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Thermography reveals where heat is lost and needs better insulation. However, thermal imaging alone is not enough.
With the high energy prices, the insulation of your own four walls is particularly important to save money. With the help of the so-called thermography it is possible to determine where the most heat is lost. However, thermal imaging alone is not always sufficient.
During a thermography, with the help of a Thermal camera the surface temperature of external and internal walls is determined. The result is images that show the different temperatures in a color spectrum from blue to red.
Thermography shows where heat is lost in buildings
The recordings are intended to clarify where in a building heat lost goes and where a house is already very well insulated. The procedure can be particularly useful when it appears that energy is escaping somewhere in the structure.
One sign is when the rooms aren’t getting really warm, even though there’s heating. Even if there is constant draft, thermography can be useful. The comparison with that consumption of the neighbors can also help identify if energy use is unusually high. You should also be on the lookout for mold.
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Thermal imaging is not always necessary
A thermography can help to find the causes for this. But the images also have limits. Although they show how the walls, windows and roof are made, they cannot provide any information about them heating give.
However, it is not always necessary to create thermal images. “A good energy consultant knows the typical ones even without these thermal images vulnerabilities on houses from certain years of construction in his area,” says Reinhard Loch from the North Rhine-Westphalia consumer center to “T-Online”.
Analysis can be a decision-making aid for restructuring
According to Loch, however, the images are crucial for many homeowners to decide on the next steps. “For many owners, it is decision support, which can be seen illustrated once. Then they’re more likely to start renovating their house,” he says.
Houses from the 1950s or 1960s often have poorly insulated roofs, old windows or leaking roller shutter boxes the reason for energy loss. This can be clarified again on thermal images. But you actually know beforehand that there is a need for action,” says energy consultant Loch.
Images should be read by a professional
It is important not to evaluate the images alone. Loch emphasizes that you don’t just commission a thermograph, you also get it from you professional must be read. Otherwise it can happen, for example, that a heavily heated room is incorrectly identified as insufficiently insulated.
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According to the Federal Association for Applied Thermography, a measurement of the building from inside and outside necessary. The reason is that many thermal weak points can only be located from the inside.
If energy weaknesses are found on the thermal images, this does not mean that the entire house sanitized must become. It is enough to start where the heat losses are greatest. Then maybe only the windows need to be replaced or the roof re-insulated.
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