East Coast Home Inspection Ltd
(506) 651-9461
Thermal Imaging
Our Infrared Home Inspection allows you to get more detailed information about the home you own or the home you are looking to buy. An Infrared Home Inspection can reveal many hidden issues in a home that would not normally be visible to the naked eye.
An Infrared Home Inspection can be used to detect hidden water problems, missing or failing insulation, areas of energy loss, and much more. Our professional, industry certified services will provide you with the information you need to make educated decisions about the condition of your home and its systems. Whether you are concerned about wasted high energy costs, leaks, moisture, or smells. An Infrared Home Inspection can help.
Thermal imaging scans can easily verify insulation inside walls and ceilings. The camera will reveal where there is missing, settled, or wet and damaged insulation. As an added benefit, when I scan your home, we can also identify where cold air is coming through your walls.
Homeowners now understand the importance of infrared home inspection. From seeing what you are getting in a new home purchase, pre-post renovations, to finding current home problems in making corrective action determinations and cost decisions, to knowing how and where you need to make improvements in cutting down your energy bills making your home as efficient as possible. Realizing that infrared can do this for you and show you the actual images of exactly where you need to spend money and resources make an infrared home inspection very appealing to knowledgeable homeowners.
Our Infrared Home Inspection offers advantages to you over typical inspectors who lack my Infrared Thermal Imaging Technology and Training. In fact, less than five percent of home inspectors even use Infrared technology. It gives us more clues to your home's envelope and system and the more information the better when determining defects.
Nearly everything gets hot before it fails, making infrared inspections extremely cost-effective, valuable diagnostic tools in numerous applications. With the high cost of energy today, homeowners and small business' should also use Infrared Imaging for energy savings, moisture detection (leading to mould in some cases), and especially for electrical panel inspections that can detect potential fire hazards from bad connections, overloaded circuits and more.
The benefits to you? An infrared thermal imaging inspection can identify and document:
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Energy loss and efficiency
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Unknown plumbing leaks
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Hidden roof leaks before they cause serious damage
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Electrical faults before they cause a fire
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Overloaded and undersized circuits
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Circuit breakers in need of immediate replacement
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Missing, damaged, and/or wet insulation
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Heat loss and air infiltration in walls, ceilings, floors, windows and doors
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Water and moisture intrusion that could lead to mould
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Possible rodent or pest infestation
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Air conditioner compressor leaks
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Under fastening and/or missing framing members
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Structural defects
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Broken seals in double pane windows
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Dangerous fluid leaks
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Damaged and/or malfunctioning radiant heating systems
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Overheated equipment