Commercial roof surveys in Liverpool
Roofcheck provides commercial and industrial roof surveys across Liverpool and Merseyside, for the hospitals, universities, dock estates, offices and shopping centres whose managers need clear evidence of what is happening on their roofs. Moisture mapping, thermography, electronic leak detection, drone and RAAC surveys reach every part of the L postcode area, from the Pier Head to Speke.
The roofs we survey here
Liverpool’s commercial roofs run from the waterfront’s offices, listed dock warehouses and the shops of Liverpool ONE, up the hill to the hospitals, universities and laboratories of the Knowledge Quarter, and north along the river to the port’s container terminals and warehousing.
Wind off the Mersey drives rain hard into laps, upstands and parapet gutters. Once water is under a flat membrane it travels through the insulation, often well away from the split that let it in, so the stain on a ceiling seldom marks the leak.
The hospital group, Alder Hey and Clatterbridge
NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group runs five hospital sites: Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Liverpool Women’s Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. Next to the Royal Liverpool stands the Clatterbridge Cancer Centre’s 11-storey Liverpool hospital, and Alder Hey Children’s Hospital was built on part of Springfield Park. Thermography and electronic leak detection find wet insulation above wards and theatres from the roof, so the clinical floors below stay in use.
Universities and colleges in the Knowledge Quarter
KQ Liverpool, the city’s innovation district, is home to the University of Liverpool, Liverpool John Moores University and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Liverpool Hope University teaches in the city too, and The City of Liverpool College has five campuses in the heart of the city. Each visit is planned with the estates team so that lecture theatres, labs and exam halls carry on as normal.
RAAC in schools and civic buildings
One Liverpool secondary school was on the Department for Education’s last published list of settings with confirmed RAAC. Libraries, clinics, offices and schools roofed in flat concrete planks between the mid-1950s and the mid-1990s are where RAAC turns up, and a RAAC survey tells you whether a roof has it.
Liverpool ONE and the Royal Albert Dock
Liverpool ONE is a 1.65 million sq ft open-air complex of more than 170 stores, bars, restaurants and leisure experiences, and the Royal Albert Dock holds the largest single collection of Grade I listed buildings in the country, five-storey warehouses built from 23 million bricks. On buildings like these the survey starts with methods that leave the fabric alone: thermography and electronic leak detection find the water before anyone opens a roof.
The Port of Liverpool and Liverpool Waters
Peel Ports’ Port of Liverpool runs two container terminals, Royal Seaforth and Liverpool2, beside purpose-built biomass and steel terminals and multi-user warehousing, and Liverpool Waters spans Princes Dock, Central Docks, Clarence Docks and the Northern Docks, with Grade A offices at 12 Princes Dock. A drone survey records a warehouse roof bay by bay, and core samples confirm the build-up before repairs are priced.
Solar on dock and college roofs
Before solar panels go onto a Liverpool warehouse, college or office roof, a condition survey and moisture mapping show whether the membrane underneath is sound enough to sit beneath an array.
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 Liverpool to an estate across Merseyside, 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 L1, L2, L3
- Everton L5, L6
- Anfield L4, L6
- Kensington and Fairfield L6, L7
- Edge Hill L7
- Toxteth L8
- Dingle L8
- Walton L4, L9
- Fazakerley L9, L10, L11
- Norris Green L11, L13
- West Derby L12
- Old Swan L13
- Wavertree L15
- Childwall L16
- Aigburth L17, L19
- Allerton L18
- Garston L19
- Speke L24
- Woolton L25
- Halewood L26
- Huyton L36
- Kirkby L32, L33
- Bootle L20
- Crosby L22, L23
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 Liverpool 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 the roofs of listed buildings in Liverpool, such as those on the waterfront?
Yes. Thermography and moisture mapping read a roof without opening it, and electronic leak detection finds a breach in a flat membrane, so the fabric is left as it was. Anything intrusive, such as a core sample, is agreed with the owner first.
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 dock warehouses and port buildings in Liverpool and Bootle?
Yes. Long warehouse roofs are surveyed by drone and thermography, with core samples where the readings call for them, and each visit is arranged with site security around the yard’s 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 Liverpool 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 hospital and university buildings in Liverpool’s Knowledge Quarter?
Yes. Clinical and research roofs carry plant, flues and extract fans, so readings are taken around them, and each visit is booked with the estates team so that wards, labs and lecture theatres keep working.
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 Liverpool 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 Liverpool?
Yes. Surveys cover the whole L postcode area, from the city centre and the docks to Bootle, Crosby, Kirkby, Huyton, Halewood and Speke.
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