Infrared camera in Home Inspection

ScribeWare co-founder Dylan Chalk started sharing his knowledge to the home inspection community through a blog, podcast, and continuing education classes long before he and his buddy Steve Lamb started to build the best inspection software that could be built. And he doesn’t plan on stopping anytime soon. The reality is that sharing professional best practices with the home inspection community at large is central to the whole point of ScribeWare: build the best inspection report software, and build it with templates, pre-written comments, and prompts so that it actually helps inspectors be better at their job.

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Dlyan Chalk photo from infrared camera showing exterior

Infrared Cameras for Home Inspection

What does an infrared camera do? If you are thinking of using or requesting infrared for a home inspection, the first thing you need to understand is that infrared cameras are just fancy thermometers; they translate surface temperatures of objects into colors thereby creating an image comprised of temperature differentials. That is all they are. Fancy thermometers. How can this fancy thermometer be used on a home inspection? The benefits and limitations for infrared cameras on home inspections can be...