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Do you know what's in your walls? |
In Australia the termite populations are some of the most numerous of any location in the world. They can be above ground species or they can be the types that prefer the darkness of an underground existence. The main factor is that termites damage wood and homes in the Gold Coast and Brisbane are predominantly still constructed of wood. What does all this have to do with you and the upcoming purchase of that nice cozy 3/2 in the subdivision? Plenty.
The home-buying transaction is of course proliferated with inspections of the soundness and the code acceptability of the future residence. The buyer, you, is protected by these pre-qualifications and rest assured most of the time the visual inspections do just that and all is well. There are the times that the home-inspection fails to identify a brooding colony of subterranean termites licking their mandibles in preparation for a fine dining experience, on your footers and other wood-containing surface boards. The inspection fails to notice these millions of cellulose-loving insects and the “Passed” option is checked when it is really not.
What can you do to protect yourself and the biggest buying decision of your entire life? Hire the professionals at Thermal Master to inspect the property and make certain that thermal imaging is incorporated in the inspection. Just what is thermal imaging and how does it relate to termites? Thermal imaging is just what it says it is a heat-seeking reading of anything that emits a heat signature. In the case of the home that is being purchased the thermal-imaging reading is particularly effective in identifying the termites in the walls and the other structural entities that are not available to the naked eye. By seeing through the walls and finding the heat-signatures of termites the inspection can then be called complete. The main factors in the professional inspector’s entire reason for being there is to guarantee there exist no wood-destroying organisms or there are wood destroyers in the unit being purchased. It is protection against you the homebuyer purchasing a property that is about to be eaten to the ground!
The termites are active day and night so the amount of heat they generate in quantities is really quite impressive. Think of an animal inside the walls about the size of a raccoon and what heat that varmint would be giving off? Now understand that a colony of actively feeding termites can generate about as much heat as that animal and you can easily see that thermal imaging products will pick up the heat signature. If the professional inspector does not inform you that he or she will be using high-tech thermal imaging products for your home inspection call Thermal Master immediately. Do not allow the inspector to continue since regardless of the amount of experience possessed as the inspection cannot be thoroughly completed without thermal imaging detection. Contract only with a professional inspector such as Thermal Master that utilize the technology at hand to locate these wood-eaters and then have them destroyed aswell as a 5-10 year chemical-barrier be placed around the perimeter of the home. Thermal Master is a local and experienced professional inspection firm that will guarantee the residence as being free from termites and other wood-destroying organisms or will inform you that the property is being eaten up! Either way you will be comforted knowing that the real inspection was completed and that you may not make an informed buying decision.