Tuesday Talks: Thermal Imaging to check house insulation
Tue, 25 Feb
|Clanfield
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Time & Location
25 Feb 2025, 19:30 – 20:30
Clanfield, Carter Institute, Clanfield, Bampton OX18, UK
About the event
Thermal Imaging
Most of the homes in Clanfield were built before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, technology has improved at an outstanding pace since then, we carry smart phones in our pocket with more computing power than Apollo 11.

Thermal imaging is a type of photography which visualises heat unseen by the human eye. Equipment options range from expensive high resolution cameras to using small adapters to a smart phone, you can see heat, the hard part is understanding the results which is why I attended a short course run by The Low Carbon Hub to introduce the basics. An IR camera actually measures the intensity of infrared radiation being emitted by a surface, what you see is the smallest temperature differences, this highlights “thermal bridges”, where heat is being lost from a building, it can be as simple as a poorly fitted window, a blown glazing unit or more…