# Drone Chimney Survey > Close-up drone photographs of your chimney stack: pots, flaunching, flashing, brickwork and pointing, taken close enough to read, with a written report within 48 hours. A homeowner with a damp chimney breast, a failed pot or a leaning stack, plus the chimney sweeps and roofers who need eyes on a stack nobody can safely reach. A survey built around the stack itself: pots and cowls, flaunching, flashing and soakers, brickwork and pointing, photographed close enough for a sweep or a roofer to read, with a written report within 48 hours. ## Services - [Chimney Survey](https://drone-chimney-survey.co.uk/services/chimney-survey): Close aerial photographs of a chimney stack, pots and cowls, flaunching, flashing and soakers, brickwork and pointing, taken close enough for a sweep or a roofer to read. - [For Sweeps and Roofers](https://drone-chimney-survey.co.uk/services/for-sweeps-and-roofers): A dated, close photographic record of a stack a client can book directly, or you can send on, so you are quoting or advising from evidence rather than what is visible from the ground. ## Key pages - [Home](https://drone-chimney-survey.co.uk/): Close-up chimney stack surveys, Devon and the South West - [Services](https://drone-chimney-survey.co.uk/services): What Drone Chimney Survey does and what each job includes. - [How it works](https://drone-chimney-survey.co.uk/how-it-works): How a job runs, from the first call to what arrives afterwards. - [Areas covered](https://drone-chimney-survey.co.uk/areas): 25 towns across Devon and the South West. - [About](https://drone-chimney-survey.co.uk/about): Who runs Drone Chimney Survey and how it works. - [Contact](https://drone-chimney-survey.co.uk/contact): How to get in touch and what happens next. ## Other pages - [Common chimney faults](https://drone-chimney-survey.co.uk/common-chimney-faults) ## Areas covered - [Exeter, Devon](https://drone-chimney-survey.co.uk/areas/exeter): A cathedral city of tall Georgian and Victorian stacks over the old central quarters, where narrow streets make scaffolding a real cost before any repair has even been scoped. - [Topsham, Devon](https://drone-chimney-survey.co.uk/areas/topsham): A former port with a tight, listed historic core, where Dutch-influenced gables and lead-detailed stacks take the full run of salt-laden wind up the estuary. - [Exmouth, Devon](https://drone-chimney-survey.co.uk/areas/exmouth): One of the most exposed towns in the region, where Regency and Victorian hillside villas carry rendered stacks worked hard by unbroken salt-laden south-westerlies. - [Sidmouth, Devon](https://drone-chimney-survey.co.uk/areas/sidmouth): An unusually complete Regency seaside core with ornate ironwork and complex roof geometries, where a steep-sided valley funnels turbulent, gusting wind straight at the town's stacks. - [Honiton, Devon](https://drone-chimney-survey.co.uk/areas/honiton): A famously uniform Georgian high street rebuilt after eighteenth century fires, where valley fog keeps stacks damp through the winter behind the Blackdown Hills. - [Ottery St Mary, Devon](https://drone-chimney-survey.co.uk/areas/ottery-st-mary): A compact market town where cob and thatch survive in the lanes behind a Georgian and Victorian church-side frontage, and valley mist keeps shaded stacks slow to dry. - [Crediton, Devon](https://drone-chimney-survey.co.uk/areas/crediton): A long Georgian and Victorian high street between red sandstone hills, where cob and thatch cottages in the lanes take the brunt of open Atlantic weather from the west. - [Tiverton, Devon](https://drone-chimney-survey.co.uk/areas/tiverton): A mill town where Victorian workers' terraces carry tall, shared brick stacks over steep streets, in one of the wettest stretches of the Exe valley. - [Cullompton, Devon](https://drone-chimney-survey.co.uk/areas/cullompton): A Culm valley town where cob and thatch survive along a medieval and Georgian core, holding damp and frost on the valley floor for longer than the surrounding higher ground. - [Tavistock, Devon](https://drone-chimney-survey.co.uk/areas/tavistock): A Victorian stannary town built in green Hurdwick stone on mining wealth, where tall stone stacks on the edge of Dartmoor take some of the wettest weather in the region. - [Okehampton, Devon](https://drone-chimney-survey.co.uk/areas/okehampton): A granite town at Dartmoor's northern foot, among the wettest and windiest in the region, where Victorian terraces sit hard against moorland weather with nowhere to break it. - [Newton Abbot, Devon](https://drone-chimney-survey.co.uk/areas/newton-abbot): A railway-era town with Victorian terraces in large numbers, sitting low on