Drone Leak Investigation · Commercial & Strata
Podium & Plaza Deck Leak Investigation by drone.
Podium decks, plaza membranes, planters, and amenity terraces over occupied space — the leak paths that drip into parkades and units below, mapped thermally from above before anyone lifts a single paver.
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Why owners and operators choose it
- Locates wet insulation and membrane breaches under overburden
- Turns 'lift everything' into 'open these three zones'
- Evidence-grade mapping for strata councils and consultants
- Pairs with our ground flood-testing for confirmation
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How the investigation runs
- 1
Assembly review
Deck drawings establish the assembly — membrane type, insulation position, overburden, drains — and below-deck leak reports establish where water is actually arriving.
- 2
Thermal deck mapping
Flown in the contrast window where wet insulation and saturated overburden lag the dry assembly's temperature swing — anomaly zones mapped across the entire deck, planters and all.
- 3
Correlation analysis
Aerial anomalies are correlated with below-deck drip locations, drain layouts, and slope patterns. Water travels laterally in these assemblies — the entry point is rarely above the drip, and this analysis is where it gets found.
- 4
Opening plan
A deck plan marking the zones worth opening — small, targeted exploratory openings instead of wholesale overburden removal. Flood-test confirmation available on the same file.
Aerial screening + ground confirmation, one company
The aerial survey ranks where the problems are; Leak.ca's ground crews — the same team pinpointing BC leaks since 1999 — confirm them with acoustic correlation, moisture probing, and flood testing where the finding warrants it. One accountable report from first flight to repair-ready coordinates, instead of two vendors pointing at each other.
Frequently asked
Why are podium deck leaks so hard to find?
Because the assembly hides everything: pavers or landscaping over insulation over membrane over structure, with water free to travel laterally between layers for metres before it finds a crack to drip through. The drip in parking stall 41 may enter at a planter fifteen metres away. Opening the deck randomly is brutally expensive — which is why mapping before opening matters more here than almost anywhere.
Can thermal imaging really see through pavers?
It reads the thermal behaviour of the assembly below the surface. Saturated insulation and wet overburden store heat differently from dry assembly and lag the daily swing — flown in the right window, the wet zones pattern clearly even under pavers and growing medium. It is screening, not X-ray vision: it tells you which zones to open, and that targeting routinely cuts exploratory costs dramatically.
Our strata is facing a deck remediation. How does this help?
It scopes the problem honestly before anyone prices the fix. A full-deck moisture map shows whether you have localised breaches (repairable) or systemic saturation (remediation), and gives council an objective document for the depreciation report, the consultant, and the membership vote. Several BC building-envelope consultants commission exactly this survey as their first data layer.
Do you confirm what the aerial map shows?
Yes — that is the Leak.ca difference. The same file can proceed to targeted flood testing, moisture probing at mapped zones, and below-deck verification by our ground crews. Aerial map plus physical confirmation, one company, one report.
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