Found with thermal

[cevans (Chuck Evans, CMI)]

@wogletree

Here’s a pic of the little girl who was with the family that was in attendance for the entire inspection yesterday. I really hate it when folks do that.

Anyway, the family got a kick out of it and I sent the photo to her mother, who said she was going to post it on Facebook. I encouraged her to let people know where it came from ;). Maybe it will be a conversation piece that leads to referral work. Maybe I might do this sort of thing more often.

Gimmick, I know, but if it works, what the hey!

She’s a drooler

[wogletree (William Ogletree, TREC License #22530)]

@cevans

She’s a drooler

LOL!

You’re right, Chuck, and you can be damned sure that went in the report!

[ryoung7 (ROBERT YOUNG, CMI)]

Lol. Ha ha ha.
Air condition space. Drool cooled on her t-shirt. Same temp as the walls.:):)

I don’t mind toddlers hanging around. They typically keep parents occupied after awhile.

[cevans (Chuck Evans, CMI)]

Here’s an old one. Emmett was accused of sleeping on the sofa while we were out. He was acquitted of any wrongdoing following an infrared investigation.

https://scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/311306_267783293249176_187014_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=8aab6a5328024d9d575d47ff08e37196&oe=5BEE2AC4

[wogletree (William Ogletree, TREC License #22530)]

LOL!

Good Dog!

[sfetty (Dave Fetty, CMI)]

@cevans

Here’s an old one. Emmett was accused of sleeping on the sofa while we were out. He was acquitted of any wrongdoing following an infrared investigation.

https://scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/311306_267783293249176_187014_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=8aab6a5328024d9d575d47ff08e37196&oe=5BEE2AC4

LOL :lol:

[sfetty (Dave Fetty, CMI)]

Todays helper was Rascal a puppy that was terribly deprived (NOT!) :lol: He did get busted for piddling in office/TV room.

[cbottger (Charley L. Bottger)]

The electrical images could obviously been seen without IR but it sure makes good marketing and I will most likely get two more inspections because of it.;-)

The basement was a finished basement with mostly carpet the walls had no indication of moisture intrusion. This was a 100 year old home with 18 inch exterior walls with hard coat stucco exterior finish. I don’t inspect many basements in my area but I always use the IR camera on a walk around the exterior walls. The carpet had no stains indicating moisture. Thank goodness for IR or I could have missed this one.

[wogletree (William Ogletree, TREC License #22530)]

Good stuff, Charley.

I did an inspection where a very small carpet stain at the base of a toilet tipped me off to a big leak problem. High moisture levels continued well into the adjacent bedroom. IR didn’t show anything except the spot where my knee had compressed the carpet and drawn some of the moisture to the top. Sneaky stuff, that moisture!

[mbrooks5 (Mitchel Brooks)]

@wogletree

I thought it might be fun and helpful for us to share IR photos that led us to discover and/or confirm problems in a home. Ideally, each photo should show some kind of temperature anomaly, the hypothetical cause, and how that hypothesis was proven, or as importantly, dis-proven, and how it was covered in the report.

I’ll start with this one from a recent inspection.

These photos show with what appear to me to be “trails” in the thermal signature. Having seen this pattern in attics that had rodent droppings, my hypothesis was that there was a past or present rodent infestation.

In the attic I found the areas above had insulation packed down in “trails”, consistent with the patterns found when rodents have been moving about. I also observed a few rodent pellets. I did not excavate.

All that was enough for me to state that there was a past or present rodent infestation, but the tenant overheard me talking to the buyer about what I had found and he piped up “yeah, I hear things moving around up there, but I’ve never seen anything”. That pretty well cinched it.

Final determination was, based on thermal patterns, packed-down insulation, observed rodent feces, and statements by the tenant, that there is an active rodent infestation and a professional exterminator needs to be called in.

Awesome.

[wogletree (William Ogletree, TREC License #22530)]

@mbrooks5

Awesome.

Saw it again yesterday, but “trails” were cooler than the surroundings due to colder weather. It’s really interesting how lower outdoor temps change how one has to approach interpretation of images.