I got a letter in the mail from Eau Claire Insulation, with a picture of my house done with thermal…read moreimaging. Trying to drum up business by going to someone's house and taking a picture of it WITHOUT the owner's permission??? Yea, you actually lost my business.

Today we got mail from Eau Claire Insulation llc. It was a letter that included a picture of our…read morehouse done with thermal imaging. At first glance it just seemed a bit off, but it bothered me enough that I did some more looking at it before tossing it. My husband and I both found it weird, because it was telling us how much heat we were losing, but from the picture it looked like not only the house, but our sidewalk, the trees, our driveway- everything really. I get that it's a thermal image, so anything that's warm/hot is going to show up. However- that's why from everything I've seen thermal imaging here is generally best done in winter- really any time that you can get a big temperature difference between the interior and exterior- so seeing my plants on the porch and that everything around our house was just as warm as our house, says the image is worthless. Other than to people who look at it and just see the "energy leaks" they point out, and all it's good for to them is lightening their wallets in the short term to find out if they do in fact have energy leaks. It upsets me mostly because I'm sure this gambit works on some, because used correctly thermal imaging is a good tool for contractors. Your first clue when looking at a thermal image like this is if it looks like someone has blacked out your entire roof, which is a really easy/common place to lose heat, but in the hot summer sun I'm sure was very bright. Sending it in February and trying to pass it off as a cold weather picture it wouldn't work so well though. While I do like supporting local businesses, I'll never go here. You shouldn't have to trick people into using your company.