Inspecting homes can be difficult without a thermal image since your eyes are restricted to certain elements. However, with the use of thermal imaging home inspection, you can see items that affect the home appliances that are under inspection.
Thermal imaging is equipment that helps convert infrared radiation to visible images, therefore, portray the spatial flow of temperature differences. It is usually viewed with a thermal camera, which allows you to inspect, and evaluate equipment status and scheduled maintenance that can be carried out regularly, and timely.
All this said, home thermal imaging helps in spotting potential problems, current problems and can help prevent and maintain home and home appliances.
Here is how thermal imaging helps prevent and maintain home appliances.
With thermal imaging, you can regularly check the temperature level, and heat of some home appliances while inspecting the home, making it possible and easy for you to monitor the operating status of the appliances; thereby notifying you once there are any defects, otherwise, it might lead to the breakdown of that appliance.
Thermal imaging helps in pinpointing the occurrence of loss of energy in a building.
It detects areas where the insulation contractor has failed to insulate adequately, while it also locates any moisture in walls and ceilings such as water damages, leakages.
Another major thing thermal imaging helps prevent is the destruction of wood by activities from insects. The thermal imaging can depict active termite activity thereby drawing your attention to the harmful activity of the insect to your wood. Using thermal imaging, your home electrical system can be placed under check. Simply because the thermal imaging will easily detect any overheated pockets. “Your electrical system should maintain a relatively stable temperature.” With thermal imaging; you can easily identify rising problems and take necessary steps to prevent them.
Application Of Thermal Image To Home Inspection
Though useful to home inspection, it is however not invented solely for home inspection purposes. Therefore, to enjoy its functions while inspecting, there are some things you need to apply during use. These include:
Measure And Oversee The Temperature Of The Appliance To Be Inspected: Before going deep into inspecting the home, it is essential you know the general temperature level of the home. Thermal imaging generally detects any temperature change.
Distinguish The Hot Spots In Home Appliance Under Inspection: Identifying what part of the home is normally expected to be hot, places like the kitchen, furnace, among others. Such places temperature levels are bound to be different from the rest of the spots in the home.
Specify The Crack Or Leak In Any Sealed Part Of The Home: While using thermal imaging, some leaks, and cracks are visible. You should specify them before going on with the inspection.
Discover The Impaired Insulation Pipes: Once the thermal imaging signals a change in temperature around a particular insulation, the inspector should identify the cause of the change in temperature.
Pinpoint Any Fuse That Is Near The Current Rated Capacity: Identifying fuses that are close to reaching the peak of their rated capacity.
Monitor The Temperature Reading Process: The thermal imaging as earlier said, works majorly on change in temperature and heat. Hence, the home inspector should regularly monitor the temperature read by the thermal imaging.
