WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:01.520 Staying warm, Drew? 00:00:02.800 --> 00:00:03.760 Okay, you know what? 00:00:03.760 --> 00:00:05.360 We're gonna we're gonna do this out of order. 00:00:05.360 --> 00:00:05.920 Paul. 00:00:05.920 --> 00:00:06.640 Okay. 00:00:06.640 --> 00:00:09.200 Uh my Okay. 00:00:09.200 --> 00:00:09.840 All right, all right. 00:00:10.080 --> 00:00:10.480 Okay. 00:00:10.480 --> 00:00:12.240 I this is this is gonna take 00:00:13.500 --> 00:00:16.299 I'm I'm here I'm here for you, buddy. 00:00:16.299 --> 00:00:25.420 We've we've talked about this before, but my my particular type of mental illness has been through the roof. 00:00:25.699 --> 00:00:26.900 This past week. 00:00:26.900 --> 00:00:27.539 Okay. 00:00:27.779 --> 00:00:34.180 Um, I am very, very acutely aware of how much my furnace runs. 00:00:36.600 --> 00:00:37.399 Okay. 00:00:37.399 --> 00:00:38.840 It's okay, okay. 00:00:38.840 --> 00:00:40.600 Is that just something you just need to know? 00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:42.600 Are you trying to save money or are you just 00:00:44.719 --> 00:00:46.720 So it's oh God. 00:00:46.720 --> 00:00:48.399 It's like a combination of things. 00:00:48.399 --> 00:00:48.960 Okay. 00:00:48.960 --> 00:00:52.320 I'm a little less concerned about the saving money part. 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:52.640 Okay 00:00:54.220 --> 00:00:58.380 But at the same time, I'm not a fan of wasting money unnecessarily. 00:00:58.380 --> 00:00:59.420 Does that make sense? 00:00:59.500 --> 00:01:00.300 Yeah, I get it. 00:01:00.300 --> 00:01:00.780 Yeah. 00:01:00.780 --> 00:01:03.260 Like at the end of the day. 00:01:03.340 --> 00:01:15.979 If my furnace ran on an average two hours less a day, does that really equate massive savings on my heating bill for January? 00:01:16.320 --> 00:01:18.880 We're talking maybe twenty bucks. 00:01:18.960 --> 00:01:19.520 Right. 00:01:19.520 --> 00:01:20.320 Yeah. 00:01:20.320 --> 00:01:21.040 Right. 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:23.360 But it's the principle of it. 00:01:23.360 --> 00:01:23.760 Okay. 00:01:23.760 --> 00:01:24.320 Okay. 00:01:24.320 --> 00:01:24.880 Okay. 00:01:25.140 --> 00:01:27.220 So we've talked about this before. 00:01:27.220 --> 00:01:30.980 Like how much should your furnace be running? 00:01:30.980 --> 00:01:34.100 Now so I just want to go out and say in the record. 00:01:33.939 --> 00:01:35.140 I don't give a shit. 00:01:35.140 --> 00:01:37.060 My furnace could run 24 hours a day. 00:01:37.060 --> 00:01:39.539 As long as my house is warm, I'm good. 00:01:39.539 --> 00:01:40.420 I'm happy. 00:01:40.420 --> 00:01:44.979 In fact, I I I I raised the temperature just recently. 00:01:44.840 --> 00:01:49.720 Well, so here's how now here here's how I know I have a problem, okay? 00:01:49.720 --> 00:01:52.680 And again, this is like this is Drew's mental illness. 00:01:53.740 --> 00:01:56.460 I lowered the temperature of our thermostat. 00:01:56.460 --> 00:01:56.860 Okay. 00:01:56.860 --> 00:01:57.180 Right? 00:01:57.180 --> 00:02:01.180 I went from 68 to 65, had absolutely no impact on runtime. 00:02:01.180 --> 00:02:01.659 Oof. 00:02:01.760 --> 00:02:02.720 Oof, oof. 00:02:02.720 --> 00:02:03.920 No impact, right? 00:02:03.920 --> 00:02:07.119 I I'm pretty sure hold on, let me get my phone. 00:02:07.119 --> 00:02:09.520 Would you like to take a guess where mine what mine is at 00:02:09.820 --> 00:02:11.100 We've talked about this before. 