Roofing Projects
Roofing pictures are provided to building owners, property managers, roofing companies and/or the engineering firms giving them a better idea of the current state of their roof.
We provide drone services for your roofing projects on both a one time and a regularly scheduled basis, and we specialize in providing flat roof images.
The Crossing - 8115 121a St, Surrey, B.C
Surrey’s Crossing is a condominium that we flew and created a set of roof images for. HiPics provided one set of RGB images shot mid afternoon and a second set of infrared images shot about 3 hours after sunset. The photos here are a sampling of the entire project set
For a standard thermal flat roof report we fly the rooftop twice, and on the same day whenever possible.
We fly the first mission during the daylight hours with the RGB shots shot from both a high and low altitude.
We fly the second mission 3-4 hours after dark giving the roof time to cool off. Once the roof has cooled, the infrared technology easily locates the moisture that is trapped in the insulation and roofing materials.
All of our infrared rooftop assessment images are taken from a specific altitude and angle to the rooftop to ensure accurate results.
In addition to the RGB and Infrared images, we also created a Rooftop Assessment report for the client which highlighted the areas that displayed the various issues which needed to be looked at further and addressed by their contractors.
Glenwood Commerce Center - 6165 Highway 17a, Delta, B.C.
Glenwood Commerce Center is a small commercial warehouse complex near Highway 99 and River road in Delta. For this project we flew both missions on the same day. Using our RGB drone camera. the first mission captured the rooftops by day. We then flew the same roofs again after dark with our infrared drone camera.
Once more the infrared imaging made it very easy to identify a significant number of thermal anomalies on each of the rooftops. In this report, the identified anomalies all represent moisture trapped in and below the rolled roof material.
The images you are seeing are displayed in the Iron-red, White-hot, Black-hot and Arctic infrared color palettes.
The reason for shooting the roof in more than one color palette is because one color palette displays a thermal anomaly clearer than another. Look how well the blue colored moisture spot shows up against the green rooftop area in the Arctic color palette image on the right.
As well as providing the standard still images for this project, we also took visible and infrared video imagery.
The first half of this video displays the rooftop using the infrared color palette called Iron red. With Iron red, the more infrared radiation the surface emits, the hotter or redder the color of the surface in that area is.
The second half of the video displays the rooftop using the color palette White hot. With White hot, the more infrared radiation the camera detects, the whiter that area of the rooftop is.
PICS - Fraser Health 12075 - 75a Ave, Surrey, B.C.
PICS Fraser Health building is a standard Flat Roof Infrared Reporting project.
Included in the deliverables for the project is a 45 second video recording taken using two different drones. This video is made by combining three 15 second shots from three separate flights overtop the roof,
The first 15 seconds of this video are recorded during the afternoon using a standard RGB camera, and the last 30 seconds are recorded after dark using an infrared drone camera.
Strawberry Hills II - 12155 75th Ave, Surrey, B.C.
Strawberry Hills II is a condominium project that was scheduled to have our standard Flat Roof Infrared Report.
During the day time shoot, we discovered an extensive amount of leaves and others types of debris on many of the rooftop surfaces. This condition is often caused by plugged roof drains.
As a result, we postponed the infrared flight until the rooftop had been properly cleaned off and the drains cleared.
You can’t perform a proper thermal roof scan when there is moisture laying on the surface of the roof.
