Thermal imaging
Seeing what a flashlight cannot.
An infrared camera reads surface temperature. In a house, that turns into a map of where water is, where insulation is not, and which connections are running hot.
Finding water before it becomes damage
Wet material holds and releases heat differently from dry material around it, so a leak shows up as a temperature anomaly well before it shows up as a stain — a roof leak tracking down through a truss, a shower pan seeping into a subfloor, a supply line weeping inside a wall, or water wicking up a foundation.
Because the survey is non-destructive, we can check the suspicion without cutting anything open — and if there is nothing there, that is a useful answer too.
Where the heat is actually going
Insulation settles, gets compressed, gets skipped behind an obstruction, or was never installed properly in the first place. From the inside on a cold day, those gaps, voids and thin spots read as cold patches in the wall or ceiling — a direct picture of thermal performance rather than an estimate from an R-value on paper.
The same scan catches air leakage around windows, doors, rim joists and can lights, which is often a bigger share of a heating bill than the insulation itself.
Why the icicles keep coming back
Ice dams are not a gutter problem. They form when heat escaping into the attic melts snow on the roof deck, the water runs to a cold eave and refreezes. Infrared shows the heat-loss pattern along the roofline, which tells you where to seal and insulate instead of re-doing the whole attic and hoping.
Connections running hot
Loose connections, overloaded circuits and failing breakers give off heat before they fail. Scanning the panel and accessible circuits under load identifies hotspots while everything is still working — which is the difference between a scheduled repair and an electrical fire.
Drone roof surveys
Some roofs cannot be safely or usefully assessed from a ladder: steep pitches, tile, high two-story lines, or simply too much square footage. Aerial thermal and visual imaging covers the whole surface, and trapped moisture under the covering shows as a pattern that is invisible from the ground.
Included with every home inspection
You do not need to book this separately when you are buying. Thermal imaging is part of our standard inspection — a standalone survey is for when you already own the house and something is wrong.