See Energy Loss in Action with Thermal Imaging

The concept of energy loss - which for the rest of this blog I’m just going to call heat loss, because it’s about 5 degrees outside and honestly I’d be happy to lose some cold - is hard to visualize. You know that you feel cold, you know that you’re paying out the nose for heat that seems to be evaporating, but you can’t see it, so it doesn’t feel real.

But what if you could see it?

Ayers uses state of the art equipment to assess your home for water, structural, and energy problems, but today we’re going to focus on that last one. Through the use of thermal imaging cameras, we can actually show you where your home is losing energy, and the realities of that loss.

Take this crawl space in Spring Lake. Our customer called because the fiberglass insulation in her crawl space had fallen and she wanted it “cleaned up” and protected from the elements. Here’s a picture of said fallen insulation:

And here’s what that same spot looked like through the thermal imaging camera:

Everywhere that has insulation present is considerably warmer than the portion of the wall that isn’t insulated AND contains a vent. There is an 11 degree difference in just this one small area of the crawl space. Let this be another visual aid for why you need to cover your crawl space vents: They’re letting in freezing air!

If your crawl space isn’t insulated, or has ineffective fiberglass insulation (which, admittedly works right until the moment it falls down after absorbing too much moisture), you’re probably living with cold floors and high energy bills, and it doesn’t have to be that way. With products like our SilverGlo insulation panels and other insulation applications, we can ensure your crawl space isn’t a slave to the elements, and you’re not beholden to your crawl space.

A picture’s worth a thousand words, and in this case, it’s worth your comfort.