the Teign floodplain where mist off the river keeps shaded stacks holding moss. - [Teignmouth, Devon](https://drone-chimney-survey.co.uk/areas/teignmouth): A resort and working port catching unusual easterly gales up the Channel, where Georgian and Regency front terraces carry stacks built for weather from the wrong direction. - [Dawlish, Devon](https://drone-chimney-survey.co.uk/areas/dawlish): Among the most storm-exposed places on the South Devon coast, where Regency and Victorian terraces around The Lawn sit close to cliff-top bungalow estates taking unbroken wind. - [Torquay, Devon](https://drone-chimney-survey.co.uk/areas/torquay): Grand Victorian and Edwardian villas across seven limestone hills, with elaborate Italianate roofscapes that are as hard to see properly from the street as they are to reach. - [Paignton, Devon](https://drone-chimney-survey.co.uk/areas/paignton): The flat middle of Tor Bay, where Edwardian and inter-war seaside terraces in great number carry plain stacks fully open to easterly weather with no rising ground to break it. - [Brixham, Devon](https://drone-chimney-survey.co.uk/areas/brixham): A working fishing port in a steep bowl around the harbour, the most exposed part of Tor Bay, where tightly packed cottages take wind from every quarter at once. - [Totnes, Devon](https://drone-chimney-survey.co.uk/areas/totnes): A dense medieval and Elizabethan hill town with slate-hung frontages and jettied stacks, where tightly packed historic roofs trap debris in valleys and party-wall abutments. - [Barnstaple, Devon](https://drone-chimney-survey.co.uk/areas/barnstaple): North Devon's main town at the tidal limit of the Taw, where Georgian and Victorian terraces take rainfall driven up the estuary from the open Atlantic with little to break it. - [Ilfracombe, Devon](https://drone-chimney-survey.co.uk/areas/ilfracombe): A dramatic north-coast harbour town of Victorian resort terraces on steep hillside rows, taking full Atlantic exposure where hidden gutters mean trouble often shows inside first. - [Great Torrington, Devon](https://drone-chimney-survey.co.uk/areas/great-torrington): A hilltop town on a bluff above a loop of the Torridge, standing above everything around it, so wind loading on its Georgian and Victorian stacks is high from every direction. - [Launceston, Cornwall](https://drone-chimney-survey.co.uk/areas/launceston): A walled hilltop former county town catching weather off both Bodmin Moor and Dartmoor, where slate-hung stacks on exposed elevations answer to properly wind-driven rain. - [Liskeard, Cornwall](https://drone-chimney-survey.co.uk/areas/liskeard): A former stannary and mining town built on copper and tin wealth, where terraced miners' cottages carry hard-worked slate stacks under rainfall well above the regional average. - [Wellington, Somerset](https://drone-chimney-survey.co.uk/areas/wellington): A Somerset mill town at the foot of the Blackdown Hills, where terraced mill housing carries chimneys built for a working town, and the escarpment above sharply accelerates the wind. - [Chard, Somerset](https://drone-chimney-survey.co.uk/areas/chard): The highest town in Somerset, on a ridge over 120 metres up, where terraced lace-mill housing carries hamstone-bedded stacks exposed to wind from every quarter. ## What is on the record - CAA registered: Operator ID and Flyer ID held, plus the A2 Certificate of Competency. Every survey is planned to the rules that apply to the site, and the paperwork is available before the visit if your sweep, roofer or agent wants it. - 100 megapixel camera: A DJI Mavic 4 Pro with a Hasselblad camera and 6K video, close enough from a safe standoff distance to read a mortar joint or a hairline crack in a flaunching collar without leaning anything on the stack. - Radiometric thermal option: A DJI Mavic 2 Enterprise Advanced carrying a 640 by 512 thermal camera, flown alongside the visual pass where a damp pattern on a stack needs reading against the brickwork around it. - Insured with Coverdrone: Full commercial cover for the operation. Certificates go to sweeps, roofers, letting agents and insurers as a matter of course, without anyone having to chase for them. ## Contact - Phone: 07367 107530 - Email: info@exeterdronesurveys.co.uk - Enquiry form: https://drone-chimney-survey.co.uk/contact - Based in Exeter, covering Devon and the South West ## Optional - [Full text version](https://drone-chimney-survey.co.uk/llms-full.txt): every service, town and question on this site as markdown. - [Sitemap](https://drone-chimney-survey.co.uk/sitemap.xml) - [Privacy](https://drone-chimney-survey.co.uk/privacy) - [Terms](https://drone-chimney-survey.co.uk/terms)