Commercial roof surveys in Swansea
Roofcheck provides commercial and industrial roof surveys across Swansea and south-west Wales, for the people who look after its hospitals, universities, college, market, offices and docks and need a careful record of each roof. Moisture mapping, thermography, electronic leak detection, drone and RAAC surveys reach the SA postcode area, from Mumbles and Morriston to Gorseinon, Neath, Port Talbot and Llanelli.
The roofs we survey here
Swansea’s commercial roofs run from Morriston and Singleton hospitals and Swansea University’s two campuses to the university and college buildings of the SA1 waterfront, Swansea Indoor Market, the new offices on the Kingsway, and the warehouses of the docks.
Salt wind off Swansea Bay meets heavy rain off the hills behind the city, and on the waterfront’s flat roofs that pairing finds out every tired seam, outlet and rooflight.
Morriston and Singleton
Swansea Bay University Health Board serves around 390,000 people in Swansea and Neath Port Talbot with around 14,700 staff, and its Morriston Hospital holds the Welsh Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery, serving south and mid Wales and the south west of England, and one of the two cardiac surgery services in Wales, alongside Singleton Hospital in the city. Thermography and leak detection read their roofs from above, so patients are not disturbed.
Universities and Gower College
Swansea University teaches at its Singleton Park Campus and its Bay Campus on the beach, the University of Wales Trinity Saint David has its SA1 Waterfront Campus and Innovation Quarter by the marina and Swansea College of Art in the city’s art quarter, and Gower College Swansea teaches across six sites, from Gorseinon and Tycoch to Sketty Hall and Kingsway. Studios, labs and campus workshops are surveyed in visits arranged with each estates team, around the teaching.
RAAC, from the Welsh Government
No Swansea school was among the five in Wales that the Welsh Government found with RAAC. Flat concrete roofs from the mid-1950s to the mid-1990s on the city’s clinics, offices and council buildings can still contain the planks, and a RAAC survey answers the question.
Swansea Indoor Market
Swansea Indoor Market is an award-winning, historic market, with The Market Garden and its 7.5 metre pergola at its heart. Electronic leak detection traces water through big market and shop roofs without lifting the membrane, so stallholders carry on trading below.
The docks and the Kingsway
The Port of Swansea can take large vessels and handle a wide range of cargo as well as visiting cruises, and 71/72 Kingsway, the council’s 104,000 sq ft city centre scheme, holds more than 47,000 sq ft of Grade A offices. Port, warehouse and office roofs are surveyed by drone and thermography, with access agreed with each operator.
Solar on the waterfront
Swansea’s waterfront offices and port sheds can carry solar arrays, but salt wind wears hard on what lies beneath, so each roof needs a condition survey and moisture mapping before panels go 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 Swansea to an estate across south-west Wales, 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 SA1
- Castle SA1, SA5
- Waterfront SA1
- St Thomas SA1
- Uplands SA1, SA2
- Sketty SA2, SA3
- Townhill SA1, SA2
- Cockett SA1, SA2, SA5
- Landore SA1, SA5, SA6
- Morriston SA6
- Llansamlet SA1, SA6, SA7
- Bôn-y-maen SA1, SA7
- Clydach SA5, SA6, SA7, SA8
- Mumbles SA3
- Gower SA2, SA3
- Gorseinon SA4
- Pontarddulais SA4, SA5, SA18
- Pontardawe SA8, SA9
- Neath SA10, SA11
- Port Talbot SA12, SA13
- Llanelli SA14, SA15
- Ammanford SA18
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 Swansea 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 port and campus buildings in Swansea, on the SA1 waterfront?
Yes. Port warehouses, offices and campus buildings on the waterfront take salt and spray, and are surveyed by drone and thermography, with access agreed with each operator.
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 Morriston and Singleton hospitals in Swansea?
Yes. Ward and theatre roofs are read with thermography and moisture mapping from the roof surface, in visits planned with the health board’s 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 Swansea 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 offices and the market in Swansea city centre?
Yes. Office, market and shop 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 Swansea 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 Swansea?
Yes. Surveys cover Swansea and the SA area around it, from Mumbles, Gower and Morriston to Gorseinon, Neath, Port Talbot, Llanelli and Ammanford.
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