Thermal Imaging

The Greening Chinnor group are pleased to announce that the 2014 Thermal Imaging task was brought to a successful conclusion with the extremely well attended open evening on Wednesday 12^th March. It is fair to say that it has been a steep learning curve for everybody involved. From learning how to use the camera and software to putting together reports for all of the buildings imaged. To make thermal imaging a complete success you really need cold dry weather. Unfortunately this was severely lacking towards the end of January. However the rain gods did give us some brief periods of respite   

How did we do?
We carried out Thermal Imaging over 7 nights from Monday 20^th January on 25 households and 5 public buildings including the Village Centre and Parish Office. We took 481 thermal images using a camera kindly loaned to us by Haddenham in Transition. All of the collected data was put together in a bespoke report for each residence which was discussed with the householder and then subsequently emailed to them. Our feedback from the householders has been extremely positive with lots of “ I thought that we were losing heat there” type comments and even more importantly people starting to plan actions  of how to save wasting energy.  

Moving forward to next winter, we already are starting to collect details of our next tranche of people who would like to avail themselves of this free service. We will be asking for names in the October issue of the pump so watch this space.

Finally our thanks to everybody who help make this a success.

Alan Brawn
Greening Chinnor