20+ Years Experience
Specialist Heat Loss Surveys
Energy-efficient heating and insulation are at the top of many homeowners’ minds right now. One of the best ways to save money is to have good, reliable cavity wall insulation to keep the heat in, but it can be hard to know when your building fabric has weak points, letting the heating out through the walls.
With years of expertise in providing heat loss surveys to homeowners and buildings across the UK, we can help you to sort out your heating bills through insulation for your building in January 2025, allowing you to save money in the long run. If you are interested, fill out the contact form on our website and get in touch!
We are a CAA Qualified expert heat loss survey company operating across the entire UK. Our company team of experts have experience with heat loss surveys in any sort of property or house and devote that skill and expertise to providing an efficient report to identify areas where you have heat leaks, poor insulation, or insulation voids.
With the help of our thermographic survey services, you can get ahead of higher bills and vastly increase the energy efficiency of your home. Get in touch via the form on our website to start the process of identifying underperforming heating elements and air leakage across your property.
There are many benefits to carrying out heat loss surveys some of these include:
Since heat rises to elevated areas, which often means improving your loft insulation, not every building has the same problems.
Heat loss surveys can help you determine the level of insulation required in your home. It can also identify air leaks that are conductive, and can help you map the extent of flooding damage. It is a great thing to carry out because it can show you the state of the building’s insulation and identify any defects. We have found that the outcome of a heat loss survey are invaluable when it comes to buying or selling a home or building.
We offer a number of excellent heat loss surveys and are more than happy in assisting you with anything you need more information on.
On average, a Heat Loss Survey will cost between £500-£9,000 + VAT. There are many things that factor into this cost such as:
These prices are based on rough estimates if you would like more accurate costs don’t hesitate to get in touch with a member of our team today.
A heat loss survey or thermal imaging survey is a type of survey that uses a thermal camera to identify heat loss locations in your home. The thermal imaging camera can solve unidentified heat loss problems by visualising areas of warm air and cold air in your home, clearly showing where you are losing heat from.
That could be gaps around your windows or doors, patches of missing insulation, or just areas of your home where inefficient heating systems are struggling to cope with your cavity wall insulation.
While you can obviously tell if your flat feels cold, some of the most common problems that cause energy bills to increase are impossible to see with the naked eye, such as thermal bridging, in which heat escapes through a solid surface. A heat loss report identifies heat loss paths like this, enabling you to do something about the problem and improve the heating efficiency of your house!
Not every home needs heat loss surveys. If you are happy with your heating and your windows are all modern, double-glazed installations, a heat loss survey might not be worth the money.
If your building is inexplicably chilly, your bills are higher than you would like them to be, or you have not convinced your heat protection is of the highest quality, then a heat loss survey might be able to help you reduce your energy consumption and therefore your energy bill – it could save you money in the longer term by avoiding the expense of increased energy usage caused by things like poor loft insulation.
The process is a simple one. We use thermal imaging cameras to identify problem areas. In practice, that means pointing thermal cameras at every area of your property and taking a picture of the temperature to see how it looks.
This can take a while, but it is a relatively straightforward process.
Heat loss surveys work best when the ambient temperature is low: in most cases, they will only be carried out during the winter months.
This is because if the ambient temperature is warm, there won’t be much difference between the hotter and cooler areas, so it will be harder to spot leaks.
An additional service that operates in tandem with thermal imaging surveys is air tightness testing.
This is exactly what it sounds like: blowing jets at different parts of your house to detect leaks. In most cases, thermal imaging will give you the same results, however, so this report is much less important.
Normal photography takes a picture using the visible light spectrum. Thermal imaging uses a different part of the spectrum, using the radiated energy of the infrared spectrum to create an image. This gives you a picture where the cooler areas are rendered in blue, while the warmer areas are in colours like reds and yellows.
There are many types of thermal cameras available, but the thermal camera involved is much less important than the skill of the operator using that camera.
All of our operators are highly trained and use mid to high-range thermal cameras, allowing very precise temperature detection at all times.
Heat loss surveying is a well-regulated profession, requiring at least a level 2 certificate from the BINDT programme and 1200 hours of practical experience in order to operate as a professional surveyor.
The most important reason for wanting to reduce heat loss is lowering your winter energy bills will obviously reduce the amount you will have to pay on bills during those cold winter months. You will find that conducting this process will also help during summer, the gain gain in summer will decrease meaning your air condition bills will also go down too.
A thermal heat loss survey is a thermographic inspection of your property using an infrared camera to take a deep dive into the effectiveness of heat retention and locate areas where improvements could possible be made.
Thermography scanning is used to survey, detect and find flat floor leaks, trapped moisture under water proofing, damaged or missing insulation and hidden defects.
A thermal survey report of a building will include thermal and digital images where we will highlight our findings along with our analysis and recommendations.
If you’re looking for heat loss surveys to help you manage your energy bills, then look no further. We’re here to help you manage heat loss in your home, surveying your property for unexplained cold areas and insulation problems. With our help, you can ensure you’ve got the best temperature protection and insulation for energy efficiency possible.
If you are interested in booking a survey, contact us immediately. Reach out through the form on our website, and a member of our team will get back to you as soon as possible.
Make sure you contact us today to book a heat loss survey.
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