I picked up an IR camera recently, now that they've sunk to the low-low price of "it's practically free". I bought it specifically for a project I'll cover on a future post, but for a test run I decided to go around my house and look for energy leaks.
Like this energy leak, for instance.
I'm pretty sure that the insulation contractor who worked on the addition on my house ran out of fiberglass batts when they got to this end and just decided that they didn't care enough to go get more.
There's also this gap in the middle of the same ceiling, which seems a bit peculiar.
I'm not too concerned about it though, partly because it's a pretty small area that isn't actually leaking all that much heat, and partly because there's no access to this space without tearing off the roof and/or ceiling, and I'm sure not gonna deal with that.
Speaking of roofs and/or ceilings, it's rather amusing to see the shadow of the solar panel through the roof of my car hole.
I really need to insulate in here, it gets oppressively hot during the summer to the point where I can't go out and get any work done, and that's really dragged down my hobby productivity. Interestingly I had assumed that the walls would also be letting in gobs of heat, but it appears not to be the case: the wall in the bottom of this picture is in direct sunlight and was something like 50c on the outside, but with nothing but a stud bay air gap and some drywall on the inside, there's really not much heat making it through compared with what's blasting through the roof.
I'm still going to insulate both, though.
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