For contractors in Building, Facilities maintenance, HVAC and Electrical industries, the ability to visualise each situation you are facing can make a huge difference. Knowing precisely where to start with a job can save time and effort, meaning you can increase efficiency and ultimately provide faster service to the customer. Those 20-30 minutes extra spent diagnosing each job can soon add up, particularly at busy times of the year when you've got a waiting list. With that in mind, a valuable addition to many contractors toolkit is a thermal imaging camera.
But what specific applications is a thermal camera most useful for? Below we summarise the best examples where thermal imaging has time and again proved as an extremely effective diagnositic tool for contractors.