Why would that floor you, Go to Lowe’s buy a shovel $20 bucks and start digging ditches for money and charge by the foot Or buy a John Deer Track Hoe for $80K and dig many ditches. Simple Math
I paid over 12K for one camera and paid for it in one month.
If one is afraid to invest in their business they should not be in business. 
Now that was a mouth full…
Didja like that:mrgreen:
Have no idea how one would do that. Buying the better equipment, I do get that.
When I was younger I bought a compressor and nailgun when most of us were using hammers and had a few guys tell me they would never do anything but handnail because nailguns were for cheap work. We all know how that turned out.
Charley,
How much do you get for a commercial infrared roof inspection?
What was the largest infrared roof inspection you did and how much did you charge for it?
Yes Charley, don’t tell me you paid for a $12,000 camera in a month and then shut up about it.:wha?:
500,000 thousand SQ Footer is the largest roof scan I have done Dave A and I tag teamed it in a little over two nights in Little Rock Arkansas. I don’t remember the exact price somewhere between 7 & 8 K . I do a lot of electrical and roof scans that range from $1700.00 to $6000.00 for one to two days of work.
My largest income for one month was 16K, in 2012. IR has been good to me better than any CMI letters before my name yes I spent more money getting where I am at but the ROI is much bigger. Its like comparing a shovel to a track hoe;-)
Wow, that’s pretty good.
That’s what I need to hear.
Good for you:wink:
Last year I did $10K+ for a week long electrical inspection at a manufacturing facility. Saved them more that 10x that much when I showed them a 5,000kVA transformer that had lost its oil and was about to blow up. Went back to do a quick check on some new electrical sectionalizers and collected $750 for an hour on-site.
Qualified professionals have proper training and equipment and get paid for their services.
Nobody pays the neighborhood kid with a point and shoot camera to take their wedding pictures. Thermography is not point and shoot.
Hey Paul got a 7K home to inspect this morning and a possible 2K this afternoon they were booked because of IR. Are you sitting and waiting for your phone to ring good luck with that.
Sincerely your antagonist;-):p:D
And a very good one at that!
A survey was conducted several years ago (so this information is old). Practicing thermographers were polled as to the average price they charged.
Roof inspection-$135/HR; $1034/day
commercial building -$135/HR; $1165/day
residential building -$133/HR; $959/day
mechanical -$96/HR; $904/day
These numbers are much lower than I have personally experienced (your location may vary). Also based upon the Thermographer Level required for the job.
As for Charley’s gig, most of the IR work was completed in one night!
So divide that by one! We both had a significant drive in the country to get there though.
We evaluated the roof and safety issues in the daylight.
We scanned the roof in the nighttime.
The roof was marked, photographed and a DVD thermal movie was produced, delivered and viewed by the building owner the following day in his boardroom (before noon).
Charley picked up the check…
Charley and I both have horse crap on our feet much of the time, but this business ain’t no BS!
You guys inspire me.
“FREE THERMAL”
Giving away your kids inheritance.
I give it away for free as a courtesy. People aren’t really that dialed into paying extra for 30-50 extra images. You can barely get them to sign on for radon and water testing. Those, however, have more tangible outcomes and can impact the sale of the home. TI really does not. It just reveals a little more of the condition of the home. It is great to show appliances working as a CYA as well. They are great for energy audits, but we aren’t doing energy audits. I do a round of images as my first walk through of the exterior and interior, all the working appliances, heating systems, electrical panel. Takes very little time and a good portion of my visual inspection is done. It has been valuable for some water leaks that could not be readily seen. However, that is a rare moment in most inspections. It is just an enhancement and since I am the only one who does this in my area, possibly state, it is one more thing that helps to set me apart. It is really no different then telling people you offer moisture monitoring and giving them hygrometer and moisture readings throughout the house. Everyone thinks it is cool, but they don’t really want to pay more for it. Who would pay for that unless they specifically wanted that? I guarantee that if I charged more for TI, the camera would sit in the case most of the year. This way, since I offer it, I get hired often enough because it is part of what I do and it is more than paid for. It is more a marketing tool than anything else. There isn’t enough of a market for this service here unless it is an energy audit. Look around, if your competitors aren’t doing it, then why wouldn’t you? It certainly would make your service that much better.
Can someone explain “Idiot”?
I’ll go back to cutting hay for my Horses now. I will ponder the Forrest Gump shrimping business plan while I’m cutting grass.
Forrest did it for free too…
I will also considering investing in “Apples” while I’m at it.
danderson, do you actually have some constructive feedback around the subject? I am interested in your professional opinion on the matter.
Jeff I am going to be a little harsh with your post that you made. I have highlighted some of your thoughts that makes absolutely no sense to the trained thermographer. It just indicates that you have had no training or did not understand what training you might have received. Sounds a lot like Bushart and his flashlight theory of IR.
If you want to be serious about your IR I would be more than happy to talk privately with you
Not only that, but now you have to consider the added time spent using the damn thing on site and explaining your results to your clients… All for free, how exciting is that? Maybe you can make it up on volume? :roll: