Check your house insulation with free use of our thermal imaging camera

The Ashton Hayes Community Energy Company CIC has bought a Flir thermal camera that is very easy to use and which can be borrowed for free to enable residents to check the thermal performance of their property. Details on how to borrow the camera can be found here.

A copy of the user manual can be downloaded here. Thermal imaging is most effective on cold, dry evenings, when the heating is on and the contrast between indoor and outdoor temperatures is greatest. Take images both outside and inside. Outside images will show any ‘hot spots’ in orange/red colours, indicating where heat is leaking out of the house, while indoor images will show cold spots in blue tones. Walls, windows and doors should all be checked to look, for example, for any defective wall insulation, poor double glazing, gaps where heat is escaping.