How drones are being used by Sky Filming

Roof Inspections

As always it’s great to get some local work, especially at our favourite university, York St John. For this assignment we were tasked to get some aerial shots of some rooflights, skylights, from above a new building, the nicely designed York St John Creative Centre, for the company that installed these special windows that light […]

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It’s always great to be part of projects in our hometown, especially is that place happens to be York, a city full of historical buildings and architecture like The Guildhall. For the last couple of years The Guildhall York has been undergoing renovations, mainly to the roof but also to some new building work on […]

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Roof surveys are a very common use for drones, being ideal for the task and not risking anyone’s safety by having to climb up onto the roof, or pay for costly scaffold or cranes. This drone roof inspection at the Lancashire seaside town of Morecambe was conducted for the landlords of a large building, of […]

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A lot of our work involved flying drones indoors, inside factories and warehouses for corporate videos and internal build progress reports. Roof inspections are usually conducted outside, using drone cameras to zoom in on tiles, slate roofs, aluminum roofing, guttering and other rooftop features. However, on this occasion we were asked to use a drone […]

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Bruntingthorpe is a huge old airfield near Lutterworth in Leicestershire that is now home to a thriving automotive business community, vehicle testing and proving ground and open air aviation museum. All around the airfield runways, now a race track for testing cars and motorbikes, are buildings that house various businesses mostly connected to the automotive […]

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Using drones and camera poles to inspect and survey factory and commercial roofing is probably in our top 5 most undertaken work, and for obvious reasons. It’s very easy to use a drone to photograph and video every inch of a roof and guttering, plus all the details such as chimneys and top hats, flues […]

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Roof inspections and drone roofing, guttering and chimney surveys are among one of our most regular jobs. They offer a cost effective way to assess damage, if there is any damage or not to roof tiles and chimney piles and check out the state of the gutters and look for breaks and blockages at the […]

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Celotex is an insulation product, owned by Saint-Gobain who make glass products such as car windows, and they asked us to use our drones to document the building of a new factory near Eggborough, next to the old power plant, in North Yorkshire. Drone Video and Computer Models It has been a very quick build, […]

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Sky Filming visited a secret location run by DEFRA to carry out a two day roof inspection with Jacobs Engineering. This was quite an unusual project in that the location was top secret and we weren’t allowed to keep any of the photographs or record ourselves taking any photographs or take pictures of ourselves or […]

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