SacPro Home Inspection offers affordable thermal imaging during home inspections. Home buyers who have had thermal imaging during their our home inspection say they’ll never buy a home without doing thermal imaging, and it allows them to use the scientific results for their negotiations with the home seller.
Thermal imaging sees what the eye cannot. Did that crack or missing caulking allow water into the walls and is there some organism growing? Is an outlet or circuit breaker overheating? Better to figure it all out now, before buying the home, than be caught by surprise years later when it hurts their pocketbook and maybe even their health.
Thermal imaging cameras work by detecting heat signatures and displaying them as a color gradient scale, with lighter colors signifying areas that are more hot while darker colors signify cooler areas.
Unlike visible light, which is the reflection of wavelengths of light off an object, infrared comes directly from the image source as an emission. This allows IR cameras to function in ways that traditional visible light cameras (and the eye) cannot.
Infrared thermography (IRT) is the science used to capture and process thermal information using non-contact measurement tools. This is done by analyzing infrared (IR) radiation emitted from an object whose temperature is above absolute zero. Because this wavelength exists outside of the visible spectrum of light, infrared measuring devices are required to capture and process this information.