00:02:11.100 --> 00:02:13.420 You're you're like a mid-70s boy. 00:02:13.420 --> 00:02:14.860 72 degrees right now. 00:02:14.860 --> 00:02:15.100 Yeah. 00:02:15.100 --> 00:02:15.420 Yeah. 00:02:15.420 --> 00:02:15.740 Yep. 00:02:15.740 --> 00:02:16.060 Yep. 00:02:16.060 --> 00:02:16.620 Yep. 00:02:16.860 --> 00:02:21.980 Now does your it it does that temperature get maintained in your home pretty easily? 00:02:21.940 --> 00:02:23.379 Yeah, I mean it does okay. 00:02:23.379 --> 00:02:28.260 I mean I best I could log on to the Eco B website and see how long my furnace has been running. 00:02:28.260 --> 00:02:28.660 Okay. 00:02:28.660 --> 00:02:31.780 I just I just I just uh I'm sure it's a lot. 00:02:31.780 --> 00:02:32.340 Hold on. 00:02:32.340 --> 00:02:33.060 Yeah, sure. 00:02:33.060 --> 00:02:34.660 Except O cookies, whatever. 00:02:34.660 --> 00:02:35.540 I don't care 00:02:35.820 --> 00:02:38.380 Now your home is much newer than mine. 00:02:38.380 --> 00:02:38.860 True. 00:02:38.860 --> 00:02:41.340 And installation technology has come a long way. 00:02:41.340 --> 00:02:44.300 So I'm willing to bet it doesn't run nearly as long as mine. 00:02:44.300 --> 00:02:44.700 Okay. 00:02:44.700 --> 00:02:46.700 Just based on that principle alone. 00:02:46.700 --> 00:02:47.260 All right. 00:02:47.260 --> 00:02:48.060 Let's see. 00:02:48.060 --> 00:02:50.060 System Monitor. 00:02:50.120 --> 00:02:58.040 Okay, uh so ts that can't be right, hold on. 00:02:58.040 --> 00:02:59.080 How do I get 00:02:59.540 --> 00:03:00.820 God damn, I hate this. 00:03:00.820 --> 00:03:01.540 I know you so much. 00:03:01.860 --> 00:03:04.340 Literally deja vu right now because you struggled with this last time. 00:03:04.340 --> 00:03:05.700 Thanks to EcoBee. 00:03:05.700 --> 00:03:06.340 Yeah, yeah. 00:03:06.500 --> 00:03:07.940 I just warntime report. 00:03:07.940 --> 00:03:08.500 Here we go. 00:03:08.500 --> 00:03:09.220 Okay. 00:03:09.420 --> 00:03:10.380 December? 00:03:10.380 --> 00:03:11.020 No. 00:03:11.020 --> 00:03:12.700 That's all of December. 00:03:12.860 --> 00:03:15.420 I want, I want, I want yesterday. 00:03:15.420 --> 00:03:16.460 I would take yesterday. 00:03:16.700 --> 00:03:20.620 Yeah, but I it won't show me the 00:03:21.500 --> 00:03:25.420 It gives me like how long it ran independently. 00:03:25.420 --> 00:03:26.780 It's running a lot, Drew. 00:03:26.780 --> 00:03:27.420 It's a lot. 00:03:27.420 --> 00:03:27.740 A lot. 00:03:27.740 --> 00:03:28.460 It's running a lot. 00:03:29.020 --> 00:03:29.500 Give me a number. 00:03:29.580 --> 00:03:30.220 I don't know. 00:03:30.220 --> 00:03:31.100 I don't have a number. 00:03:31.100 --> 00:03:31.980 It won't show me. 00:03:31.980 --> 00:03:35.900 It will show me how what how much it ran for each individual time. 00:03:35.700 --> 00:03:37.780 But it will not show me. 00:03:37.780 --> 00:03:39.379 Oh, they want you to do the math. 00:03:39.379 --> 00:03:41.140 They want me to do the math. 00:03:41.140 --> 00:03:42.180 Overview. 00:03:42.180 --> 00:03:45.940 Why why don't you just show me There's on an energy dashboard? 00:03:46.240 --> 00:03:49.520 Oh god, I hate this website so much. 00:03:49.520 --> 00:03:54.640 Just show me what the fucking goddamn. 00:03:55.520 --> 00:03:56.720 Because now you wanna know. 00:03:56.720 --> 00:03:57.920 Now now you want to know. 00:03:57.920 --> 00:04:00.320 Now you does his have to know. 00:04:00.640 --> 00:04:05.440 What nope? 00:04:05.440 --> 00:04:06.080 Nope. 00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:06.640 Nope. 00:04:06.640 --> 00:04:08.000 Okay, let's see. 