For commercial owners, managers & REITs
Your portfolio's water problems, found before tenants find them.
Commercial water damage doesn't announce itself — it compounds quietly in roof insulation, podium assemblies, and buried services until it surfaces as a tenant complaint, an insurance claim, and an unbudgeted capital hit in the same week. Aerial investigation inverts that: whole buildings screened in single flights, whole portfolios in days, findings quantified and ranked — with ground confirmation by the crews finding BC's leaks since 1999.
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The arithmetic owners actually run
Reactive costs compound. A leak found by a tenant arrives with saturated insulation, damaged improvements, rent abatement exposure, and emergency-rate trades. The same breach found on a baseline flight is a scheduled patch.
Capital decisions need measurements. “The roof is 22 years old” justifies a re-roof. “340 m² of 9,000 m² shows saturation, here and here” justifies targeted repair and a defensible deferral — the difference is routinely seven figures per building.
Claims reward documentation. Pre-event baselines separate storm damage from wear; time-stamped post-event imagery lands inside the claim window; clean passes protect you from misattributed problems. Insurers move on evidence.
What a commercial program includes
Annual roof & deck baselines
Every building moisture-mapped in one mobilisation — quantified wet areas on scaled plans, year-over-year change detection, and capital planning that argues from measurements instead of age.
Roof thermal inspectionPodium & plaza deck investigation
The parkade drip whose entry point hides fifteen metres away under pavers — mapped thermally across the full deck before a single square metre of overburden is lifted.
Podium deck investigationPost-storm portfolio triage
A pre-agreed site list, flight priorities, and rates — activated by one phone call after a qualifying event. Damage order replaces complaint order; documentation lands inside the claim window.
Post-storm assessmentSurvey-grade evidence on demand
Disputes, due diligence, remediation scoping — RTK moisture orthomosaics your consultants measure from, with raw radiometric data preserved for independent analysis.
Moisture orthomosaic mappingBy asset class
Risk profiles, recommended services, and owner FAQs — one dedicated page per asset class:
Why portfolios choose Leak.ca
- One company from aerial screen to ground-confirmed, repair-ready locations — no vendor handoffs
- Leak specialists since 1999, not a drone operator learning buildings
- Licensed and insured; Transport Canada-certified RPAS pilots; WorkSafe BC compliant
- Radiometric, RTK-positioned evidence — measurable by your consultants, preserved raw
- Scheduling built around tenants: evening windows, exterior-only screening, zero closures
- Reports formatted for the three audiences that matter: your contractor, your insurer, your capital plan
Commercial owners ask
How does a commercial portfolio program actually work?
We baseline every roof and problem assembly in the portfolio on one mobilisation — moisture-mapped plans per building, quantified wet areas, ranked severity. From there the program runs on triggers: an annual re-flight for change detection, event-triggered triage after qualifying storms, and targeted investigation whenever a building develops symptoms. Pricing is structured per-portfolio, not per-emergency.
What does this cost against conventional investigation?
A drone survey of a large commercial roof typically costs a fraction of scaffold-or-lift-based investigation — and a tiny fraction of the exploratory opening it replaces. The bigger number is avoided capital: owners routinely discover that a roof 'due for replacement' has localised saturation only, converting a seven-figure re-roof into five-figure targeted repairs with evidence to support the decision.
Will tenants or operations notice anything?
No. Flights are exterior, brief, and scheduled with property management — thermal missions typically fly in evening windows after hours. No swing stages over entrances, no roof traffic over occupied space, no parking closures, no access through tenant premises for the screening phase.
Is the documentation accepted by insurers and lenders?
Radiometric, time-stamped, georeferenced documentation is exactly what insurers, adjusters, and lenders' engineers want: objective condition evidence. Annual baselines establish pre-event condition (decisive in storm claims), clean passes document diligence, and post-event triage reports are formatted to move claims rather than stall them.
We manage strata properties too. Does the program extend to them?
Yes — management companies commonly run one program across rental, commercial, and strata-managed buildings. Strata files get the evidence grade councils need for depreciation reports and levy votes; see our dedicated strata services for the Strata Property Act side of inter-unit work.
What happens when the aerial survey finds something?
It gets confirmed — by our own ground crews, not a referral. Acoustic correlation, moisture probing, flood testing where warranted, then one report with repair-ready locations your roofer or envelope contractor executes against. Leak.ca has pinpointed BC leaks since 1999; the aerial layer targets that expertise, it doesn't replace it.
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Scope a portfolio program in one call
Building list, asset classes, priorities — and a program structure with firm numbers, usually inside a week. Free phone consult, no pressure.