Moisture Detection and Mapping in the United States

With sound workmanship in mind, nationally, most home inspections with meter moisture values and a moisture map run about $150 to $400. With sound workmanship in mind, adding thermal imaging and a full written report as a matter of course puts it at $250 to $600.

For a job done right, no, and anyone who says otherwise is overselling it. So the repair lasts, the camera reads surface temperature, and saturated sections often look cooler because evaporation cools them.

For a job done right, a pinless moisture meter reads through the surface using a capacitance reading, so it scans large areas fast without marks.

For a job done right, only with your permission, and only where moisture values justify it. Before the finish work begins, a borescope hole is about the size of a pen and more often than not goes in a spot that will be painted or hidden anyway.

So the repair lasts, you can, and an inexpensive meter will tell you wet from dry in a rough way.

For a job done right, more often than not yes when it is part of a covered loss and the mapping supports the mitigation work plan.

Before the finish work begins, we scan outward from the known saturated section until moisture values match unaffected material, in every direction including up and down.