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:10.560 Well, I'm uh running more than uh 00:04:10.860 --> 00:04:11.340 Yeah. 00:04:11.340 --> 00:04:12.459 Does it say it on your app? 00:04:12.459 --> 00:04:13.340 Do you have an app? 00:04:13.660 --> 00:04:14.459 Let me let me look. 00:04:14.459 --> 00:04:16.859 Yes, I do have an app, but I'm afraid it's gonna be the exact same thing. 00:04:17.419 --> 00:04:21.660 I feel like the app is probably for people who aren't like data nerds. 00:04:21.660 --> 00:04:23.180 Oh, okay. 00:04:22.800 --> 00:04:23.520 So hold on. 00:04:23.520 --> 00:04:24.639 It du alright, it does. 00:04:24.639 --> 00:04:25.120 It does. 00:04:25.120 --> 00:04:26.159 Let's see if I can go. 00:04:26.159 --> 00:04:31.840 Well, so far today, it's ran okay, okay. 00:04:32.199 --> 00:04:35.960 On average it's been running ten point six hours a day. 00:04:35.960 --> 00:04:36.680 Okay. 00:04:36.680 --> 00:04:43.479 So to put that in perspective, ours has been hovering anywhere between eleven and a half and twelve and a half hours a day. 00:04:43.479 --> 00:04:44.039 Oof. 00:04:44.039 --> 00:04:44.360 Ooh. 00:04:44.360 --> 00:04:46.759 Now your house is a little bigger than mine, I think. 00:04:46.620 --> 00:04:47.740 So yeah. 00:04:47.819 --> 00:04:50.940 I I mean that that's part of it. 00:04:50.940 --> 00:04:59.900 That's part of it, but still consider the fact that you're running a much like almost 10 degrees warmer than we are. 00:04:59.920 --> 00:05:07.680 And I couldn't guarantee you that me cranking my temperature wouldn't make it run more because my house is just not retaining heat. 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:12.800 Yeah, so the way that it should yesterday it ran almost 10 hours total. 00:05:12.880 --> 00:05:14.080 All right. 00:05:14.260 --> 00:05:15.220 All right. 00:05:15.220 --> 00:05:21.060 So again, I I am a if there's one thing people know about Drew Fergwell is that he is a data-driven individual. 00:05:21.060 --> 00:05:22.100 He's built his intelligence. 00:05:22.039 --> 00:05:23.879 entire career on top of it. 00:05:23.879 --> 00:05:25.720 So so I ask people. 00:05:25.720 --> 00:05:27.080 I ask people like you. 00:05:27.080 --> 00:05:34.280 And there are people that follow me on Instagram and there's people that I talk to on Blue Sky and there's people that I talk to at the gym. 00:05:34.120 --> 00:05:38.599 That have similar size homes built at similar times and we compare notes. 00:05:38.599 --> 00:05:44.599 And some people are like, yeah, mine runs six and a half hours a day, you know, mine runs ten hours a day. 00:05:44.820 --> 00:05:48.980 And look, it is cold as shit in Ohio right now. 00:05:48.980 --> 00:05:49.700 Oh, it is. 00:05:49.700 --> 00:05:50.740 Yeah, yeah. 00:05:50.740 --> 00:05:59.460 But but again, where where my anxiety and mental illness go is there's something wrong with my house. 00:05:59.440 --> 00:05:59.920 Okay. 00:05:59.920 --> 00:06:00.240 Okay. 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:06.160 Now again, there there's there's a culmination of factors here because last winter we had furnace trouble. 00:06:06.160 --> 00:06:08.720 We had trouble where like the furnace would run. 00:06:08.760 --> 00:06:09.720 And then it would shut off. 00:06:09.720 --> 00:06:11.480 It would run and then it would shut off. 00:06:11.720 --> 00:06:14.760 And it was they call that short cycling. 00:06:14.760 --> 00:06:17.480 And it was because like our flame sensor was dirty. 00:06:20.840 --> 00:06:29.080 So, like when it runs and then stops and then immediately starts back up like 15 minutes later, I'm like, is my furnace broken again? 