Roof, Facade & Building Envelope Audits
Radiometric moisture mapping, high-resolution facade capture, and measured roof takeoffs for commercial, industrial, and multi-family assets. No lifts, no swing stages, no core cuts.
A roof is the most expensive thing on the building and the least looked at
It’s out of sight, it’s awkward to reach, and getting a person onto it safely costs real money. So the inspection slips a year, then another, and the first genuine report on the roof’s condition arrives in the form of a stain on a tenant’s ceiling. By then the insulation is wet across a much larger area than the leak suggests.
Flying it removes the reason to defer. One visit covers the whole surface and every elevation, thermal shows what’s wet underneath, and nobody is suspended over an occupied building. You can afford to look annually instead of reactively, which is the entire difference between maintenance and replacement.
Florida is unusually hard on envelopes. UV and heat age membranes and sealants fast, salt air works on flashing and fasteners along both coasts, and one storm season can undo a decade of careful maintenance. It’s also the state where condominium and cooperative buildings are now working through milestone inspection deadlines on a statutory clock.
What an envelope audit actually covers
Scope depends on whether you’re chasing a leak, budgeting a replacement, or handing evidence to an engineer.
Radiometric roof moisture mapping
Calibrated thermal finds sub-surface water intrusion, trapped moisture, and degraded insulation on TPO, EPDM, modified bitumen, and built-up systems, without a single core cut.
High-rise facade and structural audits
Dense vertical imagery of concrete spalling, masonry cracking, sealant failure, and balcony slab condition, captured without swing stages or cranes.
Milestone and SIRS support data
The complete vertical visual record your licensed engineer or architect needs when preparing a Florida milestone inspection or structural integrity reserve study.
Measured roof takeoffs
Facet-by-facet area, pitch, and total squares, plus linear footage of ridge, hip, valley, rake, and eave, so a bid can be built or checked without a ladder.
Warranty and post-storm documentation
Annual condition records that keep a warranty defensible, and rapid dated capture after a named storm when a carrier is going to ask what the roof looked like before.
Portfolio and due diligence programs
One capture standard across every property you hold, whether that’s annual condition monitoring or pre-acquisition assessment before a roof becomes your problem.
Why asset managers put this on a schedule
- Non-invasive diagnosis. Moisture gets mapped under the membrane without cutting a hole in a roof you’re trying to keep watertight.
- Nobody is exposed. Twenty-story facades and wide industrial spans get inspected with zero staging time and no hazard to occupants.
- Capital planning gets evidence. Georeferenced proof of condition turns a repair budget argument into a ranked list.
- Warranty claims hold up. An annual dated record is what a manufacturer wants when you make a claim years later.
- Tenants never notice. No swing stage, no lift in the parking deck, no closures.
- Portfolios become comparable. Same capture standard on every asset, so you can rank spend across the whole book.
Engineering-ready visual and thermal datasets
Tell us who is receiving the files and we’ll format for them.
Radiometric thermal
High-resolution TIFFs that retain temperature values, so a differential can be measured later rather than eyeballed off a color ramp.
Facade orthomosaics
Composite vertical elevation maps with defects tagged to exact spatial position on the face of the building.
Measured takeoffs
Facet areas, pitches, total squares, and linear footage by edge type, delivered as a report your roofer can bid from.
Annotated anomaly report
An executive summary of spalling, cracking, sealant failure, and moisture, ranked by severity with coordinates.
Located imagery
Full-resolution stills indexed by elevation, roof zone, and floor level so a finding has an address.
Point clouds on request
LAS or E57 where an engineer needs real dimensions or a model rather than imagery.
Have a site or an asset that needs documenting?Tell us the asset and the deadline. We’ll scope it and price it.
Commercial roof inspection across Florida
Orlando is home and we cover the state. These markets have their own pages.
Other work on the same buildings
Roof and envelope questions
What owners, property managers, and engineers ask us before we fly a building.
What can a drone find on a roof that a walk can’t?
Two things, mostly. The first is scale: a camera covers an entire low-slope roof in one pass, including the sections nobody wants to walk near, so you get the whole surface rather than the parts that were convenient. The second is trapped moisture. Radiometric thermal shows saturated insulation under an intact membrane, which is invisible from above and usually the difference between a patch and a tear-off.
Do you cut cores to confirm moisture?
No, and that’s the point of flying it. Core cuts confirm a suspicion by making a hole in a roof you’re trying to keep watertight. Thermal maps the extent of the wet area non-invasively, so if your roofer does want to core, they core in the right two places instead of guessing across the whole deck.
Can you measure a roof, not just photograph it?
Yes. We produce a facet-by-facet takeoff with pitch, area per facet, total squares, and the linear footage of ridge, hip, valley, rake, and eave. Contractors use it to bid without sending someone up a ladder, and owners use it to sanity-check a bid they have already been handed.
Can you perform our milestone inspection or SIRS?
No. Under Florida law the milestone inspection and the structural integrity reserve study must be performed and sealed by a licensed engineer or architect, and those requirements apply to condominium and cooperative buildings three stories and up. What we do is supply the vertical visual and thermal record that professional works from, which saves them the rigging and gets them far more complete coverage of the elevations. Several engineering firms bring us in for exactly that.
How high can you inspect a facade?
Height is rarely the limit; airspace and wind are. We have captured elevations well past twenty stories, and the practical constraints are the authorizations for the airspace over the building and whether conditions are stable enough for consistent overlap. We check both before scheduling rather than after.
What roof systems do you work on?
Low-slope commercial systems mostly: TPO, EPDM, modified bitumen, and built-up. We also fly metal, tile, and shingle on multi-family and mixed-use assets. The system matters less for capture than for interpretation, so tell us what’s up there and roughly when it was installed.
Will this documentation help with an insurance claim or a warranty?
It’s designed to. Dated, geolocated imagery of condition is exactly what carriers and manufacturers ask for, whether that’s proving storm damage after the fact or proving the roof was maintained under a warranty. We can’t promise how a given adjuster will rule, but having the record beats reconstructing it from memory.
Get the envelope documented
Send the property, the square footage, and what you need to answer. We’ll schedule around your tenants and tell you exactly what the report will contain before we fly.
100 E Pine St, Suite 110 · Orlando, FL 32801
FAA Part 107 Certified · Fully Insured
Request an envelope audit
Property details and inspection objectives, and we’ll come back with scope and cost.