Sidmouth drone survey, Devon

We measure Sidmouth at close to 13.1 miles from Exeter, reached by the A3052 out past Sidmouth Road. That puts it practically on our doorstep, and it's one of the journeys built into how we plan a week's work rather than something we treat as a one-off.

The 13.1-mile trip to Sidmouth is simply part of the working day rather than a billable extra, so EX10 customers see one fixed price, not a quote plus a travel line.

The same weather rules apply in Sidmouth as anywhere on the East Devon round: a flight gets pushed back for wind or rain, and it's treated as normal, not a cancellation.

A Sidmouth flight in EX10 carries the same CAA registration and Coverdrone cover as a job in Exeter itself, checked before the aircraft leaves the case, whatever East Devon it's flying over.

Sidmouth itself is best described this way: An unusually complete Regency and early Victorian core with rendered and painted elevations, ornate ironwork and complex roof geometries, plus later villas up the valley sides and post-war housing at Sidford and Sidbury. Whatever the EX10 building turns out to be, it's the flight plan for Sidmouth that changes, not the aircraft.

A Regency seaside town in a steep-sided valley at the mouth of the Sid, hemmed in by Peak Hill to the west and Salcombe Hill to the east, both rising to well over 150 metres. That's worth knowing before a Sidmouth visit, because it decides where the launch point sits in EX10, not whether the job can be done at all. Between Sidmouth Esplanade and Connaught Gardens, Sidmouth has enough going on in EX10 that most jobs read as properly local rather than a generic address on a form.

On a Sidmouth property mix like this, a roof survey covers most of what EX10 customers actually ask for, with a thermal check called in wherever heat loss is the real question.

Devon covers a lot of ground, and East Devon is the slice of it Sidmouth sits in, EX10 included. That grouping is mostly for our own planning.

Sidmouth is not a one-off EX10 booking for us, it's part of the East Devon round alongside Budleigh Salterton, Ottery St Mary and Honiton, often flown on the same Sidmouth trip as one of those.

The form on this site asks for a EX10 postcode, a job, and the dates in mind for Sidmouth. That's all we need to check the diary and come back with a fixed price.

The report for a EX10 job doesn't vary by distance from Exeter: written within 48 hours, covering what was actually seen at the Sidmouth address on the day.

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