When Winter approaches, each home will turn on their heater to keep their family warm and harmless from the cold breeze winter winds. But heater is a energy thirsty machine. It’s necessary to check for thermal leak so we can save more energy.

Here is a useful thermal leak detector from Black & Decker. It has a potential to help us save up to 20 percent of energy cost by using its super sensitive detector to detect leaks, even the distinction is only 1 degree.

Black and Decker's Thermal Leak Detector

The downside of this Thermal leak detector is you can’t do anything but to detect temperature changes with it. After you find the leak spots, you will need to find elsewhere for tool to fix the spots.

But at a $40 only, it’s pretty much will pay off if it can safe you 20 percent of overall energy cost.

Features:

• Easily spot hidden energy leaks in your home
• Shine the light on the wall and set the reference temperature.
• Move the light around your house. When the termp changes by 1, 5 or 10 degrees F (user adjustable), the light will change to red or blue to indicate a hot or cold spot
• Energy Star states that plugging the leaks and drafts in your home can save up to 20% off your heating and cooling energy costs
• Comes with bonus booklet showing easy ways to seal and insulate your home
• Displays surface temperature (of a wall, window, etc) on LCD screen in Fahrenheit or Celsius
• Available January 2009

Demonstration: Scanning The Window with Thermal Leak Detector

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