What we cover in Island Bay.
Aerial Assess provides roof inspections and assessments across all of Island Bay, from the coastline up through The Parade and the streets climbing toward Berhampore. We come out, look at the visible and accessible roof areas, use drone access where it's safe and permitted for anything too steep or too high to reach safely, and send you a plain-language written assessment letter.
Island Bay's defining feature for roofing is the coast. Salt-laden air drifts inland from the south coast and works on metal roofs, fixings and flashings every day. The closer the property is to the beach, the more pronounced this gets. None of that means an Island Bay roof is automatically a problem, plenty of them are in great condition, but the wear pattern is different from the inner suburbs and that's what we look for.
We've worked across Wellington's roofs for years, long-run metal, tile, decramastic and membrane, including plenty of coastal jobs. On the coast that background pays off: we can tell salt-driven cosmetic wear from salt-driven structural wear, and tell when a membrane section is tired versus just UV-tanned on the surface.
What we typically find on Island Bay roofs
- Coastal corrosion on coated metal roofs, particularly on weather-facing southern slopes and at cut edges, laps, and fastener heads.
- Rusting fixings and fasteners, especially where galvanised rather than stainless was used on a coastal property.
- Salt-driven edge wear on long-run metal where the coating thins at folds and laps.
- Decramastic stone-chip loss on the 70s-90s homes, accelerated by salt and wind on weather-facing slopes.
- Aged ridge cap pointing on the older tile and concrete tile homes in the suburb.
- Flashing fatigue around chimneys, dormers and roof penetrations, particularly the metal flashings that take the salt-air hit hardest.
- Membrane condition on small flat-roof sections over rear extensions and decks, which can suffer UV plus salt exposure on south-facing additions.
What Island Bay building reports tend to miss: Many Island Bay properties have older roofs that haven't been re-coated or replaced in decades, plus coastal-corrosion wear that's hard to see from ground level. If your building report says "the roof was not accessed" or "we recommend a roofer assess the roof", a coastal-aware inspection is exactly what's needed.