@thermalimageguy.bsky.social
Tom Barbour from Thermal Image UK. From our central Scotland base we carry out thermal imaging & airtightness surveys on new and old buildings looking for heat loss. www. ThermalimageUK.com
Underfloor heating leak Thermal image survey Scotland
Looking for underfloor heating leak? First, find which manifold is losing pressure....
#thermalimagingscotland
#heatlosssurvey
#airtighnesstestingscotland
#undefloorheatingleak
www.thermalimageuk.com
"build tight, ventilate right." This dry-lining leakage though is uncontrolled infiltration, not ventilation. You still need to properly ventilate the homes properly, I 100% agree.
19.10.2025 16:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We could literally save £50 billion - or tell me where my numbers are wrong? If you've got an interest in this issue, please e-mail tom@thermalimageuk.co.uk to join our meeting on November 21st. Thanks
19.10.2025 16:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It's totally absurd! - Governments in London & Edinburgh are so obsessed with not upsetting "business" - aka the plc housebuilders - that they are prepared to do anything to avoid properly inspecting new homes for heat loss. Such a boring, unsexy task - but one that pays massive dividends.
19.10.2025 16:22 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
...and you don’t create nuclear waste, or spend £50 billion! You also avoid the carbon cost of building a nuclear power station, and giving the Chinese access to our infrastructure. Why is no-one interested in building quality homes? What's not to like?!
19.10.2025 16:19 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
This would ALSO avoid locking in 9 million tonnes of CO2 annually (300k new homes forecast to be built annually, houses lasting for 60 years. 0.5 tonnes of excess CO2 per house per annum).....
19.10.2025 16:15 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Sizewell C is going to cost £50 billion, and will save 9 million tonnes of CO2 annually.
Properly installing dry-lining in new houses, avoiding air infiltration behind the plaster board, would cost nothing and produce warmer, healthier homes that are cheaper to run....
Dry-lining fail - meeting to discuss specific cases - Friday 21 November 2025. if this is of interest to you, contact tom@thermalimageuk.co.uk for further details.
14.10.2025 19:04 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
If you're interested blower door testing to identify building air leakage - we are UK suppliers for Retrotec. Watch this video & give us a call on 01357 520557 for more info.
Combined with smoke & thermal imaging blower door is a great diagnostic tool.
www.thermalimageuk.com
youtu.be/XidWmrukoEo
If you're interested blower door testing to identify building air leakage - we are UK suppliers for Retrotec. Watch this video & give us a call on 01357 520557 for more info.
Combined with smoke & thermal imaging blower door is a great diagnostic tool.
www.thermalimageuk.com
youtu.be/XidWmrukoEo
In industrial/ commercial units, air tightness tests can fail not due to the building fabric, but due to leaky roller doors. Using retrotec fans (-ve pressure), and thermal imaging (and smoke - not shown) leakage points can readily be located.
#airtightnesstestingscotland
#blowerdoortestscotland
Heat loss from a wall recorded by thermal image. Solid wall, single glazing, no radiator controls. This is common in Glasgow, Edinburgh and across Scotland. No insulation in this image - thermography is the best tool to identify this heat loss
Every picture tells a story- Solid walls, 1950s solid radiator pipes, student halls, single glazing, no radiator valves-all or nothing! So windows open in February to purge heat. Radiator pipes so hot you can see them through the walls!
#thermalsurveyscotland
#airtestscotland
www.ThermalimageUK.com
Fantastic few days on Fair Isle carrying out air tightness test on superb new Fair Isle Bird Observatory. Amazing scenery & wildlife, friendly locals & staff -I can't recommend a visit highly enough.
#fairislebirdobservatory
#airtightnesstestingscotland
#retrotec
#visitscotland
#UKsRemotestAirTest
Smoke testing a building for air leakage during a Retrotec blower door test in Glasgow
Smoke testing and thermography work well with @retrotec blower door fans to find points of air leakage!
#airpermeabilitytestscotland
#blowerdoorfans
#retrotec
#thermography
#heatlossconsultancy
#smoketesting
#airtightnesstestingedinburgh
Fantastic few days on Fair Isle carrying out air tightness test on superb new Fair Isle Bird Observatory. Amazing scenery & wildlife, friendly locals & staff -I can't recommend a visit highly enough.
