Chard drone survey, Somerset

Chard is about 27.2 miles from Exeter down the A30 and then the A358 south into Somerset. It's a comfortable run out from Exeter for us, and the TA20 postcode area is a normal part of the diary rather than an exception.

One surveyor, one aircraft, one van working Somerset and the wider South West, so a Chard booking in TA20 never needs a separate travel charge added to the fixed price.

Wind, rain and poor light stop a Chard flight the same as they would in Exeter itself. A TA20 reschedule is planned around the forecast, never around a long drive.

Nothing about Somerset distance changes the paperwork for Chard. The same CAA registration, insurance with Coverdrone and A2 Certificate of Competency apply in TA20 as at our own front door.

Chard itself is best described this way: A long Georgian and Victorian high street with hamstone and rendered frontages, terraced lace-mill housing, and extensive post-war and modern estates on the lower slopes. Whatever the TA20 building turns out to be, it's the flight plan for Chard that changes, not the aircraft.

The highest town in Somerset, on a ridge above the Axe and Isle valleys, notable for streams either side of the main street running to opposite coasts. That's worth knowing before a Chard visit, because it decides where the launch point sits in TA20, not whether the job can be done at all. Between Chard Museum and Chard Reservoir, Chard has enough going on in TA20 that most jobs read as properly local rather than a generic address on a form.

Older buildings around Chard are usually a roof condition job first, with leak tracing brought in separately if there's already water coming through somewhere in TA20 and nobody has found where yet.

Chard and its TA20 postcode sit inside South Somerset, one of several groupings across Somerset that decide which jobs get planned into the same working week.

Chard is covered as part of the wider South Somerset area, which includes Axminster, Taunton and Yeovil. That breadth in TA20 is really the point of working from one base rather than several.

The form on this site asks for a TA20 postcode, a job, and the dates in mind for Chard. That's all we need to check the diary and come back with a fixed price.

Once the Chard flying is done, the report follows within 48 hours, whether the job was in TA20 or anywhere else on the South Somerset round. Same written report, wherever it was flown.

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