00:06:29.080 --> 00:06:32.520 It is, it is getting the house to temperature. 00:06:32.820 --> 00:06:37.140 But my house is not maintaining that temperature long enough. 00:06:37.140 --> 00:06:37.700 Got it. 00:06:37.700 --> 00:06:38.660 Yeah. 00:06:39.220 --> 00:06:45.140 So, of course, when's the best time to call an insulation company? 00:06:45.380 --> 00:06:48.419 the middle the middle of a fucking cold snow, right? 00:06:49.060 --> 00:06:55.380 So I'm I'm I'm currently at a place where I know my furnace is working. 00:06:55.580 --> 00:06:56.700 It is working. 00:06:56.700 --> 00:06:58.540 I wish it wouldn't run as much. 00:06:58.540 --> 00:07:05.660 And and to be fair, in the wintertime, or I'm sorry, in the summertime, our air conditioner also runs a lot. 00:07:06.280 --> 00:07:10.440 Now, there are several parts of my house that are problematic. 00:07:10.440 --> 00:07:11.240 Okay. 00:07:11.240 --> 00:07:14.520 The number one offender in my house is our bedroom. 00:07:14.520 --> 00:07:19.080 So to kind of describe this, we have a first floor master bedroom. 00:07:20.600 --> 00:07:25.240 My house has three crawl spaces. 00:07:25.240 --> 00:07:25.720 Wow. 00:07:25.720 --> 00:07:26.120 Okay. 00:07:26.120 --> 00:07:28.520 One of those crawl spaces is under our bedroom. 00:07:28.520 --> 00:07:28.680 So 00:07:29.220 --> 00:07:32.259 First of all, crawl space crawl spaces get fucking cold. 00:07:32.259 --> 00:07:33.940 Now it's got earth. 00:07:33.940 --> 00:07:34.660 Like yeah. 00:07:34.660 --> 00:07:34.900 Yeah. 00:07:35.220 --> 00:07:36.580 It's like the earth is like right there. 00:07:36.580 --> 00:07:36.900 So like 00:07:37.560 --> 00:07:50.840 Right off to my right hand side is a crawl space access panel that I that I basically built a door over that cold air does seep out of down here in my office. 00:07:51.400 --> 00:07:56.840 But that entire section of the house where our bedroom is is over a crawl space. 00:07:56.840 --> 00:08:01.480 Now on paper, everything is kind of how it needs to be. 00:08:01.480 --> 00:08:05.480 First of all, the crawl the crawl space is encapsulated because of radar mitigation. 00:08:05.400 --> 00:08:14.120 Second of all, there is fiberglass insulation running the entire uh the entire like width of the crawl space. 00:08:14.120 --> 00:08:19.880 So all the way from the bottom of the floor to the top of the floor, Joyce, is fiberglass insulation. 00:08:19.639 --> 00:08:22.919 And then there are bats of insulation in the roof. 00:08:22.919 --> 00:08:23.240 Okay. 00:08:23.240 --> 00:08:24.600 Of like the crawl space, right? 00:08:24.600 --> 00:08:26.919 So in between the floor joys. 00:08:26.919 --> 00:08:27.240 But 00:08:27.920 --> 00:08:30.080 That's underneath our bedroom. 00:08:30.080 --> 00:08:33.360 And then our bedroom does not have a floor above it. 00:08:33.360 --> 00:08:35.039 It is a vaulted ceiling 00:08:35.720 --> 00:08:42.440 So it is bitterly cold in our bedroom or boiling hot in the summer, just because 00:08:43.620 --> 00:08:47.459 It's there's three exterior walls, a crawl space, and a vaulted ceiling. 00:08:47.459 --> 00:08:49.860 Like, what do you what do you even do for that? 00:08:49.860 --> 00:08:52.100 Now I now when I have like 00:08:52.440 --> 00:08:56.840 run cable in my house or have electricians come or like when they mounted the TV to the wall. 00:08:56.840 --> 00:08:58.360 There's insulation in the wall. 00:08:58.360 --> 00:08:59.160 I've seen it. 00:08:59.160 --> 00:09:00.680 I seen it. 00:09:02.120 --> 00:09:04.280 But it just it feels like it doesn't do anything. 