Bridport drone survey, Dorset

From our base in Exeter it's roughly 34.0 miles out to Bridport, well outside the city but still a normal booking. We'd normally get there via the A35, most of the way along the Dorset coast road, and that's the road the drone, the cases and the rest of the kit travel down whenever a job in the DT6 area comes in.

The 34.0-mile trip to Bridport is simply part of the working day rather than a billable extra, so DT6 customers see one fixed price, not a quote plus a travel line.

Because Bridport is close to base, moving a DT6 date for weather doesn't unravel the rest of the day the way it might further out in Dorset. Rescheduling stays routine.

The same registrations apply in Bridport as everywhere else we fly: CAA registered operator, Operator ID and Flyer ID on record, cover with Coverdrone for the DT6 commercial work.

The property stock in Bridport runs like this: Unusually wide Georgian streets laid out for rope walks, brick and rendered frontages, terraced cottages in the side lanes, and post-war and modern housing towards West Bay and Bothenhampton. Different DT6 roofs need different flight lines, but a Bridport survey works the same way whichever one is in front of us.

The ground itself, around Bridport: A rope-making town a mile and a half inland from West Bay, in a valley between high greensand hills, with Colmers Hill and the Jurassic cliffs close by. That shapes where the drone can launch from in DT6 as much as anything else, sorted before the surveyor turns up rather than worked out on the day. Between Bridport rope walks and West Bay harbour, Bridport has enough going on in DT6 that most jobs read as properly local rather than a generic address on a form.

Older buildings around Bridport are usually a roof condition job first, with leak tracing brought in separately if there's already water coming through somewhere in DT6 and nobody has found where yet.

Bridport sits within West Dorset, Dorset, which is how we group the round internally as much as how the DT6 postcode reads on an envelope.

Because Bridport sits inside DT6, it's grouped with the rest of West Dorset, which usually means Lyme Regis, Dorchester and Weymouth get covered on the same run out from Exeter rather than a separate visit.

If you're in or around Bridport, DT6 included, send the postcode, the Bridport job, and a few dates for West Dorset. That's the quickest way to move a DT6 enquiry on.

A Bridport report is written up the same way as any other DT6 job: within 48 hours, describing what the flight over West Dorset actually found.

The same run usually takes in Chard as well, and closer to Bridport itself, Colmers Hill and Jurassic Coast cliffs are the kind of landmarks that make an address easy to place before we've even driven out.