CAA Authorised Operator (OA UAS 14429) & GVC Certified
Greenhouse & Polytunnel Shading Removal Services for Southern England
End-of-season shading removal by drone for greenhouses and polytunnels across Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon, Dorset and Hampshire. Your own coating manufacturer's remover flown over the whole structure in a day instead of a fortnight - the same dose on every square metre, up to 5x faster than a manual crew, and nobody standing on your glass.
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KEY ADVANTAGES
One day
We can typically cover your entire site in a single day of work.
Nobody on the roof
No ladders, no scaffold tower, no staff working near fragile glass or film.
5x Faster
Than manual methods, across the whole structure.
Every m²
Mapped flight lines put the same dose on every square metre of roof.
Reviews
Yard House Plants
16,000 m² of glass covered
"Very professional service. What would have taken us weeks, the drone did in a day."
Rowan Duckworth
Digital Services Specialist - Hutchinsons
"The drone completed a hectare in under a minute - it was amazing to watch. It's an impressive bit of kit."
David Brookfield
Estate Manager - Furzebrook Estate (300 acres)
"Drone Spraying UK provided an excellent solution, allowing us to complete job requirements in record time."
With over 1,000 hectares covered in 2026, we’ve worked with small nurseries all the way to national corporations to deliver reliable and professional drone services for growers - we’re here to help.
Matthew Jones
Director & Co-Founder
Pricing & How it works
01
Consultation (£0)
We learn about your specific situation.
We’ll find out how our drones can impact your operation either by visiting you directly or via a phone call.
02
Site Inspection (£0)
We inspect your site to plan in more detail.
We’ll estimate your project's time and resource requirements and work with you to schedule the work.
03
Quote (£0.15/m)
We charge £0.15 per meter.
Large job discounts are available, and our quote will always fairly reflect your expected return on investment.
04
Service Delivery
Finally, we’ll deliver the service.
We'll work hard to make sure you get the ROI promised. You'll also get full digital coverage maps for your records.
Removing shading from your greenhouses or polytunnels is much safer and efficient than traditional manual methods
It's the same playbook you're already used to - your own manufacturer's shading remover, onto the roof, at the rate they specify. The difference is where it's applied from. We fly mapped lines above the structure, so every square metre gets the same dose instead of whatever the crew managed to reach. Same product you'd be using anyway, just put on far more evenly. Here's what that means on your site.
Nobody goes on the roof. The aircraft flies above the structure and never touches it. No ladder, no scaffold tower, no roof access risk assessment - because there's no roof access. A slip and a boot through a pane aren't made less likely, they stop being possible.
The lines are flown to a map, not eyeballed. We plan them over your roof outline before we start and the aircraft holds them. Every square metre gets the same dose because that's how the machine works - not because somebody was still being careful at four o'clock on the second Friday.
Your operation carries on underneath. Nothing shuts down, nothing gets moved, and your staff keep doing their own jobs while we're overhead.
What taking shading off by hand actually costs you
1. Two people, a fortnight, and a tower
The Challenge: You already know how the job goes by hand. A crew works along the roof bay by bay, and on a site of any size that's weeks of labour - every hour of it your own people pulled off the work you actually employ them to do.
The Solution: We fly the whole structure instead. Several hectares of glass in a working day, up to 5x faster than manual methods, with your team on the ground doing their normal work. You give up one day, not a fortnight.
2. Your people on fragile glass
The Challenge: Working at height on glass or polythene is the biggest single liability on a nursery. One slip is a life-changing injury, an HSE investigation, and an insurance conversation you don't want to have.
The Solution: Nothing we operate touches your structure and nobody goes on it. Our public liability cover note is with you before we fly. The risk isn't managed with a harness and a method statement - it's removed, because there is nobody up there.
3. Waiting for the weather to take it off
The Challenge: Leave a removable coating to weather off and it goes patchy - exposed ridges clear first, sheltered bays hold it for weeks. Your light comes back unevenly, and it comes back late, just as day length is falling away.
The Solution: A removal pass takes it off on your schedule instead of the weather's. The remover goes on at the rate your coating manufacturer specifies, evenly, over the whole roof - so the light comes back across the whole site at once.
4. No record of what was actually done
The Challenge: When the far end of the site gets finished last thing on a Friday, you've no record of what went on, at what rate, or whether the last three bays were done properly at all barring getting up there yourself with a ladder.
The Solution: You get aerial imagery of the finished roof and an application record sheet - date, product, rate, area, wind and operator - in a form your assurance auditor will accept. If the imagery shows a missed area, we re-fly it free.
What's included, and what you're left with when we drive off
- A free coverage survey and area calculation from your site boundary or postcode - we don't need to visit to give you a price.
- Your coating manufacturer's own remover, applied at the rate they specify. Whichever system you already run.
- The agreed area flown to mapped lines, the same dose on every square metre.
- Aerial imagery of the completed roof, sent to you, so you can check the far end yourself.
- An application record sheet - date, product, rate, area, wind, operator - ready for your assurance audit.
The first step is four lines in an email: your site postcode, a rough roof area in m², the coating brand if you know it, and when you need it off by. We'll get back to you without delay with a fixed price and the first date we can fly it. Email us those four things - or call us on 07979 896230.
Fully Compliant, Fully Insured, Fully Professional.
We fly removal passes across Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon, Dorset and Hampshire under full CAA authorisation, and we handle the compliance paperwork for the flight so you don't have to.
CAA & GVC Certified Pilots
Public Liability insurance coverage.
Special Operations Risk Assessment (SORA) Holder.
10+ years experience flying drones.
HSE Compliant with all aerial spraying regulations.
We handle compliance for you.
Frequently Asked Questions
Serving growers across these counties
Book your removal day before the light goes
Remove your shading safely and efficiently this autumn. Send us your site postcode and a rough roof area and we'll come back to you without delay with a fixed price and the first date we can fly it.
Please email us the details of your project and we'll get back to you without delay.
info@drone-spraying.co.uk
Or give Ben, our Managing Director, a call on: