Call Aardvark Home Inspections if you want to save your walls. For years I have been tracking down and diagnosing water leaks for homeowners. The problem is that they usually call a plumber first. The problem I have found with most (and I want to emphasize, not all, but most) plumbers is that they convince you the only way to find a leak is to open up your walls. Now, that is only half true. Yes, they will need access to FIX the leak most likely, but it seems they never know where to look first. In most cases they call me after 2 or 3 plumbers have come and cut out several areas “likely” to contain plumbing. Well, wouldn’t it be nice to KNOW BEFORE they cut out your wall that the leaking plumbing lines are back there? Thermal imaging can do that. I have yet to meet any leak detection company that carries their own thermal camera. So, in fact we get calls from select plumbing companies in the Austin area that use Aardvark Home Inspections for just this reason.
Plumbing companies aren’t going to buy $12,000 cameras for their plumbers out in the field to be responsible for. Can you imagine the expense of buying all those cameras and insuring them? Can you imagine the owner stressed out every morning wondering if his plumbers are going to leave the cameras in an unlocked van? Can you imagine the owner sending out his expensive cameras and worrying all day about dropped the cameras? Nether can they, so they don’t buy the thermal cameras. It simply is not worth their bottom line to do that when they can push that cost onto you. And they do. Once they fix the leak, they are done. All those open holes in your walls are now YOUR problem. Well, if you call Aardvark Home Inspections to diagnose your problem, then you contact the plumbers explaining to them where the leak is or at least where the wet walls (walls that contain plumbing) are. YOU are now in control. Why spend more money than you have to? Why put yourself through the added stress of extra holes in your wall? You don’t have to! Call Aardvark Home Inspections the moment you discover a water leak.
The beauty of the thermal camera and water leaks is the elimination factor. The elimination factor is that unlike a plumber without thermal imaging technology, AHI eliminates the guessing game. As stated earlier, a plumber will start opening the walls based on hunches. But a lot of times they are opening up unnecessary walls and leaving you with a mess to clean up later. The elimination of over 90% of these areas SAVES YOU MONEY. So even in the rare case that the leak is not found at inspection, the thermal imaging technology still has done its job. You are more informed and can now take the best course of action. At the very least, we will find out where your wet walls are so that the plumber doesn’t have to do any unnecessary plundering. Again, this saves you time and money.
Thermal imaging is a great for finding water leaks. That is why Aardvark Home Inspections has worked with journeyman and master plumbers for years to better understand plumbing systems as a whole. There is a real opportunity for you to save money when this instance arrives. Don’t get ripped off! We have the experience and are not looking for the plumbing work. So there is no incentive for us to prescribe costly fixes. As mentioned before we have built relationships with quality plumbers in the Austin area. I have personally prescreened them for you. That’s right, I give you what I consider to be the best plumbers in Austin. I argue that this is much better than a blind pick in the phone book.
