# Drone Services Devon

> Not sure what to ask for? Say it in plain words and we will fly the right thing: roofs, buildings, land, sites and photographs across Devon and the South West.

Somebody in Devon or the South West who needs a drone for something and does not know what the service is called, from a roof they cannot see to a field they need a picture of.

Most people who ring have a problem, not a service name. Tell us what you can see, or cannot see, and we will tell you which survey answers it and what it costs before anything is booked.

## Services

- [Property and roof surveys](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/services/property-and-roof): Anything on or about a building you cannot get to: roof coverings, ridges, valleys, chimneys, gutters, flat roofs and cladding.
- [Land and site surveys](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/services/land-and-sites): Land, fields, farms and development sites, where the useful thing is a picture of the whole shape of a place rather than a close-up of one detail.
- [Photographs and video](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/services/photos-and-video): Pictures rather than a report: a house going on the market, a business that wants proper images of its own premises, a venue, a view, an event.

## Key pages

- [Home](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/): Drone work across Devon and the South West, in plain words
- [Services](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/services): What Drone Services Devon does and what each job includes.
- [How it works](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/how-it-works): How a job runs, from the first call to what arrives afterwards.
- [Areas covered](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas): 47 towns across Devon and the South West.
- [About](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/about): Who runs Drone Services Devon and how it works.
- [Contact](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/contact): How to get in touch and what happens next.

## Other pages

- [What do i need](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/what-do-i-need)

## Areas covered

- [Exeter, Devon](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/exeter): The base town, where the work splits three ways between city roofs, the trading estates and the new development spreading east.
- [Topsham, Devon](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/topsham): Listed merchant houses on a tight estuary grid, where the salt air is constant and getting a ladder anywhere near a roof is the whole problem.
- [Exmouth, Devon](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/exmouth): Two miles of open seafront and hillside villas, generating storm damage work in winter and marina and beach photography through the summer.
- [Dawlish, Devon](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/dawlish): Clifftop bungalow estates and a seafront that takes sea water over the wall, which makes this one of the busiest storm-damage towns on the list.
- [Teignmouth, Devon](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/teignmouth): A resort and a working port together, where easterly weather off the Channel drives the survey work and the estuary sells the photography.
- [Newton Abbot, Devon](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/newton-abbot): Railway-era terraces on damp low ground plus large trading estates, which splits the work evenly between roofs and commercial flat roofs.
- [Crediton, Devon](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/crediton): Thatch, cob and red sandstone farmland, where the everyday enquiries are ridges, barn roofs and land rather than anything on a high street.
- [Cullompton, Devon](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/cullompton): A Culm valley town of cob, thatch and estate housing beside the motorway, where industrial roofs and new-build checks are as common as anything domestic.
- [Tiverton, Devon](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/tiverton): Steep ground, mill terraces and a wet corner of Mid Devon, which puts a lot of roofs above the general roofline and out of reach of anything on wheels.
- [Ottery St Mary, Devon](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/ottery-st-mary): An Otter valley market town of thatch, cob and modern estates, where mist in the valley bottom shapes what a survey finds.
- [Honiton, Devon](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/honiton): A long Georgian high street under the Blackdowns, where sitting fog keeps roofs wet and a uniform frontage hides complicated roofwork behind it.
- [Sidmouth, Devon](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/sidmouth): Regency roofscapes in a steep valley, where turbulent wind off the sea and lead-lined parapet gutters make this one of the more technical towns here.
- [Budleigh Salterton, Devon](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/budleigh-salterton): Substantial villas in generous plots on a quiet stretch of coast, where long-held property and a mature population shape most of what comes in.
- [Seaton, Devon](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/seaton): Seafront terraces and a large bungalow stock a few metres from a shingle beach, which makes gale-driven rain and shallow pitches the recurring theme.
- [Axminster, Devon](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/axminster): A hilltop town open to wind from every quarter, with former mill and factory buildings that bring large-span roofs into an otherwise domestic mix.
- [Okehampton, Devon](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/okehampton): The wettest, windiest town on the list, at the foot of the high moor, where farm buildings and open ground matter as much as the town itself.
- [Tavistock, Devon](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/tavistock): A green stone Victorian town between Dartmoor and the Tamar, with tall stone stacks, steep sites and a mining heritage landscape around it.
- [Totnes, Devon](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/totnes): A steep medieval hill town on the Dart, where slate hanging, hidden valleys and party wall abutments make the roofs far more complicated than they look.
- [Torquay, Devon](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/torquay): Grand Victorian villas and hotels on seven hills, with elaborate roofscapes that are hard to reach, hard to see and expensive to get wrong.
- [Paignton, Devon](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/paignton): Flat ground behind a long sandy beach, with Edwardian semis, guest houses and a lot of flat-roofed extensions that nobody can see.
- [Brixham, Devon](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/brixham): A working fishing port in a steep bowl, the most exposed corner of Torbay, where tightly packed cottages and a live harbour shape every visit.
- [Dartmouth, Devon](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/dartmouth): Timber-framed merchant houses on streets that turn into stairs, where one roof drains towards its neighbour and nothing is reachable conventionally.
- [Kingsbridge, Devon](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/kingsbridge): A steep estuary head town climbing hard from the quay, where slate hanging, dormers and turbulence around chimneys are the recurring subjects.
- [Salcombe, Devon](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/salcombe): Contemporary flat roofs, zinc and glazing stacked up a very steep hillside above the water, in one of the most salt-exposed positions in the county.
- [Ivybridge, Devon](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/ivybridge): A moor edge commuter town built almost entirely between the 1970s and the 1990s, which brings the whole place to the same maintenance age at once.
- [Plymouth, Devon](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/plymouth): A naval city of limestone ridges and post-war flat roofs, where commercial and managing agent work outweighs domestic enquiries by a wide margin.
- [Saltash, Cornwall](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/saltash): A Tamar crossing town on near-vertical waterfront streets, where the gradient makes conventional access expensive and the valley funnels the wind.
- [Liskeard, Cornwall](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/liskeard): A high mining town with substantial stone buildings and terraced cottages, where above average rainfall and constant driving rain set the maintenance pace.
- [Launceston, Cornwall](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/launceston): A hilltop former county town catching weather off two moors, where slate hanging is a structural necessity and the historic core is tightly packed.
- [Holsworthy, Devon](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/holsworthy): An open Culm Measures plateau town where farms dominate, ground is heavy clay, and agricultural roofs are the single biggest category of work.
- [Bude, Cornwall](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/bude): An Atlantic surf town as exposed as anywhere here, where cliff-top estates lose ridge tiles most winters and holiday stock sits unwatched between seasons.
- [Great Torrington, Devon](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/great-torrington): A hilltop town standing above everything around it, where wind arrives from every direction and an industrial legacy adds large roofs to a small place.
- [Bideford, Devon](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/bideford): A steep former shipbuilding port on the Torridge, where slate hanging is a necessity and the old town's gradient rules out most conventional access.
- [Barnstaple, Devon](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/barnstaple): North Devon's main town, where high rainfall and long wetting periods do the damage, and the trading estates carry as much roof area as the housing does.
- [Ilfracombe, Devon](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/ilfracombe): Dramatic Victorian hillside terraces on the north coast, where parapets and hidden gutters mean water problems show inside before they show outside.
- [South Molton, Devon](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/south-molton): A Georgian market town on the southern approach to Exmoor, where livestock farming means agricultural roofs and land records outnumber anything domestic.
- [Minehead, Somerset](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/minehead): A Bristol Channel resort under North Hill, where downdraughts off the hill and a large holiday stock shape most of what comes in.
- [Taunton, Somerset](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/taunton): A large, growing county town on flat ground, where new development and commercial flat roofs generate more work than the historic centre does.
- [Wellington, Somerset](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/wellington): A mill town under the Blackdown escarpment, where wind accelerates over the ridge and the former mill buildings bring large roofs into a small place.
- [Bridgwater, Somerset](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/bridgwater): A low, flat industrial town on the Levels, where wind comes across open ground unbroken and the estates and Hinkley growth dominate the workload.
- [Chard, Somerset](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/chard): The highest town in Somerset, exposed on a ridge from every direction, with a lace mill legacy and hamstone detailing that weathers on its own timetable.
- [Yeovil, Somerset](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/yeovil): A manufacturing town in hamstone country, where large industrial roofs and post-war estates carry the work and the climate is kinder than Devon's.
- [Sherborne, Dorset](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/sherborne): An abbey town of consistent hamstone, where lead, parapets and valleys on historic and school buildings make the failures slow, hidden and expensive.
- [Dorchester, Dorset](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/dorchester): A chalk downland county town where frost rather than damp does the damage, and Poundbury adds a modern stock with a traditional roof vocabulary.
- [Weymouth, Dorset](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/weymouth): A Georgian esplanade of parapet and hidden gutter construction on an exposed bay, where the local risk is a failure that never shows outside.
- [Bridport, Dorset](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/bridport): A rope-making town in a valley between greensand hills, with unusually wide streets, southerly weather funnelled up from West Bay, and thatch on the edges.
- [Lyme Regis, Dorset](https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/areas/lyme-regis): A harbour town built into an actively moving landslip coast, where ground movement shows up in ridge lines and flashings before it shows anywhere else.

