Aaron, put a sock in it. <grin> The future is in high tech, green homes, energy efficiency and those that take the time to LOOK at what's coming down the pike.
If you choose to do your inspections on a legal pad in #2 pencil and hand draw the pictures, no one is stopping you. But the new, savvy buyer is very tech aware and expects the same from the people he hires to do his inspections.

The dinosaurs became extinct because they could not adapt to changing conditions.
My advice is to not follow them into the tar pits.

I don't personally us my IR Camera on home inspections, it's against the SoP's But I DO sell it as a service and I DO find things that you just wouldn't see with the naked eye.
I can make $1000 in one evening doing a roof scan and saving some building owner many thousands of dollars for un-needed repairs and they love paying me for it.

IR has been around for many years and is heavily used in industry for predictive maintenance and non-destructive testing. It's track record is indisputable. The records show that for every dollar spent on IR inspections, $20 is saved in repairs that were unscheduled and undetected. Not just the cost of repairs but the much larger cost of plant and personnel down time while unscheduled repairs are being done.

This forum and many others are designed for OPEN discussion of ideas. Why would you want to stop that?

Dana Bostick, Certified Level 1 Thermographer, retired General Contractor and GEEK and proud of it!

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