Unexplained Heat Signatures in an Isolated Home

I found unexplained heat signatures inside the walls of the isolated rental property

I inspected alone. The job was simple enough on paper: a thermal audit of a foreclosure

in the Cascades before the bank listed it for auction. I've done this a hundred times.

I'm a certified home energy auditor, which sounds like a made-up title to most people,

but in the Pacific Northwest, where damp rot and insulation failure can turn a million-dollar

asset into a tear-down within five years, it's a necessary trade. My task was to go

in, set up my blowers to depressurize the house, walk through with

a FLIR thermal imaging camera, and document every draft, every missing batt