More About Heat Surveys
An Infrared Heat Survey can show you where your house might be losing heat in different ways, enabling you to take action to reduce your heat loss, save money, stay warm and healthy and reduce CO2 emissions.
What are the Benefits of a Heat Survey?
An Infrared Heat Survey can show you where your house might be losing heat in different ways, enabling you to take action to reduce your heat loss.
The survey might identify some quick wins - simple things to fix that will make an immediate difference - but may also identify some bigger potential issues that require more investigation to address. Overall, our aims are to help you save money, stay warmer and reduce CO2 emissions.
Why Does it Need to be Done After Dark?
The visit needs to be on a cold, dry, calm evening and after dark, as we require a significant temperature difference between the inside and the outside to be able to ‘see’ the heat loss. This means that if the weather is unseasonably warm, very wet or windy we may need to contact you to re-arrange. Apologies in advance if we have to do this - It’s something outside our control!
What Happens in the Survey?
The survey process will take about 1 hour in total. When your Heat Team volunteer arrives, they will take some external and internal measurements of temperature, humidity and wind speed. They will then begin taking a series of images with the thermal camera. It is totally up to you which parts of your house you want us to look at. If you would like to, you will be welcome to try using the thermal camera yourself during the visit.
What Sort of Heat Loss Might We See?
An infrared survey can identify a range of different types of heat loss situations, including draughts, missing insulation, damp spots, etc. Some of these issues can be rectified easily, for example by installing draught excluders, but others might need more specialist follow-up diagnosis.
What Happens After the Survey?
After the survey your Heat Team volunteer will send you a pdf report containing the thermographic images from the survey and any potential issues identified. Our Heat Team volunteers are City & Guilds qualified to provide basic energy efficiency advice, but will offer you a referral to Home Energy Scotland for any further technical investigations or funding questions.
How do i book the Survey? Just click on this link to go to our online booking survey page.
Sign Posting to Further Help
For more technical or complex issues that arise from your survey, our Heat Team volunteer, with your permission, will connect you with our delivery partners, Home Energy Scotland.
They have resources to provide more specific and technical advice on home energy options and funding support.