Comprehensive presale or pre purchase building inspections and preventative maintenance reporting
If you would like more information on our comprehensive reporting options available visit www.leakdetective.co.nz. Our services include free estimates to repair defects that we may find while reporting. These estimates are available to the client at no additional cost and are produced by one of our groups contracted, experienced, Weather Tight Master Builder inspectors. These estimates can be extremely helpful when negotiating your property purchase and will provide you with a degree of confidence when dealing with the sale or purchase in order to give you a quantum of the repairs and a direction post reporting.
Property restoration & inspection process
The following reporting methods and applications are available to property owners that require solutions to resolve either the pre existing or suspected leak and moisture issues.
Firstly a survey of the house takes place assessing watertightness, the over all condition and the visual extent of the damage. Non-invasive moisture tests are carried out and documented in a comprehensive written report complete with photos and thermograms giving a full assessment of the building.
A second inspection will take place if the building is found to be leaking. Small areas of claddings and wall linings are removed to visualise the damage and invasive moisture testing takes place. Another comprehensive report is supplied to the home owner and the next phase of repair or claim can now commence.
Our building inspectors are qualified builders, building surveyors and certified level 1 thermographers. They are experienced in leaky building diagnostics. This experience is vital to analyse certain design aspects, building materials used and susceptible areas of a building prone to water ingress.
The second vital component is using the correct equipment. Leak detection chose to use FLIR B250 Infrared Thermal Imaging cameras, specifically designed for moisture detection and building diagnostics. There is no better tool available for scanning areas of concern, and visualising what is behind the wall linings.
Buildings may be quickly and thoroughly scanned using a FLIR B250 thermal imager, identifying problem areas that can't be seen by the naked eye. Infrared can detect the differences in temperature but it is almost impossible to decipher the anomalies found as either heat loss or moisture. This is why a moisture meter must be used to cross reference these findings.
The Trotec T2000s uses a series of moisture reading devices to ascertain moisture content within a particular building material. The TS 300 SDI sensor is used with the advantage of non destructive recording of moisture content. The TS 300 SDI is placed at right angles to the surface being tested. The current measured value is shown in the digital display field of the T2000S. The display value is understood in digit numerical value.
The Trotec T2000s has 30 sensors and electrodes which allow many different parameters to be measured. Invasive moisture testing is measured in a percentage as the pins are actually inserted into one building material. Each building material has a specific density and which affects how moisture is measured. The Trotec T2000s has 500 different timber species and building materials, all with different density properties, stored in its computer. Once the sensors has been calibrated to read a particular building material, the moisture content can accurately be displayed as a percentage reading.
