Tiverton drone survey, Devon

Tiverton sits around 12.9 miles from Exeter as the crow flies, and in practice that means practically on our doorstep. The usual way over is the A396 up the Exe valley, or the M5 to Junction 27, which is the route we plan a job around before we ever put a date in the diary.

There's no regional pricing tier for Mid Devon: a Tiverton job in EX16 is quoted exactly the same way as one on the far side of Devon, address and brief only.

Weather decides the flying day for Tiverton the same way it does across Mid Devon: wind, rain and poor light stop a flight, and a reschedule for EX16 costs nothing.

For Tiverton, being further along Devon changes nothing about the registrations carried: CAA operator status, checked in EX16 the same way as an Operator ID and Flyer ID would be anywhere else on the Mid Devon round.

Tiverton itself is best described this way: A medieval and Georgian centre, Victorian mill workers' terraces, extensive post-war estates, and large modern development on the eastern edge of the town. Whatever the EX16 building turns out to be, it's the flight plan for Tiverton that changes, not the aircraft.

Built where the Lowman joins the Exe, on steep-sided ground with the town centre low and residential streets climbing sharply north and west. That's worth knowing before a Tiverton visit, because it decides where the launch point sits in EX16, not whether the job can be done at all. Between Tiverton Castle and Grand Western Canal, Tiverton has enough going on in EX16 that most jobs read as properly local rather than a generic address on a form.

Newer development near Tiverton tends to bring a different brief: snagging evidence inside a builder's defects period, or a chimney and flat-roof check on a EX16 property finished within the last year or two.

Devon covers a lot of ground, and Mid Devon is the slice of it Tiverton sits in, EX16 included. That grouping is mostly for our own planning.

Tiverton is covered as part of the wider Mid Devon area, which includes Cullompton, Crediton and Exeter. That breadth in EX16 is really the point of working from one base rather than several.

If you're in or around Tiverton, EX16 included, send the postcode, the Tiverton job, and a few dates for Mid Devon. That's the quickest way to move a EX16 enquiry on.

Once the Tiverton flying is done, the report follows within 48 hours, whether the job was in EX16 or anywhere else on the Mid Devon round. Same written report, wherever it was flown.

The same run usually takes in Wellington as well, and closer to Tiverton itself, Knightshayes Court and Blundell's School are the kind of landmarks that make an address easy to place before we've even driven out.