Benefits of Internal and External Thermal Surveys

Do I need an internal or external thermal survey? This is an easy question.  The answer is almost always BOTH.  Unless there are severe practical issues (eg a highrise flat) we will always want to see both sides of every wall we survey.

We need to gather information and make scans of both inside and outside to really judge what is happening with parts or the whole of a building.  Depending on the actual construction in place, we can gather different and complimentary information on both sides of a wall or roof. Sometime we get valuable information from both outside and in many cases we gather the majority of the useful information from the inside.

Although we mainly show nice images from outside buildings on this website because they are normally more eye-catching, our reports typically have many times more images from inside. This is the slow and painstaking part of the survey – external images can often be gathered in minutes but internal images may take hours. So NEVER make decisions based solely on external images – they are almost certainly going to have limited or possibly misleading conclusions. We could halve our prices if we only did external surveys but they would not be worth doing in most cases.

To learn more about internal and external thermal surveys, or to book a survey for your property please contact us here or call 01732 364076