Commercial roof surveys in Stoke-on-Trent
Roofcheck provides commercial and industrial roof surveys across Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire, for the people who look after its hospital, universities, shopping centres, potbanks and warehouses and need a dependable view of a roof’s condition. Moisture mapping, thermography, electronic leak detection, drone and RAAC surveys reach every part of the ST postcode area, from Kidsgrove to Stone.
The roofs we survey here
Stoke-on-Trent’s commercial roofs spread across the city, from the Potteries Centre in Hanley to Royal Stoke University Hospital, the campuses of the University of Staffordshire and Keele, and the factories and warehouses of the Ceramic Valley Enterprise Zone along the A500.
Many of the city’s works roofs are long barrel-vaulted or saw-tooth spans with rooflights and valley gutters between them, and water that gets past a gutter can travel a long way under the covering before it shows inside.
Royal Stoke University Hospital
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust runs Royal Stoke University Hospital and County Hospital in Stafford, and is the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales. Royal Stoke’s one large campus holds 80% of the trust’s services, from the Major Trauma Centre and Staffordshire Children’s Hospital to 60 critical care beds and 1,000 more across 40 wards. On a campus this size, thermography and electronic leak detection find water from the roof surface without closing a ward.
Staffordshire’s universities and the sixth form college
The University of Staffordshire has brought a new Student Village onto its campus, Keele University is a campus university with over 2,600 bedrooms on site, and the City of Stoke-on-Trent Sixth Form College teaches the city’s sixth formers. Halls, teaching blocks and residences are surveyed with each estates team’s agreement, around term and exams.
RAAC in public buildings
None of Stoke-on-Trent’s schools appeared on the Department for Education’s last published list of settings with confirmed RAAC. Offices, clinics and community buildings with flat concrete roofs from the mid-1950s to the mid-1990s are worth a RAAC survey all the same, which shows whether the planks are there.
The Potteries Centre in Hanley
The Potteries Centre, in the city centre at Hanley, puts over 50 shops, seven restaurants and cafes and a nine-screen cinema under one roof. A shopping centre roof like that one carries plant, rooflights and long gutter runs, and electronic leak detection finds the breaches among them.
The Ceramic Valley Enterprise Zone
Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s Ceramic Valley Enterprise Zone is bringing 140 hectares of brownfield land along the A500 back into use across seven key sites, in a city the council calls the world capital of ceramics. Factory, warehouse and new industrial roofs alike are surveyed by drone and thermography, with core samples where the readings point to wet insulation.
Solar on the Potteries’ factory and warehouse roofs
Long factory roofs in Stoke-on-Trent can carry big solar arrays, but a condition survey and moisture mapping should show the roof is sound before any panel goes 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 Stoke-on-Trent to an estate across Staffordshire, 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
- Hanley ST1
- Shelton ST1, ST4
- Etruria ST1, ST4
- Stoke ST4
- Hartshill ST4
- Fenton ST3, ST4
- Longton ST3
- Meir ST3
- Trentham ST4
- Bucknall ST1, ST2
- Bentilee ST2
- Burslem ST6
- Tunstall ST6
- Smallthorne ST1, ST6
- Chell ST6
- Newcastle-under-Lyme ST5
- Keele ST5
- Kidsgrove ST7
- Biddulph ST8
- Werrington ST9
- Leek ST13
- Stone ST15
- Stafford ST16, ST17
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 Stoke-on-Trent 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 pottery works and factories in Stoke-on-Trent?
Yes. Long works roofs and their valley gutters are surveyed by drone and thermography, and every visit keeps clear of the kilns and production lines below.
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 warehouses and units in Stoke-on-Trent along the A500?
Yes. Warehouse and unit roofs are mapped by drone, with thermography to find the wet areas and core samples to confirm them, and access is agreed with each site.
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 Stoke-on-Trent 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 campus buildings in Stoke-on-Trent?
Yes. Clinical and campus roofs are surveyed from above with thermography and electronic leak detection, and visits are agreed with each estates team so services below carry 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 Stoke-on-Trent 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 Stoke-on-Trent?
Yes. Surveys cover the whole ST postcode area, from Hanley and Stoke to Burslem, Tunstall, Longton, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Leek and Stafford.
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