An infrared camera does not detect moisture. It does, however, detect the thermal differences in a material when moisture is present. When our infrared camera reveals a suspect area, we use a moisture meter, or other investigative methods or tools, to either verify that moisture is indeed present or conclude that invasive investigation in the suspect area is necessary.

We have had much success in identifying wet or moisture-damaged areas that would have otherwise been completely hidden during a standard visual inspection. Our equipment is fluke new Fusion IR cameras just realed early 2008 giving our reports the ability to add inspection photos directly.

Have us scan your electrical system thermally as part of your routine building maintenance!

Have you ever had a mysterious leak that you knew was causing greater and greater damage by the day, but that you could not find? Have you stayed up late at night to remove tiles from the shower surround, cut open holes in the walls of adjacent rooms, removed plumbing fixtures, and used various other destructive investigative methods to find the leak? If you eventually found the leak, you are one of the lucky few. Most of us are left with a lot of destruction and never finding the source of the leak.

You have two options. You can call a plumber to open walls and trace the leak. Or, you can have your walls thermal-scanned to look for the leak non-invasively and retested with our moisture detection equipment. We have helped many clients narrow down, if not pinpoint, the most likely origin of these mystery leaks by scanning for thermal differences between wet and dry areas and have saved our clients a lot of time and money in wall patching. Futhermore, thermal scanning will identify other wet areas caused by the leak and should be promptly remedied.

Blockages in plumbing pipes are similarly found because the blocked areas show a different thermal signature from the clear areas of the pipe. 
 
Insulation and heat loss survey

With energy costs rising, it behooves homeowners to ensure that they are not paying good money to heat their yards! Included as part of our energy evaluation inspection, thermal scanning is used to reveal areas of missing or wet insulation, and identify key areas of heat loss. 
 
 
Identifying location of wall studs and radiant heating tubes
 

Thermal scanning of floors to identify the location of radiant heating tubes has helped clients reduce risk of puncturing a tube, a costly error, during remodeling projects.