General Applications
Underfloor Heating & thermal imaging
With the new thermal imagers you can check easily and quickly underfloor heating installations. The thermal image detail will highlight problems not detected by the naked eye and will help in
applications such
- Mapping the grid of underfloor heating pipes
- Identify burst underfloor heating pipes
- Control inaccessible points
- Defining poor workmanship in piping
- Measurement of the average floor temperature
Also
Locating underfloor heating systems (both water pipes in screed and electric).
A survey can help locate where these systems are located, either in advance of building work, or where there is a problem with the system.
Locating the pipes serving a radiator system
Usually this is where there is a loss of pressure in the boiler system - indicating a leak - and the client has been unable to find it by conventional means. Thermal imaging can help detect the
leak if the leak is causing a change in the temperature of the surface being viewed (usually the floor above, or ceiling below). The image below shows a hot spot under a slate bathroom floor,
which subsequently turned out to be the location of the leak.
Structural Energy Loss
Missing or damaged insulation or water infiltration into insulated systems allows excess energy loss at the point of defect. When performed under the correct conditions, thermal imaging is
capable of detecting evidence of latent moisture or physical defects due to changes in either the thermal conductivity and/or thermal capacitance of the insulation system.
Benefits:
- locate missing, improperly installed or damaged insulation
- identify costly air leakage energy losses
- evaluate the thermal performance of retrofits
- provide hardcopy proof of problems
- reduce heating and cooling energy costs