00:09:04.280 --> 00:09:12.280 Do you need like one of those like vent balancing so you get like more hot air or like more HVAC air coming through those vents? 00:09:12.819 --> 00:09:22.259 Well, I I will say that like if you if if my furnace is running and you go out to like our entryway where there's a where there's a vent and you hold your hand over the vent, the air's warm. 00:09:22.259 --> 00:09:23.620 It's blowing warm air. 00:09:23.480 --> 00:09:23.800 Yeah. 00:09:23.800 --> 00:09:32.680 Go into my bedroom and put your hand over the vent, it's much colder because that ductwork has to travel through my cold crawl space to get there. 00:09:33.800 --> 00:09:36.600 Now, also my thermostat isn't in a great place. 00:09:36.600 --> 00:09:38.520 It's in my entryway, which you've seen my house. 00:09:38.520 --> 00:09:39.880 Like it's right by the front door. 00:09:39.880 --> 00:09:40.920 That's drafty. 00:09:40.920 --> 00:09:42.200 It's a big open space. 00:09:42.200 --> 00:09:42.760 There's like 00:09:43.140 --> 00:09:48.420 a floor above it, like it's a it I my entire first floor is basically an open floor plan, right? 00:09:48.420 --> 00:09:50.820 There's very mint very little walls 00:09:50.839 --> 00:09:55.079 Um, on the one hand, I like that it adds a lot of natural light to the space. 00:09:55.079 --> 00:09:56.680 Um, I like it. 00:09:56.680 --> 00:10:00.360 We have giant floor-to-ceiling windows, and the windows are newer. 00:10:00.459 --> 00:10:03.180 I want to say those windows are probably six or seven years old. 00:10:03.180 --> 00:10:06.060 It was done not long before we moved in. 00:10:06.220 --> 00:10:11.660 So, you know, and again, I go around to the windows, I feel around the seams, I don't feel a draft. 00:10:11.660 --> 00:10:13.980 The windows are a little cooler to the touch, but 00:10:14.240 --> 00:10:16.320 It's fucking minus eleven outside. 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:17.040 Like yeah. 00:10:17.680 --> 00:10:18.560 What do you even do? 00:10:18.560 --> 00:10:19.680 Yeah. 00:10:19.680 --> 00:10:25.040 So uh I've been calling insulation companies and I have some I have some men 00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:35.120 And and maybe some women, I don't know, coming out to my home next week to do some comprehensive energy audit type things where they're gonna like look around, make recommendations, like 00:10:35.620 --> 00:10:36.980 spray foam this. 00:10:37.700 --> 00:10:47.540 I know people have I know people who've actually had like insulation put around their vents when they're going through like that kind of stuff to keep the the air warmer as it's going through. 00:10:47.860 --> 00:10:48.260 Yeah. 00:10:48.260 --> 00:10:48.740 I mean 00:10:48.940 --> 00:10:52.060 In in the back part of my basement, some of our like stuff's wrapped. 00:10:52.060 --> 00:10:54.060 Maybe that's what we need to do to help with that. 00:10:54.620 --> 00:10:55.580 Yeah, yeah, that wrap. 00:10:55.580 --> 00:10:58.220 It's like yeah, it's like that wrap they use on the outside of a home. 00:10:58.220 --> 00:11:03.260 Like they they can do that uh on the vents to help keep them insulated. 00:11:03.680 --> 00:11:04.720 Yeah. 00:11:04.720 --> 00:11:06.720 Paul, that's not good enough. 00:11:06.720 --> 00:11:07.440 That's not good enough. 00:11:07.760 --> 00:11:08.960 That's not good enough for me. 00:11:08.960 --> 00:11:11.200 Okay. 00:11:13.520 --> 00:11:15.200 I went shopping. 00:11:15.200 --> 00:11:16.480 Okay. 00:11:16.820 --> 00:11:20.340 What did you buy? 00:11:26.420 --> 00:11:28.580 Sorry, sorry. 