{"id":502,"date":"2013-05-22T15:05:17","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T22:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.centuryrooftile.com\/solar-bay-area-roofing-blog\/?p=502"},"modified":"2015-04-07T13:15:53","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T20:15:53","slug":"thermal-leak-detection-roofing-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centuryrooftile.com\/solar-bay-area-roofing-blog\/thermal-leak-detection-roofing-repair\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay Area Thermal Leak Detection: The New Science of Roof Repair"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:right;padding: 0 0 10px 10px\" class=\"interactive_right\"><div class='button_holder_right'><iframe allowtransparency='true' frameborder='0' scrolling='no' src='\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets\/tweet_button.html?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcenturyrooftile.com%2Fsolar-bay-area-roofing-blog%2Fthermal-leak-detection-roofing-repair%2F&amp;text=Bay Area Thermal Leak Detection: The New Science of Roof Repair&amp;count=vertical&amp;lang=' style='width:65px; height:65px;' ><\/iframe><\/div><div class='button_holder_right'><iframe src='\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fcenturyrooftile.com%2Fsolar-bay-area-roofing-blog%2Fthermal-leak-detection-roofing-repair%2F&amp;layout=button_count&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=65&amp;action=like&amp;font=arial&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=21' scrolling='no' frameborder='0' style='border:none; overflow:hidden; width:65px; height:21px;' allowTransparency='true'><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><h2>New <a title=\"East Bay roofing contractors\" href=\"http:\/\/centuryrooftile.com\/\">Bay Area Roofing Repair<\/a> Technologies<\/h2>\n<p>Our Bay Area roofing repair experts have long known that the untrained eye is bad at identifying problem roof areas. It takes time and skill to be able to tell \u2013 just from a glance \u2013 whether a set of shingles needs to be replaced or repaired. It takes years in the field to develop an intuition for how certain types of leaks spread and what to do about them.<!--more--><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 435px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3ACambo_627.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"   \" title=\"Bay Area roofing\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/0\/00\/Cambo_627.jpg\" alt=\"Bay Area roofing\" width=\"425\" height=\"211\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">By Cam42 (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0) or GFDL (http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/copyleft\/fdl.html) ], via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>But even &#8220;expert roofers&#8221; are limited because we humans can only see in the visible light spectrum. As any astronomer (or good scientist) will tell you, non-visible wavelengths of light often reveal new phenomena and features, which can lead to progress \u2013 scientific and otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>A cool new technology, called thermal leak detection, is revolutionizing the <a title=\"Roofing repair Bay Area\" href=\"http:\/\/centuryrooftile.com\/roofproducts.html\">Bay Area roofing<\/a> industry. Through infrared detectors (which can \u201csee\u201d heat), these detectors can identify leaks, water damage, moisture problems and other trouble spots that the human eye cannot detect.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, let&#8217;s say a piece of electrical equipment or an HVAC unit is running \u201chot.\u201d The thermal leak detection technology can note such hot and cool anomalies.<\/p>\n<p>Infrared detection massively increases the efficiency of detection and repair. Here&#8217;s why:<\/p>\n<p>Imagine you&#8217;re looking at a 1,000 square foot roof that\u2019s leaking or decaying \u201csomewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An untrained homeowner might be able to spot a dark patch here or there. But he&#8217;d struggle to get a sense of the entire leak \u2013 much less know how to begin to fix it.<\/li>\n<li>An experienced roofing professional, on the other hand, could look at that same vantage, and she could see way more than you can.<\/li>\n<li>Thermal leak detection technology can immediately \u201csuss out\u201d the original leak as well as the deeper structures and temperature differences.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In some ways, it\u2019s the difference between an untrained person firing a gun blindly (homeowner trying to detect a leak); a skilled marksman firing (experienced professional using traditional tools of the craft, informed by years of experience and intuition); and a laser-guided missile (thermal leak detection).<\/p>\n<p>With this increased efficiency:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can laser-target the leak and not have to fix the entire roof.<\/li>\n<li>You can stop problems before they get worse.<\/li>\n<li>You can speed up the repair process and minimize overages and extra costs.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s also ultimately better for the environment, because the efficiency will lead to less waste production.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Find out more about whether thermal leak detection is right for your job. 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