Thermal drone inspection
Some problems are invisible until they’re expensive — wet insulation under a flat roof, a breaker running hot, conditioned air leaking through a bad envelope. A radiometric thermal camera sees them now.
What thermal finds
Roof moisture
Wet insulation holds the day’s heat after sunset and glows on thermal. We map the wet areas so you replace sections, not the whole roof.
Electrical hot spots
Panels, connections, and transformers that run hot fail eventually — usually at the worst time. A scan is cheaper than the outage.
Envelope & insulation loss
Where conditioned air actually escapes, which in a Texas summer is money you can watch leave.
Solar module faults
Hot spots, dead strings, and diode failures — covered in depth on the solar page.
Solar farm inspectionsDone properly or not at all
Thermal is easy to do badly. Meaningful results need a radiometric camera, the right conditions — roof moisture scans fly after sunset following a warm day — and a pilot who understands emissivity and can tell an anomaly from a reflection.
Findings are reported with temperature data, not just pretty rainbow images.
Our aircraft also carries a floodlight, which solves the usual problem with after-dark scans: most operators come back a second day to shoot the visual reference imagery, because a thermal image alone doesn’t show a client where the wet area is. We light it and capture both on the same flight — one mobilization, one invoice.
Simple thermal pricing
$125 as an add-on to any roof inspection. Standalone thermal surveys from $275. Solar arrays priced per acre — see the pricing page.
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