Thermography Report Route Finder for Your Thermal Data
Answer four questions to see which thermography report fits your job, what you receive and who can rely on it.
Thermography Services (UK) reports on thermal data in more than one way, because not every job needs the same document. Some clients need a certified report that an insurer or a warranty provider will accept. Others need an expert opinion for their own decisions, or text they can build their own report on.
The route finder on this page asks up to four questions about your job: who captures the data, what you need back, what evidence of capture exists and whether you write your own report. It then shows the route that fits, what you receive on it and who can rely on the result.
See what you receive, who can rely on it and what we need from you.
Thermal data reaches us in very different states. Sometimes we carry out the survey ourselves, and the report that follows is certified as a matter of course. Often, though, the data has been captured by someone else: a drone operator, a solar contractor, a facilities team or a Level 1 thermographer. What can be said about that data, and who is entitled to rely on what is said, depends on how it was captured and what evidence of that capture exists. A report an insurer will accept needs more behind it than a report written for your own maintenance planning. That is why our report writing service runs on three routes, a Certified Report, a Professional Opinion and a Data Review, and why the first conversation is always about which one fits.
The route finder below holds that first conversation with you. It takes a few moments, asks nothing technical and stores nothing. Each answer lights up the path on the map beside it, so you can see where your job sits among the options.
At the end you see your route and exactly what is delivered on it: the documents you receive, who may rely on them, what they are suitable for and what we need from you to begin. You can also select any route on the map to compare it with your own. If your survey has not been carried out yet, say so when you reach the third question. A data collection protocol issued before the survey keeps the Certified route open, and it is far easier to arrange at that point than afterwards.
Answer four questions to see which thermography report fits your job, what you receive and who can rely on it.
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Talk Through Your Route
Once you know your route, tell us the subject, who captured the data and what the report has to satisfy, whether that is your own client, an insurer or a warranty provider. If the survey has not been carried out yet, tell us first and the data collection protocol comes to you before you start. If the finder left you between two routes, say so. We will confirm which routes are open to your data before we quote.
Answer up to four questions
The Report Route Finder
Four questions decide which route a job takes. None of them is technical, and you can change an answer at any point with Back one step.
The first asks who captures the thermal data. Where our own team carries out the survey, the report is certified and the finder stops there. Where you or your operator capture it, the remaining questions apply.
The second asks what you need back. A first look at the data, to learn whether it is worth taking further, is a Data Review. A full analysis of the findings carries on to the third question.
The third is the one that matters most: is there signed evidence of how the data was captured? Certification is a statement about the data and the analysis together, so we need to know the capture was done properly as well as seeing the result. That evidence is a data collection protocol signed before the survey or, from a thermographer qualified to Level 1 or above, a signed statement that comes with the data. Solar PV always needs the protocol. If the survey has not been carried out yet, choose that answer and the finder shows how the protocol comes first.
The fourth applies only where certification is not available. It asks whether you will write the report under your own name. If you will, the Professional Opinion comes with un-named working text for your report. If not, you receive the signed opinion alone.
Your route appears as soon as the last answer is given.
After You Find Your Route
From route to quotation
What Happens After the Finder
The finder shows where your job is likely to sit. It is a guide, not a commitment on either side. The route itself is confirmed in our quotation, in writing, before any work begins, so you know what you will receive before you commit.
For a Certified Report or a Professional Opinion we then need the original thermal files, with their temperature data intact, and whatever was recorded on the day. We check the data when it arrives. If it supports the route quoted, the analysis goes ahead. If something falls short of what certification needs, we tell you plainly what it is and why, and you choose whether to correct and resubmit the data or to continue as a Professional Opinion at the same fee. A route is never changed without your agreement.
A Data Review is simpler. It is ordered and paid for at the outset, and needs only images we can view, the site and the capture date.
Whichever route applies, the documents we sign carry our name and our Level 3 certification, and they are passed on only complete and unaltered. Working text and a Data Review carry no name at all, because they are for your own use.
