Drone & hands-on inspections
Roof Inspections
Know exactly what you are standing under.
Drone and hands-on inspections with a photo report — for storm claims, home sales, or plain peace of mind.
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Overview
The deliverable is the report, not a sales pitch.
An inspection should end with you understanding your roof, not with a sales pitch. We photograph every slope, penetration, and problem area — from the air when access or pitch makes that safer — and hand you a report you can keep, show an adjuster, or pass to a buyer. If the roof is fine, we will say the roof is fine.
A lot of free inspections are a sales call with a ladder attached. Ours ends with a set of organised photographs and a written read on condition: every slope, every penetration, the flashing, the ventilation, and how many seasons the roof realistically has left. You keep all of it. If you want to hand it to another contractor for a second bid, that is genuinely fine — we would rather be the company that gave you a real answer than the company that got the job by being the only one in the room.
Our work
Scope of work
What's included.
What an inspection covers, whether it is for a claim, a sale, or your own peace of mind:
- Drone imagery for steep or unsafe pitches
- Full photo report you keep
- Pre-purchase and pre-sale inspections
- Insurance claim documentation
- Attic and ventilation check
- Remaining service life estimate
What to expect
An hour on site, the report the same day.
Thirty to sixty minutes on most homes, depending on size and complexity. Here is how that time gets spent and what lands in your inbox afterwards.
We book around access, not just weather
If you want the attic and ventilation checked — and on an older Michiana house you should, because that is where problems show first — we need to get inside. An exterior-only inspection does not need you home at all.
Ground, roof, and air
We start at ground level for the gutter line, drip edge and elevations, walk what is safe to walk, and fly the rest. Steep pitch, brittle old shingle and wet weather are all reasons to put a drone up rather than a boot — and the photograph is better from up there anyway.
Photographs organised by slope
Not forty unlabelled images in a text message. Photographs grouped by elevation and by problem, so an adjuster, a buyer’s agent or a second contractor can follow them without you having to sit there explaining what they are looking at.
The walk-through, in plain language
We go through the findings with you: what is a problem now, what becomes a problem in three years, and what is simply a twelve-year-old roof being twelve years old and perfectly fine. If nothing needs doing, that is the answer you get and there is no follow-up call.
Free versus paid, so there is no surprise
Post-storm inspections and inspections we carry out as part of quoting work are free — that is just the cost of bidding a job. We charge only when a formal written inspection report is itself the deliverable, which is normally a real-estate transaction where the document has to stand on its own without us attached to it. We will tell you which of the two you are asking for when you book, not when we hand you an invoice.
Common questions
Inspections, answered.
If your question is not here, call (574) 334-6597 and ask. We would rather spend five minutes on the phone than have you guess.
What does an inspection cost?
Post-storm and estimate inspections are free. We charge only for formal written inspections requested for a real-estate transaction, where a documented report is the deliverable.
How long does an inspection take?
Usually 30 to 60 minutes on site, depending on the size and complexity of the roof. You get the photo report the same day.
Do I need to be home?
Not for the exterior inspection. If you want the attic and ventilation checked — and you should, since that is where ventilation problems show first — we will need interior access.
The rest of the envelope
We also handle everything around it.
One crew across the whole exterior, so nothing falls into the gap between two contractors.
Free inspection · No pressure
Find out what you are standing under.
Book an inspection and you get the photographs the same day — with a straight answer about condition and remaining life, and no obligation attached to either.
Mishawaka, IN · Mon–Fri 7:00am–6:00pm · Sat 8:00am–2:00pm