{"id":"3028196f-8bcb-45b2-8b66-b6eeb6d71f5e","task":"Use infrared thermography to check whether wall/ceiling/roof cavity insulation was installed correctly","domain":"astm.org","steps":["Use ASTM C1060, Standard Practice for Thermographic Inspection of Insulation Installations in Envelope Cavities of Frame Buildings, for qualitative thermal inspection of wood- or metal-framed walls, ceilings, roofs, and floors with cavity insulation","Confirm the practice's scope is limited to frame construction with insulation between framing members — it detects missing, partial-thickness, misaligned, or damaged insulation, and confirms apparently adequate coverage","Note the practice explicitly excludes validation techniques (e.g., visual inspection or in-situ R-value measurement) from its scope — thermography flags anomalies but does not itself confirm R-value","Schedule the inspection under conditions that produce sufficient temperature differential across the assembly for thermal contrast to be visible","Follow up any anomalies identified by thermography with a physical/visual inspection or destructive probe before concluding remediation is or isn't needed"],"gotchas":["C1060 is explicitly limited to frame construction — using it as the sole basis for insulation QA on mass-wall, ICF, or non-framed assemblies is outside its stated scope","Thermography under C1060 is qualitative, not quantitative — it cannot by itself certify a compliant R-value or air-leakage rate; pair with E1186 (air leakage siting) or direct testing where a quantitative result is required"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-14T03:26:36.806Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"sampled","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/3028196f-8bcb-45b2-8b66-b6eeb6d71f5e"}