Commercial roof surveys in Taunton
Roofcheck provides commercial and industrial roof surveys across Taunton and Somerset, for the people who manage its hospital, college, government offices, shopping centre and business parks and need a reliable record of each roof. Moisture mapping, thermography, electronic leak detection, drone and RAAC surveys reach the TA postcode area, from Wellington and Bridgwater to Minehead, Chard, Ilminster and Burnham-on-Sea.
The roofs we survey here
Taunton’s commercial roofs run from Musgrove Park Hospital and Taunton College to the Orchard Shopping Centre in the town centre, the UK Hydrographic Office on Admiralty Way, the council’s offices at County Hall, and the business park planned at Nexus 25 by the motorway.
As Somerset’s county town, Taunton is home to a hospital, a college and the county council’s offices, and many of its public buildings sit under flat roofs that have been patched rather than replaced.
Musgrove Park Hospital
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust runs two acute hospitals, Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton and Yeovil Hospital, along with 13 community hospitals in the county, and Musgrove Park is built over one large area of the town with a range of linked or separate buildings. A drone survey maps a site like this roof by roof, with thermography to find wet insulation.
Taunton College
Taunton College, part of UCS College Group, teaches on Wellington Road, where its £12m Arts House is a dedicated art and design centre. Studios, workshops and teaching blocks are surveyed in visits planned with the college’s estates team, so lessons go ahead.
RAAC surveys
A special school in Taunton was the town’s one setting on the Department for Education’s last published list of settings with confirmed RAAC. The town’s other flat-roofed schools, clinics and council buildings from the mid-1950s to the mid-1990s are worth a RAAC survey too.
The Orchard Shopping Centre
The Orchard Shopping Centre sits at the very heart of Taunton town centre, with entrances from the High Street and Fore Street. Electronic leak detection traces water through its flat roofs without lifting the membrane, so the shops below stay open.
The Hydrographic Office and Nexus 25
The UK Hydrographic Office, an executive agency sponsored by the Ministry of Defence, has its home on Admiralty Way, and Nexus 25, Somerset Council’s employment site at junction 25 of the M5, is planned as a green campus of research and development space, offices, light industrial units and warehouses, where more than 3,500 jobs could be created. Office and warehouse roofs are surveyed by drone and thermography, with access agreed with each occupier.
Solar in Somerset’s county town
Taunton’s offices and new business units can carry solar panels, and each roof should have a condition survey and moisture mapping before an array is fixed to it, so nothing wet is sealed in.
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 Taunton to an estate across Somerset, 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 TA1
- Taunton North TA1, TA2
- Taunton East TA1
- Taunton South TA1
- Bishop’s Hull and Taunton West TA1, TA2, TA4
- Rowbarton and Staplegrove TA2, TA5
- Comeytrowe and Trull TA1, TA3, TA4, TA21
- Monkton and North Curry TA1, TA2, TA3, TA7
- Lydeard TA2, TA4, TA5
- Wellington TA21
- North Petherton TA2, TA3, TA5, TA6, TA7
- Bridgwater TA5, TA6, TA7
- Burnham-on-Sea TA9
- Highbridge TA9
- Minehead TA24
- Ilminster TA3, TA19, TA20
- Chard TA20
- Crewkerne TA18, TA20
- Langport TA3, TA7, TA10, TA19
- Somerton TA10, TA11
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 Taunton 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 government and business park offices in Taunton?
Yes. Office and warehouse roofs, from government buildings to new business units, are surveyed by drone and thermography, with every visit cleared with the site’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.
Can you survey Musgrove Park Hospital and the college in Taunton?
Yes. Clinical and teaching roofs are surveyed from above with thermography and electronic leak detection, in visits agreed 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 Taunton 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 shop roofs in Taunton town centre?
Yes. Shop and shopping centre roofs in the town 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 Taunton 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 Taunton?
Yes. Surveys cover Taunton and the TA area around it, from Wellington and Bridgwater to Minehead, Burnham-on-Sea, Chard, Crewkerne and Ilminster.
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