Many homes and business's throughout Utah have radiant heat system defects that have gone undetected.
Radiant heating systems are installed in many floors and ceilings of homes throughout Utah. The continuous hot water supply pipes for these type of systems are not visible to the eye and are unable to be monitored (on a continuing basis) in order to ensure that the piping is always functioning properly and continues to remain leak-free. Something as important as (concealed) radiant heat piping should always be monitored on an annual basis. An unknown radiant heating system leak can waste energy and cause major property damage if not repaired in a timely manner. Locating the exact location of a leaking hot water pipe (which is buried under a concrete slab) can be quite time consuming and very costly. It can take quite the physical process of tearing up or breaking up big areas of the flooring in order to locate the exact location of a leaking hot water supply pipe. If the location of an embedded leaking pipe is not found quickly and accurately, floors can often end up becoming excessively settled, displaced and severely damaged and very costly to repair. I’m finding that many of the older style steel and copper floor pipes (30 years or more) are now failing and causing serious damage to residential structures without anyone even knowing about this concealed defect until the moisture issue becomes quite obvious or until I show up with my infrared camera.
As an added benefit, Utah Infrared Home Inspections includes Radiant Heat System Inspections with all Home and Building Inspections.
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