See you in class Jay…!!! 
Good post.
Should I write my ad copy to help the client understand real world expectations,
or write it in such an exaggerated fashion it would take a lawyer to explain how
in some rare situations I might be telling the truth…? NOT.
In 25 years of construction and 10 years as an inspector, I have never seen
a wall built with materials that an IR camera can ‘see’ through.
Who are we serving with such trickery? Not the Client. :roll:
If this guy can “see through walls”, then my special high tech one-of-a-kind hand held infrared camera can see right through clothes. And I absolutely love it.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2007/0706-seeing_through_walls.htm
You can see through walls, ha. ha.
If someone says they can see through walls and they can’t but they get the client I get upset
Now do I say I also can see through walls or do I say that they are being un-professional and misleading???
Should I go so far as to report them to the state etc.
It is sort of like using the word “Certified” when one is not.
We all like to show the client that we are his or her best choice
So what should we with a competitor that is guilty of false advertising??
---- I don’t like more government control to protect the consumer------
The ball is back in your court
rlb
As a note – we are not serving anyone with “trickery” but our competitor down the street is – he is serving himself
He is like Bill Clinton talking about sex
Remember that most of our clients don’t understand a moisture meter and what a high reading means
Remember if it is not costing you $$ today it will in the future
rlb
One to make the case?
How bout this line of questioning…
With your IR camera…
Can you see through drywall?
Can you see through plaster?
Can you see through concrete?
Stone?
Brick?
etc…
How do you think a jury (or judge) would react to the multitude of things you cannot see through to find that there is only one (in your world) that you can see through?
Or how about setting up 3-4 small walls and holding something (different color objects, perhaps) behind them and asking the defendant to see what color object is behind there.
Would make good courtroom drama.
And show that you cannot see through walls with an IR camera (not even one).
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Do the right thing, regardless.
It’s called being a man of character and principles.
Very good and right on the money.
I guess I don’t need to carry my lead suit for customers anymore-they all thought I could see them naked - so I told them to wear this while I am inspecting.
All - remember that the other inspector will show missing insulation - moisture - missing rebar - dead electrical heating zones etc.
Has he proven his point?? — Can a good IR man “see” things that a non IR person can not?
If you were looking at all points would you say that he could see through walls?
Remember he could see things that you could not and it was behind the wall
No where did someone say that they could see everything
I too say it is wrong but what do we want to do - Join them or fight them?
rlb
This is a new technology and is bigger than those who presently use it, apparently.
On one thread, we have a guy who quoted a price for an IR home inspection at a mere $450 who got undercut by someone else with IR for $300.
On the other hand, on another thread, someone speaks of something they call a “whole house IR inspection” and are getting $3500.
Meanwhile, there are mental midgets advertising that this stuff can see through walls.
Something tells me that there are some inspectors in the world who are going to be blowing their brains out with an IR gun if there is not some kind of controls established on this…and soon.
This is a new technology and is bigger than those who presently use it, apparently.
On one thread, we have a guy who quoted a price for and IR home inspection at a mere $450 who got undercut by someone else with IR for $300.
On the other hand, on another thread, someone speaks of something they call a “whole house IR inspection” and are getting $3500.
Meanwhile, there are mental midgets advertising that this stuff can see through walls.
Something tells me that there are some inspectors in the world who are going to be blowing their brains out with an IR gun if there is not some kind of controls established on this…and soon.
This stuff is making the $25 self testing mold kit look credible.
James
Remember that a lot of inspectors will make a lot of money before the government comes in an controls the profession
Is that what we want??
rlb
Actually it was $425, but who is counting?
I think the $3,500 is someone blowing smoke out their arse… JMO
Hey bushy. I have an extra IR camera I’ll rent to you for a couple days, as long as you leave a note, return it to sender when your done with it.:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
Dan H
Soon to be a certified thermographer for less than 50 bucks:twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
Nuff said.
I recently did some mold sampling as a result of this mold kit magnet.
I won’t elaborate any further. What ever happened to our mold/radon specialist Mr. Chroinholmnmnhng???
State Licensed IR Home Inspectors???
Frankly…I just might…the argument is certainly…nah. Not yet.
Absolutely, a “good IR man” can see things someone without cannot - I would conservatively say 50% of my inspections find things with IR that I would not have found without it (and they are usually significant.) It is terminology, he sees it because he “sees” a heat picture of the surface and makes determinations based on the temperatures, not because he sees behind the wall. It is actually a small point, but a very important one. I think all of us who us the technology understand what the Homesafe ad is saying, but the uneducated consumer may not, hence the danger.