00:11:30.880 --> 00:11:38.480 So much of this podcast, you putting a link in the show notes and me laughing uncontrollably. 00:11:38.760 --> 00:11:40.280 Okay, here we go. 00:11:40.280 --> 00:11:48.840 Uh this is the FLIR 1 thermal imaging camera for iOS smartphones, iPhone 15 and newer with USB-C. 00:11:48.660 --> 00:11:51.220 24 by 180 super resolution. 00:11:51.220 --> 00:11:53.460 80x60 native IR. 00:11:53.460 --> 00:11:58.020 You bought a thermal imaging camera for your phone. 00:11:58.020 --> 00:11:58.980 Okay. 00:11:59.440 --> 00:12:01.040 This is not a review. 00:12:01.040 --> 00:12:03.200 This is a this is a warning. 00:12:03.200 --> 00:12:05.440 This is is this is the cry for help. 00:12:05.440 --> 00:12:05.920 No. 00:12:05.920 --> 00:12:08.240 This this this is this is a warning. 00:12:08.240 --> 00:12:09.200 Okay. 00:12:09.220 --> 00:12:19.380 Paul, when we had our home inspected, I was entranced by my home inspector who had a legit, by the way, FLER is a company. 00:12:19.420 --> 00:12:25.019 uh they are sort of recognized as the one of the market leaders in making infrared and thermal cameras. 00:12:25.019 --> 00:12:25.420 Okay. 00:12:25.420 --> 00:12:25.740 Okay. 00:12:25.740 --> 00:12:26.220 Okay. 00:12:26.220 --> 00:12:28.459 He had a handheld unit. 00:12:28.620 --> 00:12:38.700 That he went around and like he turned on the heat, he turned on the air conditioning, he turned on our faucets and was able to look through that and be like, Yep, you got hot water, yep, you got cold air, this vent works. 00:12:39.120 --> 00:12:46.240 I was like, this and like he even turned on the underfloor heating in our bathroom and could see the individual coils. 00:12:46.240 --> 00:12:46.560 Okay. 00:12:46.560 --> 00:12:46.880 Okay. 00:12:46.880 --> 00:12:49.279 That that was like a core memory for me. 00:12:49.279 --> 00:12:51.279 I mean, because because I'm a nerd. 00:12:51.279 --> 00:12:52.560 I like nerdy stuff. 00:12:52.560 --> 00:12:53.519 Mm-hmm. 00:12:53.779 --> 00:13:02.180 So I thought to myself, how would I really know where the problem areas are in my home? 00:13:02.760 --> 00:13:12.280 For the love of God, do not look because you cannot unsee 00:13:12.560 --> 00:13:13.280 Mm-hmm. 00:13:13.280 --> 00:13:18.320 Where the cold spots are in your house in the middle of a cold spell. 00:13:20.240 --> 00:13:23.120 Now, as a piece of technology, this is pretty cool. 00:13:23.120 --> 00:13:28.160 By the way, that little handheld unit with built-in monitor and everything, like they sell those. 00:13:28.640 --> 00:13:33.120 Depending on how much IR resolution you want, they go anywhere from 00:13:33.240 --> 00:13:37.160 $400 to like $5,000. 00:13:37.160 --> 00:13:39.000 Like it's not a cheap thing. 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:41.480 Now there's off-brands, don't get me wrong. 00:13:41.740 --> 00:13:44.780 But I was actually intrigued by this little device. 00:13:44.780 --> 00:13:47.980 It actually plugs directly into your iPhone. 00:13:47.980 --> 00:13:50.300 You download the Flear app. 00:13:50.540 --> 00:13:53.899 And it works pretty fucking good. 00:13:53.899 --> 00:13:59.260 So I can plug this into my phone and I can point it at my wall. 00:13:59.260 --> 00:14:04.220 And I immediately see the temperature differential as gradients. 00:14:04.420 --> 00:14:14.980 But what's also really interesting is because this is a FLIR camera and you have the FLIR app, it can also estimate the reading. 