What can loose wall insulation and tutti frutti have in common?
Well, it depends on the temperature outside!
Think Little Richard --
Wop bop a loop bop a lop bom bom!
Tutti frutti, oh rutti,
Tutti frutti, oh rutti,
Tutti frutti, oh rutti,
Wop bop a loo bop a lop ba ba!
I suppose I could go on.
So, what do you think? Tutti frutti?
Sometimes different thermal image palettes lend different information, and this one surely does!
The temperature difference between indoors and out was only 13F. Ideally you want to see a 17F difference to get a good a good thermal image.
But this wall showed so much I thought I would make a record. The temperature differences aren't dramatic, but the colors are.
Imagine what it will look like in the cold of winter! Or a hotter day!
There is just one temperature location just for reference. So what is going on in the wall isn't dramatic because the temps aren't dramatic. The colors are relative one to another. But they are illustrative!
This is a tall balloon wall in a staircase. The insulation there is poorly placed, or loosely placed, or there are holes and gaps between places. It's hard to say.
But I expect that in the winter cold air will be felt moving down the staircase.
It isn't blowing cold air really. When you feel air like is air is moving, it is due to convection where warm and cold temperatures interact. Atmospheric convection is why the wind blows during thunderstorms. Hot and cold meet, moisture is produced, convection happens moving air faster and faster, and the wind blows!
It will be no different in this hallway, on a micro scale, with moving air.
My recommendation: sometimes Mighty Mo raises eyebrows. This is new construction. The insulation hasn't been there long. It will likely change more when the dew point inside the wall gets wet and freezes. I say to people who buy new homes to live in them for a year to experience all the seasons and see which areas are comfortable and which are not. And then, before the warranty expires, have it taken care of then.
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