## What is on the record

- CAA registered operator: Operator ID and Flyer ID both held and current with the Civil Aviation Authority, which is the baseline for flying commercially in UK airspace.
- A2 Certificate of Competency: The A2 CofC, which allows closer flying to buildings and to people not involved in the flight than the basic qualification does. It does not extend to flying over crowds, and nothing on this site suggests it might.
- DJI Mavic 4 Pro: A 100 megapixel Hasselblad camera and 6K video. Enough resolution that one flight can produce both a photograph fit to print and a frame close enough to read a hairline crack.
- DJI Mavic 2 Enterprise Advanced: A 640 by 512 radiometric thermal camera for the jobs where the answer is a temperature difference rather than something visible: trapped moisture, heat leaving a building, a warm shape on cold ground.
- Insured with Coverdrone: Full commercial cover, and the certificate goes to anyone who needs to see it before a visit. Managing agents and site managers usually do, and asking is sensible rather than awkward.
- A construction background: The person flying has worked in construction, which is why the report says what a defect is and where it sits rather than only that something looks wrong in a photograph.
- Fixed price, agreed first: The price is set before the visit and travel inside the coverage area is part of it. No hourly creep, no mileage added afterwards.
- Written report within 48 hours: Where the job needs a report, it lands within 48 hours of the flight. Photograph-only jobs have their delivery date agreed at booking instead.

## Contact

- Phone: 07397 809570
- Email: info@exeterdronesurveys.co.uk
- Enquiry form: https://drone-services-devon.co.uk/contact
- Based in Exeter, covering Devon and the South West

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