When does measuring first help?
You do not need a visible problem to measure a home. Most people get in touch at one of three moments: after heavy rain or a leak they are not sure about, just before a repair or renovation decision, or when the same concern keeps coming back.
Moisture questions
After heavy rain or a leak you are not sure about
No stain yet, but something does not feel right. Readings taken in a set pattern across walls, floors and ceilings can show where readings sit higher than a dry control on the same material, before anything shows on the surface.
Start with: Whole-Home Moisture Mapping. From $1,400 inc GST, $100 holds your date.
Condensation, mustiness or damp in more than one room
When the same signs show up in several rooms, a connected whole-home view is more useful than treating each spot on its own.
Read more: Damp or musty house · Condensation on windows · Indoor humidity and ventilation
Start with: Whole-Home Moisture Mapping. Want humidity, temperature and CO2 recorded too? Choose the Home Performance Baseline.
One bathroom or wet area
If the question really sits in one wet area, a targeted assessment keeps the scope and cost in proportion.
Start with: Targeted Bathroom Moisture Assessment
The space above or below
Where the question sits in an accessible roof space or subfloor, we record that space directly.
Start with: Roof Space Assessment or Subfloor Assessment
Before or after a big decision
Before repair, renovation or upgrade
Create a record before the first quote or design assumption becomes the plan.
Start with: Home Performance Baseline
Buying a home
Add an indoor measured record to the information you use in the purchase. Conveyancing, engineering and timber-pest work remain separate professional services.
Start with: Pre-purchase Home Performance Measurement. From $1,250 inc GST.
New home or renovation handover
Record a measured starting point at completion, then come back to the same points after the first season or when a question comes up.
Start with: Whole-Home Moisture Mapping, or the Home Performance Baseline for the full record.
Looking after the home you have
Record the home while it seems to be performing normally, so your first data point does not arrive in the middle of a problem.
Start with: Whole-Home Moisture Mapping, with a seasonal retest later in the year.
Selling with measured information
Keep a record you may choose to share alongside the usual sale material. It does not certify, rate or prove the property is superior.
Start with: Home Performance Baseline
One room
If the question is contained to one room, a targeted scan makes sense.
Start with: Targeted Environmental Room Scan
After defined work
Return to agreed points and record before-and-after evidence under the conditions stated.
Start with: Targeted Performance Testing and Verification
Not sure?
The free 15-minute call is there to point you to the right starting point. It is not a diagnosis and it does not commit you to an assessment.