The light beam changes to blue when it hits a spot of colder temperature (Photo courtesy of Black & Decker)
Soon, you’ll be able to buy
a sort of raygun to detect heating
leaks in your home. Jessi Ziegler reports on a Thermal Leak
Detector:
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Soon, you’ll be able to buy
a sort of raygun to detect heating
leaks in your home. Jessi Ziegler reports on a Thermal Leak
Detector:
This tool looks like a little toy raygun, and it shines beams of light
that read the temperature around your house.
Scott Pollard is the Senior Product Manager at Black and
Decker, which makes the tool. He says it’s really easy to use.
“Shine it on the wall, it starts off with a green light, and as they
move it from their wall to their window, or door, or around pipes,
or floor, or ceiling, the color will change to red if it hits a hot spot,
or blue if it hits a cold spot.”
And, if you think you the little leaks don’t really matter, well,
Pollard’s research shows that if you add up all the little cracks
and leaks in a typical home, it equals a hole the size of a
basketball.
The EPA says that homeowners can save 20% on their heating
and cooling costs if they seal air leaks and insulate their houses.
For The Environment Report, this is Jessi Ziegler.