Drone Leak Investigation · Commercial & Government
Post-Storm Portfolio Leak Assessment by drone.
After an atmospheric river, windstorm, or freeze event — every roof and site in your portfolio triaged by drone in days, damage and active water entry documented while the evidence is fresh and the insurer's clock is running.
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Why owners and operators choose it
- Triage order replaces tenant-complaint order
- Active water entry separated from cosmetic damage
- Documentation aligned to insurance claim timelines
- No waiting for roofers to walk every building
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How the investigation runs
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Portfolio intake
Site list, roof types, and any incoming leak reports set the flight order — known-vulnerable assemblies and occupied-critical buildings first.
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Rapid flight wave
Visual capture documents physical damage — membrane displacement, flashing failure, ponding, debris strikes; thermal flags active moisture entry that hasn't shown inside yet. Multiple sites per crew per day.
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Triage ranking
Every building graded: active entry needing immediate response, damage needing scheduled repair, and clean passes documented as clean — which matters for the claim file too.
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Claim-ready package
Per-building reports with time-stamped, geotagged imagery — formatted for your insurer, your roofing contractor, and your own capital planning, all from one flight wave.
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 fly the portfolio instead of waiting for leak calls?
Because leak calls report ceiling stains, not roof damage — and by the time the stain shows, the insulation is saturated and the claim is bigger. A post-event flight wave finds the breached membrane on the building whose tenants haven't noticed yet. Triage order set by actual damage beats triage order set by who complains loudest.
How fast can you cover a multi-building portfolio?
A flight crew covers multiple commercial roofs per day — a portfolio that would take a roofing contractor weeks to walk gets documented in days, without putting anyone on a storm-damaged membrane. Sequencing is risk-ranked, so your most vulnerable or most critical buildings are documented within the first wave.
Does the documentation help with insurance claims?
Materially. Time-stamped, geotagged imagery captured days after the event establishes what the storm did versus what was pre-existing — the exact dispute that slows claims. Clean-pass documentation on undamaged buildings also protects you when a tenant later attributes an unrelated problem to the storm. Pair with our insurance claim support service for the full file.
Can this run as a standing arrangement rather than one-off?
Yes — portfolio owners and public-sector facility groups increasingly set up event-triggered arrangements: a pre-agreed site list, flight priorities, and rates, activated by a phone call after any qualifying event. The portfolio also gains an annual baseline flight, which makes every post-event comparison sharper.
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