Roof Measuring Rones

Step 2 getting some practice.

Roof measuring rones.

For help determining the area of a sloped roof see here. The first thing you need to do is download and install google earth pro. Simply put combining high resolution drone imagery with a powerful roof measurement application i e. It is amazingly convenient to fly a drone with gps.

When you let go of the controls it should stay pretty much where you left it. The length l times the height h of a triangle is twice its area a2. The first of which is that you don t even have to go up on the roof. So if you divide your answer of a product of length times height by two you will get the area of a triangle.

Roof reports and wall reports made easy. So you just purchased a 3 500 inspire drone and are excited to inspect your first roof with it. Within hours the completed project is uploaded into your roofsnap account. And even flat roofs usually have a little bit of a slope so you might want to use a roof pitch multiplier once you have your area figured out 1.

It is often compared to slope but is not exactly the same. 1 roof square 100 square feet. L h 2 area calculating an area of a triangle when estimating a roof. Roof pitch is the measurement of a roof s vertical rise divided by its horizontal run.

The next step is to measure the pitch also referred to as the roof slope of the roof deck. You ll need to figure out the vertical distance also known as the rise over a 12 horizontal segment also known as the run. Record these values as roof rise over run with the vertical measurement listed first and the horizontal second. We ll use satellite imagery and trigonometry to calculate your roof s measurements.

Allowing increased safety higher accuracy less headaches and the type of modern presentation clients now expect. This makes flying easier and allows you to spot trouble areas on the roof. The rising popularity of drones in the roofing industry is no accident. There are many great benefits to using google earth to measure your roof but nothing is as good as using diy s satellite roof measurement.

You can order roof measurements from roofsnap and our sketchos technicians will create the measurement diagram for you. Use the ez3d drone app to quickly photograph any building inspect the roof and create 99 accurate measurements for estimates. This can make it even safer to do your measuring and it also removes a level of guessing to your calculation. The sketch is a dynamic fully editable drawing that you can customize with inspection photos and notes and use to create an estimate in roofsnap.