Industrial Roof Surveys
INDEPENDENT INDUSTRIAL ROOFING SURVEYORS
Nationwide Service
Available to all commercial and industrial property landlords and tenants. Our roof surveyors will visit your premises and conduct a thorough survey of your roof.
Using a variety of access methods, including powered access, drone or camera poles equipped with high quality cameras, the surveyor will examine the whole roof and provide you with a detailed condition report along with budget-cost options for any remedial works.
Industrial roofing can be very specialised, so in addition to our surveys, we are also able to provide a full installation audit on new roof installations, to ensure compliance with manufacturers’ recommendations if required.
We conduct roof surveys on all types of pitched or flat commercial property roofs.
Our roofing surveyors are amongst the most experienced and knowledgeable in the UK today and can provide advice and assistance to other, often larger, building surveying practices on a white label basis.
Sorry, we are not able to carry out inspections on domestic properties.
Metal Roof Surveys
Metal profiled roofs can often suffer from a number of common defects, including cut edge corrosion, coating failure and more.
Our metal roof surveys are designed to identify any issues with the roof and provide budget-costed repair options.
Flat Roof Surveys
Flat roofs of all types, whether they be flat-felted, asphalt, single ply or metal can suffer from a wide range of issues.
Our surveyors can conduct core sampling, moisture mapping and other investigative methods for problematic flat roofs.
Asbestos Roof Surveys
Asbestos roofs are notoriously problematic and most such roofs in the UK are now past their anticipated, economic life.
We will provide you with a condition report with budget-cost repair or replacement options.
ROOF CONDITION SURVEYS
The condition of your commercial property roof might not be the first thing you consider, but when it comes to the end of your lease, it will suddenly become very important to your landlord’s surveyors.
That’s because your lease is most likely to be what’s called “fully repairing and insuring.”
This means that you are responsible for returning the building back to the landlord in a fully repaired condition at the end of the lease.
The lease terms will determine how good a condition that should be, but in any case, it will always be the case that the building should be in no worse a state than it was at the beginning of your lease.
Unfortunately, the condition of all buildings deteriorate with age and use and whilst many commercial property tenants maintain their buildings, few have the time and money available to carry out regular roof maintenance, beyond annual gutter clearance.
There are many reasons for this, the main one being that roof works are expensive and often require special access equipment such as cherry pickers or scaffold.
Consequently roofs often get missed from the maintenance schedule.
The best time to have your roof surveyed by a qualified and independent roofing surveyor, is at the start of your lease, as part of a Schedule of Condition.
This records the state of the roof with a portfolio of high definition photographs that prove the condition of the roof before your occupation. All faults are noted and photographed for inclusion in the lease, as long as the landlord agrees to this.
If the landlord resists having a Schedule of Condition appended to the lease, it might be wiser to look for an alternative property.
The lack of a schedule of condition could cost you dearly at the end of the lease term, since the landlord will be looking for you to make good any repairs to the building.
The first place the landlord’s dilapidations surveyor will look at is the roof, as this is usually the area of a building that is most likely to have been neglected during your tenancy.
Problematic Roofs
It’s often not until there’s a problem that anybody ever looks at their roof, which usually means there’s a water leak.
At this stage, the first port of call is often to a roofer, but that’s not always the best option with industrial or commercial property roofs, for a number of reasons.
Your lease determines how any repairs should be carried out, with the stipulation usually being something like “in a workmanlike manner” or, “good and substantial.”
Clauses like this might be subjective, but at the time when you come to vacate the premises at the end of your lease, you might find that the repair your roofer made was anything but workmanlike, which means of course, that your landlord will be expecting you to pay again for a more robust repair.
Roofers will often provide you with a “free” survey, but that free survey could end up costing you a lot more in the long run.