Performing an energy efficiency scan during your infrared thermal inspection can save you money by targetting areas of your home to improve insulation, replace windows, or other updates. In these times of high energy bills, you want your home's energy consumption to be as efficient as possible, but loss of heat and cooling can mean a significant loss of efficiency and wasted money.

Conditioned air (either heated or cooled) flowing from your home through unseen cracks or poorly insulated cavities costs you money every day.

Insight Thermal Diagnostics performs non-invasive infrared thermal imaging scans that measures the energy efficiency of your home, including surface temperatures and variations. The thermal imaging scan can reveal energy losses through:

Most of these issues are repairable (some are even cheap to fix!), but you can only fix them if you know they exist.

Our Thermal Diagnostic report will document our findings and our evaluation of each problem. Each report includes natural and infrared photographs wherever necessary to demonstrate our findings.

Our non destructive approach saves time, energy, and money.

Our Thermal Diagnostics Survey report will document the issues we find and our evaluation of each problem. The report will include natural and infrared photographs where necessary to demonstrate our energy efficiency findings

Examples from Energy Efficiency Scans in Chicago homes:

The following is an image of missing attic insulation:

The purple color signature in the above thermogram clearly shows missing attic insulation. The client also had an issue with water dripping from the drywall ceiling in the same area. Infrared thermal imaging revealed the missing insulation, and the dripping moisture was caused by excessive home humidity contacting the very cold ceiling drywall. To make matters worse, an inspection of the ceiling in the attic revealed mold infestation at that location. All of this damage and expense was caused by a section of missing insulation.

This thermogram shows dark blue thermal signatures indicating improperly installed or missing insulation, which is a primary cause of poor energy efficiency in homes.

While wood is one of the best natural insulators when compared with a typical 2x framed wall construction, even small log homes have several thousand feet of wood-to-wood joinery that must be carefully designed to ensure energy efficiency. This thermogram shows cold air infiltration between the logs and conventional interior surfaces, which should be improved.

The following image shows a large section of missing insulation in a wall cavity: