| Thermal Imaging for Building Envelope
Inspection
Inspection of the building envelope
is an integral component of building inspection, and specifically
required for LEED and ENERGY STAR certification. Though sealing
materials at critical structural junctures can be observed visually during
the construction process, using a Wahl Thermal Imager can make the process
easier and more accurate capturing images of air flow and allowing before
and after comparison photos in reports for your
clients.
For facility managers and building engineers, a
thorough inspection of your facility's building envelope with a low cost
thermal imager from Wahl Instruments can help reduce your heating and
cooling spending, detect moisture infiltration and potential mold growth
and building faults.
Thermal imaging inspection can reveal flaws in
your building envelope that allow costly heating and cooling
leaks. Often problems can be rectified with simple and
inexpensive fixes - weather stripping and spray polyurethane
insulation can repair a number of problems - if you know where
the problem is. The easy-to-use Wahl Heat
Spy®
Imager
HSI3000 is an affordable diagnostic tool that can pay for itself many
times over by minimizing or even eliminating heating and cooling dollars
lost to leaks.
Moisture
infiltration and water leaks can cause expensive
damage - and may lead to hard-to-clean mold
infestations. The
Wahl Heat Spy®
Imager
HSI3000 can detect pipe locations within walls and floors, lessening
the amount of drywall or flooring that must be removed to rectify the
problem and thereby reducing repair
costs.
Image Caption: Thermal imaging can
help you pinpoint pipe locations, minimizing the damage to walls, floors,
and ceilings. In this image, a hot water pipe is
seen.
Image Caption:
Cooler spots reveal moisture evaporating, indicating possible mold
and mildew growth. Further visual inspection is
required.
Use the Wahl Thermal Imager to check your roof for
leaks or standing water to prevent expensive structural damage from
occurring. Identify and repair small leaks before they become large
and costly!
Image Caption: Thermal Image of
standing water on a flat roof.
Contact Wahl Instruments today
to find out more about the Wahl
Heat Spy®
Imager
HSI3000 and how it can save you money
today.
Are you
a Building Inspector?
When you buy a thermal imager from Wahl
Instruments, you become eligible for all the benefits of our "Building
Inspection Network"
Home inspectors affiliated with our
Building Inspection Network will be listed on our website at www.santangelosolar.com. Visitors
to our website can search to find your website, phone number, and other
contact information. Let us help you get
leads!
Our extensive
network of Palmer Wahl representatives throughout the United States meets
with customers every day - they become your potential customers when
you join our Building Inspection Network. Receive referrals
for interested customers from our reps in the field when you purchase a Wahl
Heat Spy®
Imager
HSI3000.
You already do inspections to
improve your customers' energy efficiency. Are your customers
expressing an interest in taking the next step - producing their own
clean energy from renewable resources? Our sister company, Sant`Angelo Solar
provides solar electric system solutions for commercial and industrial
installations. Many solar electric customers seek energy
efficiency inspections prior to the design and installation of their solar
electric systems, to minimize their energy loss. As you are doing
inspections, having a partner in the solar energy business will add to
your list of available services and credibility in this new &
exciting category.
Grow your business with Wahl Instruments.
Contact us to find out more!
Renewable Energy - Solar
Panels
After reducing your facilities' overall energy
consumption, consider installing solar electric panels to provide part of
your energy consumption from a renewable source. Every
$1 spent on improving energy efficiency reduces the cost of a PV system by
an estimated $2: Let Sant`Angelo Solar show you
how.
Energy efficiency is a key component to producing
an effective and economically viable photovoltaic system.
Depending on your location, federal, state, and local tax incentives
are available to lower your costs even further. Produce
some or all of your own power with the free, abundant energy from the
sun - reducing your dependence on energy produced from
fossil fuels. Our sister company, Sant`Angelo Solar,
offers high-quality photovoltaic solutions for commercial and industrial
installations. On-Site Renewable Energy can be worth up
to 3 Points on the LEED certification rubric. Let
Sant`Angelo Solar help you attain LEED certification with clean, renewable
energy solutions. Visit our website at www.santangelosolar.com/
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Thermal Imaging & Thermal Bypass
Inspection
Image
Caption: Thermal Bypass flaws allow heat to enter or leave a building,
increasing heating and cooling costs. The white areas in this photo
indicate heat
loss.
Thermal bypass inspection must be completed for a
home or building to earn the ENERGY STAR* rating. This
inspection is typically visual, but using a Wahl Thermal Imaging camera can
make the process faster and more
reliable.
To achieve ENERGY STAR certification a
building must pass a 16-point Thermal Bypass Checklist to inspect for
missing air barriers or gaps between the air barrier and
insulation. Reducing the occurrence of thermal bypass
improves comfort and reduces utility bills. Infrared
thermal images can assist you in locating thermal bypass conditions by
exposing hot and cold surface temperatures resulting from air
flows. Thermal imaging technology from Wahl Instruments
is affordable - the lowest cost, high performance thermal
imaging camera on the market. The Wahl
Heat Spy®
Imager
HSI3000 provides the crisp, high resolution images necessary to detect
and pinpoint problem areas. The large 3 -1/2" LCD
display measures the temperature of every pixel in the frame.
Use the supplied SD card to store up to one thousand
images. Included with the camera is analysis and report
writing software that allows you to provide documentation of problems to
property owners or contractors so the problem can be rectified.
Free thermal imaging training at our Asheville, NC location is
included with your purchase, or on-site training at your facility can be
arranged for an additional charge. With low cost thermal imaging from Wahl
Instruments, you can perform more detailed inspections quickly.
Contact
Wahl today to find out
more.
*Wahl Instruments Inc., is not
affiliated with the ENERGY STAR program.
Electrical
Overheat
Electrical Overheat
and overheated components are often the first sign of trouble, creating
fire hazards and expensive downtime in a manufacturing setting.
With the Wahl
Heat Spy®
Imager
HSI3000 electrical overheating and potential equipment failure can be
located before problems start.
Most electrical
problems exhibit steadily increasing temperatures prior to their
failure. Improper connections, short circuits, and
fatigued components are causes of overheating. These are
easily seen using the Wahl
Heat Spy®
Imager
HSI3000.
Image
Caption: Improper electrical connections can overheat to
create dangerous fire
hazards.
Critical components
within your manufacturing process are susceptible to wear and
overheat. When failure occurs costly downtime follows,
adding to your repair bill. Thermal imaging can help you
detect overheat as it begins - catching developing
problems before they lead to process downtime. The
HSI3000 from Wahl Instruments has the crisp, high resolution needed to
spot improper lubrication of bearings and motors, misalignments in rotating
equipment, and improper tension in drive belts and pulleys, and a number of
other problems. 
Image
Caption: Overheating drive belt hastens wear.
The affordable, easy to use Wahl Heat
Spy® Imager HSI3000 features a 3 - ½" LCD display,
and stores up to one thousand images with the supplied SD card.
Use the included software to create reports for documentation of
problems. Included with your purchase is a FREE Wahl
Heat Spy Infrared Thermometer, a portable, non-contact thermometer to aid
you in your diagnostics. Contact Wahl Instruments
today to learn more about how an affordable thermal imager can save you
money and headaches.
HVAC
HVAC systems are a major energy
user in homes, offices, manufacturing and facilities.
Producing heated and cooled air can be an expensive
proposition - losing that air to leaks and system inefficiencies zaps
dollars from your budget. Learn how a reasonably priced
thermal imager from Wahl
Instruments can help you locate and minimize leaks in your
system. ENERGY STAR estimates that leaky ducts can reduce
the efficiency of your heating and cooling system by as much as
20%. Is this a problem in your facility?
With the Wahl Heat
Spy®
Imager
HSI3000 you can detect hot or cold air leaks in ductwork, kinks
in joints or even bad duct tape connections. Thoroughly
check duct work throughout your building, and perform the necessary repairs
with mastic and metal based tape. Sealing your HVAC
system not only saves energy, it has the added benefit of improving indoor
air quality by reducing the possibility that pollutants will enter the
ducts and circulate throughout your building. Inspect
ductwork that integrates with your gas appliances as well – the venting
ductwork on these appliances removes harmful gases from your
building. Any leaks can cause "backdrafting", pulling
these gases back into occupied spaces. Seal leaks
carefully to eliminate this problem.
Thermal imaging is also useful for inspecting the
workings of your HVAC unit itself - locate coolant leaks and clogs
that reduce the efficiency of your unit.
Image Caption:
An AC unit with a clogged core will cycle more often, shortening its useful
life.
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