can you please comment my comments for client report. During home inspection, I found some cold points, air leaks etc… Basement corners - 5C (another part -17C) - is it normal? (photo below).
I suppose that there a lot of gaps in isolation. Am I right?
And another point, it was a quite new house (on a warranty), and client asked me what he need to do with this result?
Camera FLIR E5.
I hope to hell you didn’t charge your client for “learning” on their home. IMO, you should never have taken it out of the box outside of your home until properly trained and many hours of practical use! Now you have a situation on your hands that will take another trained Thermographer to handle. The question is: WHO is going to pay his fee?
Your going to get your self in a lot of trouble if you don’t know the answer. Your not a home inspector or a generalist with that thing in your hand. Your the one that is supposed to have the answers.
Alex,
That looks like conduction and air temp differential/leaks without knowing what some of the pictures are.
What the guys mean is that that is pretty basic stuff for a thermographer to understand.
It wouldn’t hurt to get some more training. Try www.infraspection.com
Good luck.
Now that everyones castrated you for asking questions, the simple answer is I don’t see much wrong except normal cold spots in areas where you would expect them. No room is perfect, especially in basements. You need to learn more about how different materials conduct temps.
Been about 5 degrees the last few mornings. A few inches of the white stuff about 5 days ago. A wee bit early to stay this cold for more than a day or two. Usually not till December.
Alex,
My recommendation is to take your camera and image anything and everything in multiple homes. You will start seeing the same areas showing up.When doing most home thermography you are looking at patterns not temperatures so get rid of the temp spot. Thermal conductivity of materials knowledge is crucial when looking at homes as they can explain what you are seeing.
Good luck and keep imaging
As Jeff said take you camera and shoot everything with in reason so as not to mess up your H.I. flow and start to develop a feel for how things look. Do homes of friends and family, pets, barns, go for a walk and look at a river all with your camera then do it some-more at a different time of day. Take more training and enjoy then take more training and enjoy it even more. This is a serious tool and should be treated as such and that is what everyone was saying. Hope you have a good weekend.