Thermal Building Inspections

Formally trained in Thermographic Building Inspections, Mountainside Drone Solutions provides comprehensive interior & exterior thermal inspections for commercial and residential properties. These inspections are affordable and proven to be a powerful tool in identifying failures within your home or commercial property. We not only inspect the exterior of your home with our thermal imaging drone, but we also go inside with our hand held IR Thermal camera to check for building system integrity.

What we look for during a thermal building inspection:

Missing or inadequate insulation
Moisture intrusion
Mold & mildew build-up
Poor window and door seals
electrical faults
Radiant heating element operation
Solar Panel (PV Cell) Condition
and more…
In all reality, thermal imaging can detect a number of potential issues with the overall building systems. It is important to understand the risk you are putting yourself at by not having a thermal inspection conducted on your home or commercial property during the inspection phase of a sale.
By passing on a thermal inspection, you could be on the hook for repairs!

In 2013, we bought our first home in Golden, Colorado. The price of the home was at the top of our budget so we wanted to make sure the house was in sound condition before we committed. We hired a highly rated home inspector who did a great job identifying a number of issues with the home that we then used to negotiate a lower sales price at closing. We were feeling great about our investment!
About a year after moving into our home, we noticed the ceiling in the downstairs bathroom had a small water spot forming on the drywall. When I pressed my hand against the drywall to feel for moisture, the ceiling collapsed into the bathtub below exposing black mold into the air . We immediately called our insurance company to file a claim and had a contractor come to assess the damage. It turns out that the shower pan in the upstairs bathroom had a tear in it that had been slowly leaking water between the floor and ceiling over a very long period of time. Long enough to create mineral deposits between the floor and ceiling, according to the insurance adjuster. Because this wasn’t a sudden loss, our insurance provider wouldn’t cover any of the damage caused by this little tear in the shower pan. Whats more, we never considered a thermal inspection when purchasing the home because it was never offered as an option by our inspector. A thermal may have identified this moisture intrsusion which would have save us thousands.
Long story short, we were now responsible for getting the mold out of our home & repairing our shower all out of our own pocket.
Here is what this cost us.
$5,500 - Professional Mold Mitigation and Removal Services.
$15,000 - Master Bath remodel cost
$2,500 - Hotel Room for 2 weeks during mold mitigation
$2,000 - Miscellaneous Cost
$25,000 - Final Total for all repairs
This experience caused us a great amount of stress. Not only because of the process of repairing our new home, but the financial stress this put on us moving forward as a young family. We were now what they call, “house broke”.

Our own personal experience with the risks of home ownership is the main reason we want to bring this service to our clients and make it affordable for everyone. We don’t want anyone to experience what we had to go through simply because they didn’t have the tools available to them when it mattered.

our thermal inspections use traditional cameras (RGB) & Thermal Cameras (IR) to identify annomolies

Not only does our IR inspection services provide thermal imagery, we also record everything in RGB (traditional camera) simultaneously that is FREE of charge.

As the old saying goes'; “a picture is worth a thousand words.” This couldn’t be more true when it comes to owning any kind of property. Having regular footage of your property will establish a baseline set of images that can insure you in future claims or disputes with insurance companies or for unforeseen reasons. Imagine being able to provide before and after pictures with an insurance claim. Having original pictures of every square inch of your home can in fact provide an enormous amount of information for a property owner. Here are some instances where having original footage can protect you:

Prove damage to insurance companies
Use as evidence in disputes with contractors
Use for before and after remodel pictures
The applications are really endless
And all this at no additional cost
Our thermal inspection costs are worth it. Know what you are buying before its too late.