When Dave Banghart arrived at a five-story-tall apartment complex last summer to help a maintenance worker find what he called an “elusive” leak, the owner of Banghart Plumbing wasn’t worried. The reason for his confidence? A FLIR Systems C2 Lowepro thermal-imaging camera.
“He took me into an underground parking garage and showed us a sewage leak in the ceiling,” Banghart recalls. “I looked around with the camera and could tell we were below a tenant’s bathroom.” So Banghart asked the maintenance worker to let him into the first-floor apartment above the leak, where another look with the camera revealed a floor-to-ceiling
