Using a 4K Mavic Pro drone to diagnose roof damage
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- Опубликовано: 3 апр 2018
- Okay, okay. We get it. Drones are fun. You can use them to make pretty videos with jazzy music. That’s nice. But what about using drones to do some real work?
Welcome to the latest installment of ZDNet's DIY-IT Drone and Robotics Discovery Series. This video explores how to use a drone to help with building maintenance.
For more information, see the accompanying article:
www.zdnet.com/article/using-a...
It's part of ZDNet's DIY-IT Drone and Robotics Discovery Series at:
www.zdnet.com/blog/diy-it/
Special thanks to Wellbots for providing the DJI Mavic Pro used in this series:
www.wellbots.com/brands/DJI.html 
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Thanks for the video. You are a very brave man. On our coldest winter night. possibly once a year, we might get near that cold at 3-4am to that temperature!!!!! So thanks again for sharing👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
It's not bad here in Oregon. I grew up in New Jersey and went to engineering school in Massachusetts. THAT was cold.
I want to say thank you and great job for this video! I currently have a company called MC aerial photography LLC I am licensed and insured. Roof inspections is a large part of where I would like to see my business go and with the way you near rated this video with such professionalism and consistency I really felt that I could really apply what I’ve always been drawn to say about using inspection. Thank you again for this video.
B Drones did you ever check into it? I have two Mavic Pro’s and I really would love to make a living off my drones.
That was a cool use for the drone. My cousin might be able to use a drone in his line of work. Thanks for the idea.
I am from that area too!! I love it
great video
i use a drone for this all the time and its a life saver :)
Hey sweet channel ☺ Keep it up!
Excellent work, congratulations!
I need to take exact measurements of the roof, to be able to buy exactly the material needed
My question is: which Drone do you recommend for these jobs?
Love the music
Nicely done, David. I especially liked the animated graphics showing the possible leak path from your stove top thru the roof vent. Of course, I enjoyed the drone video as well.
Awesome! You noticed. That was my first attempt at that sort of animation in one of my videos. I was pretty happy with it.
@@AdvancedGeekery what animation software did you use?
@@lpkepic I just did it in Final Cut. Created little sprites and moved them around. Nothing special, no plugins or features. Just set a frame, placed an object, moved a bunch of frames later, set a location. Rinse, wash, repeat.
The most common cause for drips like this in cold weather is condensation inside the vent duct from your range hood.
Great video! This is better than the videos made by actual roof inspectors. I'm a home inspector and looking into purchasing a Mavic drone. I was considering the Mavic 2 zoom but it looks like it's not necessary to take closer video and photos. Would you recommend spending the extra $400 for the zoom or will the Mavic Pro do just fine?
I would think that would depend on your skill as a pilot. :) Seriously, though, if you film in 4K and then zoom in on post production, you should do pretty well. All the images I show were with the basic Mavic, not even the 2.
@@AdvancedGeekery Thank you, I got the Mavic pro and loving it
Hey David, Andy up here in Olympia, WA. Howdy neighbor! I am a home inspector and have been wanting to get a drone for ages now and am finally going to pull the trigger. Your video was the icing on the cake for me. Great tool for safety's sake. I am really curious where the leak came from?? Was it in the flashing boot?? I didn't see anything too horrible from the video. I was curious if maybe it was condensation related? Finally, what program did you use to create the exhaust flue graphics? That was awesome! You are very creative..and talented!
We actually looked in Olympia. I really like that area. So the leak was condensation inside the roof. The handyman wrapped the pipe itself and that stopped the leak. I thought it was going to be the flashing, but he climbed up into the attic and found it. I used Final Cut Pro X and PowerPoint to do the animations. I took a photo of the stove and traced over it using PowerPoint's drawing tools (which I know real well, given how many thousands of PowerPoints I've done). I then took those and imported them into Final Cut.
As for the drone, a property manager friend of mine recently asked about it, and here's the list of notes I sent her in an email. Might help you, too:
- You must register your drone (it's easy, see this). Please go through this process. The fines for unregistered drones are scary high and it's a five minute task.
- You must get a drone pilot's license if you fly a drone commercially. So, for example, if you charge your clients for drone inspections, you must get a license. That's a LOT of work. Basically, you can use it as a tool for yourself, but don't bill for it. Again big ass fines. I do not have a drone license, although if I get the time, it might be worth getting.
- There are a lot of locations where flying is restricted without notifying the local airport. The problem is that many of the local airports are impossible to notify. I use an app called Hover to tell me where it's safe to fly.
- Do not try to overfly a house until you've taken your drone to a park that isn't in a restricted area and practiced a ton of times. Then practice over a few 1-story homes. The overfly I did of my house was after about 20 drone flights and I was still nervous because it was hard to gauge where the drone was.
- My personal experience is that I screwed up a lot in the early flights. I thought this thing would be a toy and it wasn't. It's an actual aircraft. On the other hand, it's kind of fun and if you get into it, might have tons of potential.
Good luck and if you do neat stuff with drones, tell us about it.
Just a note, using a drone for any commercial purpose requires a FAA part 107 license. It costs $150 to take the test and they give you 90 minutes to complete it. If you don't have aviation experience the test can be challenging. I conduct inspections and the service that brokers me out requires a 2 million dollar insurance policy. The fines for using a drone without the proper license can be pretty substantial but the rewards for being licensed far outweigh the time and price on getting the certification. More info here: www.faa.gov/uas/getting_started/part_107/remote_pilot_cert/
Yeah, I'm thinking about it for myself (and to write about). I'd like to learn more about flying and doing it right. We'll see. If I get time, I will.
Hi which Mavic did you use? Thanks for the video
Original Mavic Pro
Do you need licence in UK to fly this. Also can your neighbors complain if you launch your from from your backyard to inspect your roof.
Do you charge extra for using your drone in an inspection?
I don't charge anything. I'm also not a professional building inspector. More to the point, the FAA in the US requires a drone pilot's license for anyone doing commercial drone work. I don't have that. I'm registered with the FAA, but only for non-commercial educational flying. If you want to use your drone as a surcharge for inspections, it might fly -- but get a license first.
Lol watching this drinking kcup coffee out of a Montréal been there mug
:)
Do you fly only in a no-wind environment?.
The vendors list the wind-level limits for each of their drones, but I try to fly in as little wind as possible.
is it ok if i use some of those drone shots for a short video?
Yes any of the landscape shots. Please don't use any of my furry face, though. And big thanks for asking!
Advanced Geekery Awesome! Thank you and no problem I always ask before bc it’s the right thing to do.
Are you sure that wasn't a plumbing vent stack?
Nope. But the landlord's handyman was pretty sure. Don't live there anymore, so not my problem anymore (yay!).