- Bellfields and Slyfield GU1
- Burpham GU1, GU4
- Merrow GU1, GU4
- Worplesdon GU1, GU2, GU3, GU4
- Shalford GU2, GU3, GU4, GU5, GU7
- Clandon and Horsley GU4, GU23
- Send GU23
- Normandy and Pirbright GU3, GU12
- Ash GU12
- Godalming GU7
- Woking GU21, GU22
- Farnham GU9
- Camberley GU15
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 Guildford 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 offices and labs in Guildford, such as those at Surrey Research Park?
Yes. Office and lab roofs on the research park are surveyed with thermography and electronic leak detection, with access agreed with each tenant and the park’s managers.
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 the Royal Surrey County Hospital and university buildings in Guildford?
Yes. Ward, lab and lecture theatre roofs are read from above with thermography and moisture mapping, in visits planned with each estates team.
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 Guildford 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 High Street shops and offices in Guildford?
Yes. Roofs behind the High Street’s shopfronts, many of them out of sight from the street, are surveyed by drone and tested with electronic leak detection, 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 Guildford 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 Guildford?
Yes. Surveys cover Guildford and the GU area around it, from Burpham, Merrow and Shalford to Godalming, Woking, Farnham, Ash and Camberley.
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