#fairislebirdobservatory
#airtightnesstestingscotland
#retrotec
#visitscotland
#UKsRemotestAirTest
Smoke testing a building for air leakage during a Retrotec blower door test in Glasgow
Smoke testing and thermography work well with @retrotec blower door fans to find points of air leakage!
#airpermeabilitytestscotland
#blowerdoorfans
#retrotec
#thermography
#heatlossconsultancy
#smoketesting
#airtightnesstestingedinburgh
Hi Patrick - don't forget community transport operators, like www.CAStrathaven.org running the 3C service from Strathaven & Stonehouse in to Glasgow - transporting 15,000 pax per month, and taking thousands of car journeys off the road. It's not one size fits all. Come and meet with us! - thanks
30.06.2025 10:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Heat loss from a wall recorded by thermal image. Solid wall, single glazing, no radiator controls. This is common in Glasgow, Edinburgh and across Scotland. No insulation in this image - thermography is the best tool to identify this heat loss
Every picture tells a story- Solid walls, 1950s solid radiator pipes, student halls, single glazing, no radiator valves-all or nothing! So windows open in February to purge heat. Radiator pipes so hot you can see them through the walls!
#thermalsurveyscotland
#airtestscotland
www.ThermalimageUK.com
In industrial/ commercial units, air tightness tests can fail not due to the building fabric, but due to leaky roller doors. Using retrotec fans (-ve pressure), and thermal imaging (and smoke - not shown) leakage points can readily be located.
#airtightnesstestingscotland
#blowerdoortestscotland
Found this old post where the merits and pitfalls of thermal imaging buildings is discussed. Worth a read...
www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/article/an-i...
Air tightness testing Scotland leakage detection - negative pressure - Retrotec
Air leakage detection - negative pressure, warmer outside than inside #retrotec
Latest technology, top quality fans from retrotec , and a little lateral thinking.
#airtightnessglasgow
#airtightnessedinburgh
#airtightnessscotland
30.05.2025 05:00 — 👍 80 🔁 20 💬 3 📌 1
Community car hire from @castrathaven www.CAStrathaven.org .Owning one less car in your family is one of the biggest carbon reducing actions you can take. Public transport/active travel where possible, but car available when you need one. Embodied carbon of car is up to 50% of its lifetime emissions
18.04.2025 14:23 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0The Government has sold the last of its shares in NatWest which it nationalised in the 2008 Financial Crisis.
The Government has lost £10bn.
Natwest is making £7.2bn profit a year.
We are being robbed NatWest needs to pay back every penny.
This is quite impressive from one of the UK’s largest house builders
They should roll it out across the whole country
www.businessgreen.com/news/4413943...
Scottish Government ministers have the power to stop Flamingo Land from scarring our national park with their mega-resort. Yet they're refusing to do so.
It's an intervention they made to save Donald Trump's Aberdeenshire golf course. So why not now to save Loch Lomond?
The disconnect tween UK public love of nature & Tory/Lab/Reform policies is bizarre.
All our "national parks" get truly derisory £60m annual budget.
One new car Thames crossing £9BILLION funding. 🙈🙈😪
Thermal Image UK is proud to be a member and supporter of the @passivhaustrust.bsky.social
Building new homes to Passivhaus standard, can be the single action that reduces the most carbon over time relative to the social barriers to change.
It should be the #1 climate action globally.
🚨 WE ARE RECRUITING 🚨
Could you be our Mass Lobby Coordinator?
We are looking for a highly organised and effective coordinator to oversee the planning and delivery of a mass climate lobby of MSPs in September 2025.
Find out more and apply here: www.stopclimatechaos.scot/stop-climate...
A picture from the Perthshire Advertiser with an article title "There is 'no appetite' for voluntary library services". The article also has a picture of a protest outside a library with lots of colourful banners and children and families.
Perth and Kinross residents are not interested in having volunteer-led library services. I will be taking up the Minister's offer to meet and discuss the definition of 'adequate provision' of library services.
10.05.2025 14:48 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
