Home Energy Assessments
The Montmorency Community Group were able to purchase a thermal camera with a $5,000 grant from Banyule Council. This has been invaluable in providing Home Energy assessments for local families. The camera allows us to identify cold areas on the walls and ceilings which represent areas of poor insulation. You can also take images from outside of the house to see where heat is escaping. The images act as a “light bulb” moment with home owners saying “Oh, I see what you mean now”. You can see how bad windows are, how the roof insulation has been disturbed by the electrician, and you can see where those installing the insulation ignored the places that were hard to access.
Would you like to check out whether your insulation is working in the roof and walls without climbing up in the ceiling? For $20 our volunteers will come and visit with our thermal camera and identify walls and ceilings that are different temperatures because of poor insulation. We can also demonstrate the advantages of curtains and the problems with down lights. Go to the following link to register your interest.
The Montmorency Community Group were able to purchase a thermal camera with a $5,000 grant from Banyule Council. This has been invaluable in providing Home Energy assessments for local families. The camera allows us to identify cold areas on the walls and ceilings which represent areas of poor insulation. You can also take images from outside of the house to see where heat is escaping. The images act as a “light bulb” moment with home owners saying “Oh, I see what you mean now”. You can see how bad windows are, how the roof insulation has been disturbed by the electrician, and you can see where those installing the insulation ignored the places that were hard to access.
Would you like to check out whether your insulation is working in the roof and walls without climbing up in the ceiling? For $20 our volunteers will come and visit with our thermal camera and identify walls and ceilings that are different temperatures because of poor insulation. We can also demonstrate the advantages of curtains and the problems with down lights. Go to the following link to register your interest.
The above is a photo of a ceiling in one house with the normal image on the left, the thermal image in the middle and the temperature profile taken along the black line on the right. You can clearly see that there is a section without insulation which is considerably colder than the rest of the ceiling. You can even see where the rafters give some insulation.
This photo shows that someone forgot to put insulation on top of their manhole!
The optical image on the left is actually of the floor boards. The spots on the thermal image are paw prints left by the dog!
This initiative has been made possible by a $5,000 grant from the Banyule council.
