BLACK+DECKER Thermal Leak Detection Device - Find Hidden Air Leaks in Your Home

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Germany on Jul 30, 2023

Lynne: Useful checking my living room, looking at window coverings and gaps around doors

Australia on Jun 18, 2023

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France on May 20, 2023

RMac: The product is well built, arrived quickly and I wanted to use it for tracing draughts around windows, kitchen units, doors etc. The temperature change settings are easy to understand and you set the initial temperature by simply pointing and holding the trigger on. With a little bit of practice you will find it easy to set up for the task you have. The issue is to remember when using it for things like draughts is that all internal rooms have layers of heat as all hot air rises. So if you trigger the tool at a point on the wall to set it then move the tool down 30cm it may well tell you that it is colder on the lower reading. This is not necessarily due to a draught but the ambient temperature in the room being naturally colder towards the floor. It works best if you take readings left to right of the setting temp rather than up and down. This means that you would be better running it along the bottom of a door or the windowsill rather than up and down the sides. I quickly identified areas where the colder air was in my rooms but trying to find the culprit air flow was a bit more difficult as the colder air would tend to drop which meant that I may find a cold spot but the air...

United Kingdom on Apr 29, 2019

film spotter: I hardly need write a good review as others have noted the use of this device, but I will add a few comments.

Q: How does this device differ from a standard infra-red thermometer? Why not just use one of those to identify cold bridges, leaks etc?
A: you could, but it would be much harder. This device allows you to keep your eye on the area you are measuring and when the beam of light cast upon it changes colour you will know that the temperature measured has varied by half a degree, or 3 degrees, or 5, depending on the switch setting. Moving between these tolerances you can soon build up an accurate picture of where the cold and hot spots are and what might be "false triggers". You COULD do that with a standard digital thermometer, but the rapid changes of 0.1 degree would be hard to keep an eye on and to mentally collate into a picture of varying temperature. This device makes that much easier. That said, it does still require some thought to interpret what you are seeing, combined with altering the tolerance as you work.

Thoughts on technique:
1. If you are for example checking a wall for cold spots (e.g. cavity wall bridges) then you need to sweep...

United Kingdom on Feb 04, 2017

John Salazar: Neat toy, You point the device at for instance your wall and it sends a green light to indicate where its measuring.

When you scan over a temperature variation the color of the LED changes either to red to indicate it senses a higher temp or purple to indicate a lower temp at the same time you get a the temperature displayed on the units LCD screen.

A few years ago I had a company run CAT5, coax and a a ton of Siemens wire for some security cameras along with satellite TV an alarm and some updated phone lines. Well it turns out that in the process of running all that cable they made a TON of air leaks everywhere.

Found a spot where when they drilled through the fire stop they messed up the insulation and that area was 10 degrees warmer than the surrounding areas you could feel the heat coming in from the outlet they put there.

While playing with the scanner I noticed that the Smarthome keypadlincs and other smarthome light switches I have generate a TON of heat!

For instance a keypadlinc that is a x10 transmitter only read 85.5 degrees compared to the surrounding wall that was 9 degrees cooler.

A keypadlinc that contains a built in dimmer...

United States on Sep 16, 2010

Steve: I've used thermal guns before but this 3 color light indicator is way cool. It makes checking temp delta's very quick. With the old gun (with laser pointer), it was, point at the area you wanted to test and then look at the meter, repoint the meter to a new location and look at the meter again. With this TLD100, it was just move the light around the area you are checking and the only time you have to actually look at the meter is when the color changes. It completely eliminates this looking back and forth at the target, then the meter, then the target, then the meter,...

A comparison would be the difference between using a box end wrench or a rachet wrench to remove bolts. It makes the process much simpler and faster.

I bought my unit at the wrong time of year when the outside temp was, at maximum, only 30 degrees different then the inside temp so even though I found some leaks, they were minor. My house is about 40 years old and since I bought it a few years ago, I installed storm doors and had added insulation to the attic. All the windows and doors are relatively new and from what I can tell, this house is relatively tight. Even though I didn't find any major...

United States on Apr 25, 2010