Know how the whole estate came through, before you drive up.
A storm comes through on a Tuesday, and you are in the city until Friday. We come out with the drone and look over the house and outbuildings, the trees and grounds, the pond, fences and solar panels. Then we tell you what we found and where, so whoever fixes it can go straight there.
Opening for commercial work in the first quarter of 2027.
What a visit looks at
You tell us which of these to look at, and one visit covers the ones you name. On a working farm, that can be the house, the barns, the pond and the fences.
Buildings
The house and the barns, sheds and garages: roof sheets or shingles lifted or missing, gutters, holes chewed at the eaves by squirrels, and wasp, hornet and bee nests we can see from outside. In winter, where a heated building is losing its heat.
Utilities
The equipment the property runs on: the outdoor units of heat pumps and mini-splits, units on a roof, generators, and well and pool pumps. Thermal shows whether each one is running. We keep clear of the power lines.
Trees and grounds
Trees and limbs down after a storm, trees dying back, and dead or bare patches in the lawn.
Water
The pond and its bank, the culverts under the drive, troughs and tanks, and ground that stays wet after rain.
Fences
Paddock and board fences and the gates in them: a tree down across a line, a span down, a gate left open.
Solar
Panels on a roof or on the ground: one running warm, one that has stopped, glass that is cracked, dirty or in shade.
Some are services of their own too, if one is all you need:
What a visit is for
After a storm
We fly the property and tell you what we found and where: a limb across the paddock fence, a roof sheet lifted on the barn, brush in the culvert under the drive. After the first walk of the property, you don't need to be there.
Wear that builds slowly
A blocked gutter, or a hole squirrels have chewed at the eaves. A visit on a schedule looks for both. Home insurance often won't pay for wear, or for what rodents chew.
While you're away
A visit looks over the outside of the place. When it finds nothing, the report says so and names anything we couldn't see, so you know what to look at yourself on your next trip up.
How a visit works
Tell us what to look at
Which buildings and heat pumps, which trees, which water, which fences and panels. After a storm, before you open the house for the season, or on a schedule.
Who comes out
We come out from Ghent and fly the visit ourselves. The first time, we walk the property with you or your caretaker. After that, nobody needs to be home when we fly.
A person answers it
A person here answers for each place we looked at and for the grounds as a whole. Nothing the models find reaches you until that person has released the report.
One report
A section for each thing you asked us to look at, each with its answer: what we found, nothing found, or that we couldn't see it.
You send it on
The spots copy as a list, with a map link for each, to send to your caretaker or whoever is fixing it.
Kept with the last one
Each visit is kept beside the ones before it, so you and your insurer can see what changed.
Our own place first, what we can't see, and photos of your home
Our own place first
Our home at Three Waters Farm is an estate as well as a farm, and every check on this page is flown there before we offer it for yours.
What a drone can't see
We look from above and from outside. We can't see inside a wall or under a roof's deck, and your roofer, electrician or technician confirms a fault before anything is replaced.
Photos of your home
We fly to look at buildings and grounds, not at people, and our models don't look for people. If someone in a photo asks us to, we delete that photo. If you ask, we delete all of your property's imagery, the copies that train our models included. Neither covers a photo we're required to keep, or a copy someone has already saved. A model that has already learned from a photo keeps what it learned, and the Privacy Policy has the rest.
What a visit gets you
What you get
| The report | A section for each thing we looked at, each with its own answer, and a close photo and a thermal photo of anything we found |
| What a finding says | In words: Roof sheet lifted, Gutter, Animal damage, Wasp or bee nest, Unit off, Heat loss, Tree down, Dead lawn, Bank seeping, Culvert blocked, Tree on the fence, Gate open, Panel off and the rest |
| How it reaches you | An email tells you when the report is ready and what was found. It is kept with the property's previous visits. |
| When | After a storm, before you open the house for the season, or on a schedule |
| The aircraft | The Matrice 30T or the Matrice 4TD, brought out to your property and launched by hand, or the 4TD from a dock on our truck. Both carry zoom and thermal. |
| At the site | We keep clear of people, animals and the power lines to your buildings. Tell us about horses that spook easily, and we plan the flight around them. |