00:14:15.339 --> 00:14:17.420 of the temperature that it's looking at. 00:14:17.420 --> 00:14:17.899 Okay. 00:14:17.899 --> 00:14:27.899 So like for example, there's a little spot next to my patio door right along the baseboard of my trim where there's a hole in the drywall behind the baseboard. 00:14:28.140 --> 00:14:29.020 Okay. 00:14:29.020 --> 00:14:31.900 So guess guess what I did? 00:14:31.900 --> 00:14:35.580 Ripped out my baseboard and patched the fucking drywall. 00:14:35.580 --> 00:14:35.900 And 00:14:35.959 --> 00:14:46.360 By the way, that's just one spot that I looked at with this fucking camera that now my fucking OCD nightmare mental illness. 00:14:46.360 --> 00:14:49.320 Holy shit, my house is drafty. 00:14:48.920 --> 00:14:53.560 Fucking brain can't unsee. 00:14:53.560 --> 00:14:56.440 So does this thing do what it's supposed to do? 00:14:56.440 --> 00:14:57.480 Yes. 00:14:57.480 --> 00:14:59.000 Has it helped me 00:14:59.840 --> 00:15:01.760 No. 00:15:01.760 --> 00:15:02.880 No. 00:15:02.880 --> 00:15:07.120 Now you know where our everything all the Now I know how bad it is. 00:15:07.120 --> 00:15:10.080 Now i again it does this on a gradient. 00:15:10.080 --> 00:15:12.800 So like when you're sh when you pointed at something 00:15:12.759 --> 00:15:16.120 Things that are warmer appear hotter on the color spectrum. 00:15:16.120 --> 00:15:19.079 Things that are colder appear darker on the spectrum. 00:15:19.079 --> 00:15:20.199 But it's relative. 00:15:20.199 --> 00:15:25.079 So like if I point it at my window and there's something colder than the window, 00:15:25.520 --> 00:15:31.520 That shows up as darker, but then if I shine it at the wall, the window becomes darker, the other thing becomes darker. 00:15:31.520 --> 00:15:34.320 So it's all kind of relative to what you're looking at. 00:15:34.779 --> 00:15:38.860 But as as a piece of technology, it's pretty cool. 00:15:38.860 --> 00:15:43.980 And I could see there being some use for it outside of like this current scenario. 00:15:43.980 --> 00:15:44.300 Um 00:15:45.300 --> 00:15:47.460 But but it it's actually pretty cool. 00:15:47.460 --> 00:15:51.460 So it it does exactly what you expect it to do. 00:15:51.460 --> 00:15:59.860 I think if if you were interested in getting a thermal camera, this can save you at least a few hundred dollars over a handheld unit. 00:15:59.740 --> 00:16:12.300 it uh and it does it does the thing now uh it is not powered by your usb c connection it's rechargeable itself yeah so it it it it itself is rechargeable so you have to keep it charged 00:16:12.540 --> 00:16:18.380 Um, but one thing that's really cool, like when you're looking at the picture of it, there's like a dial right below the USB-C connector. 00:16:18.380 --> 00:16:19.180 Yeah. 00:16:19.180 --> 00:16:23.019 So that adjusts the depth of the USB-C connector. 00:16:23.540 --> 00:16:28.420 So like if you have a phone case and you want it to be flush, pretty clever. 00:16:29.780 --> 00:16:30.020 Yeah. 00:16:30.020 --> 00:16:32.020 So like more things should do that. 00:16:32.020 --> 00:16:32.180 Yeah. 00:16:32.340 --> 00:16:32.580 Yeah. 00:16:32.580 --> 00:16:33.140 So yeah. 00:16:33.140 --> 00:16:35.380 So that's pretty cool. 00:16:35.100 --> 00:16:38.700 So like I I have my stupid military tactical case on mine, right? 00:16:38.700 --> 00:16:40.380 And it's it's right up against the bottom. 00:16:40.380 --> 00:16:41.340 It's not going anywhere. 00:16:41.580 --> 00:16:44.780 If you did if you were running without a case, you could make it even thinner, right? 00:16:44.959 --> 00:16:46.720 So I thought that was pretty cool. 00:16:46.720 --> 00:16:47.600 That's clever. 