Thermographic Test (Infrared Inspection) & Home Insulation

Thermographic tests are used in professional home energy audits. They generate a set of images of the home’s walls and structures, to determine insulation gaps and insufficiencies.

Thermograph

Energy auditors use infrared inspections (thermography) to detect and assess home’s heat losses and air leaks associated with insulation (or lack of it, to be more precise). The main use of thermographic scans is typically to check the effectiveness of the installed insulation, or, in other words, to determine the insulation levels, and the walls or parts of the house where it should be added.

Home audits, existing buildings and new homes

Thermographic inspections are often used in existing buildings, during professional energy audits. But you may also demand a thermographic inspection when buying a new home, since new houses aren’t immune to gaps and insufficiencies in their insulation.

Interior thermographic inspections

Most thermographic inspections are interior ones, that is, they fall upon interior walls and interior parts of the house. These inspections are more accurate, than exterior ones.

Infrared video (or still cameras)

Thermography uses infrared video and cameras to make images showing the situation of the walls, roof (to detect roof leaks) and electric systems and their connections.