00:16:47.600 --> 00:16:48.080 Yeah. 00:16:48.080 --> 00:16:48.560 Yeah. 00:16:48.560 --> 00:16:51.360 Um and the app is, you know, it's fine. 00:16:51.360 --> 00:16:56.000 It's not like it's not annoying or anything, but you like I can shine at all sorts of different things. 00:16:56.000 --> 00:16:58.800 Like I can actually see the warm air coming out of my computer 00:16:58.759 --> 00:17:02.519 Oh and like the space heaters that I've been having to run upstairs. 00:17:02.519 --> 00:17:04.760 Like I can see the warm air coming off of that. 00:17:04.760 --> 00:17:09.480 Um the the also the other thing that makes it a little more expensive is again, it's mostly um 00:17:09.839 --> 00:17:17.679 the resolution at which you can detect thermal uh gradients, which is what they call the IR resolution, that's what makes these more expensive than others 00:17:17.640 --> 00:17:18.120 Okay. 00:17:18.120 --> 00:17:22.680 So if you ever are curious, uh where are air leaks in my house? 00:17:22.680 --> 00:17:26.440 Oh by the way, don't get me started about if you go outside and look and look in 00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:37.640 So yeah, I'm gonna have some people come out and see like um and I've been watching videos about how they do like spray injection foam into your walls. 00:17:37.640 --> 00:17:37.960 Um 00:17:38.800 --> 00:17:42.880 I I think there will probably be some insulation work done in my house. 00:17:43.120 --> 00:17:44.000 I think it needs it. 00:17:44.000 --> 00:17:45.440 It was built in 1989. 00:17:45.440 --> 00:17:47.760 So like I said, it's a little bit of an older home, but 00:17:48.040 --> 00:17:50.440 It's not it's not a house that doesn't have any insulation. 00:17:50.440 --> 00:17:58.120 Like there are homes, I guess, 1971 and older, where like there's just no insulation in your exterior walls. 00:17:58.320 --> 00:18:02.880 So I can't even imagine how those people cope if they haven't like modernized their homes. 00:18:02.880 --> 00:18:03.280 Yeah. 00:18:03.280 --> 00:18:04.000 Yeah. 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:05.840 So space here, I'd imagine. 00:18:05.840 --> 00:18:06.320 Yeah. 00:18:06.320 --> 00:18:06.960 Uh yeah. 00:18:06.960 --> 00:18:09.040 Just wood fireplaces. 00:18:09.240 --> 00:18:09.960 Keep it cheap. 00:18:09.960 --> 00:18:13.560 You know, I the one thing I am thankful for is that we have natural gas heat. 00:18:13.560 --> 00:18:16.600 I can't imagine trying to heat your house with electricity right now. 00:18:16.600 --> 00:18:17.080 Yeah. 00:18:17.340 --> 00:18:18.700 Um bio. 00:18:19.020 --> 00:18:19.660 Our furnace. 00:18:19.660 --> 00:18:20.140 Yeah. 00:18:20.140 --> 00:18:25.740 Our furnace is yeah, natural gas, but our water heater is electric, which I just had to replace. 00:18:25.740 --> 00:18:26.539 But yeah. 00:18:26.700 --> 00:18:29.100 That's same, same situation here, right? 00:18:29.100 --> 00:18:29.500 Yeah. 00:18:30.060 --> 00:18:34.700 I will say that my energy supplier IGS has been absolutely raking me over the coals. 00:18:35.580 --> 00:18:38.540 79 cents per CCF, buddy, and only going up. 00:18:39.380 --> 00:18:40.100 It's rough out there. 00:18:40.100 --> 00:18:40.740 Affordability. 00:18:40.740 --> 00:18:41.700 Who would have thought? 00:18:41.700 --> 00:18:42.260 Demand. 00:18:42.260 --> 00:18:43.380 Demand is high. 00:18:43.380 --> 00:18:44.100 Yeah. 00:18:44.100 --> 00:18:47.540 I mean, good good company to be working for right now. 00:18:47.940 --> 00:18:48.740 Oh, yeah. 00:18:49.140 --> 00:18:49.620