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Home inspector either missed thermal tracking areas on perimeter of ceiling at exterior walls or is thermal tracking not considered a defect?
House we bought has thermal tracking on the ceilings, quite a but actually. Ceilings are the usual crows foot or slap brush texture. When I touch where the shadowing is, it's cooler than the surrounding area. These are not rafters ghosting, they're spread out "blotches" or streaking. Previous owners burned scented candles and may have used the ventless gas fire place liberally, creating a source of soot particulates. Natural gas furnace is a vintage 2004 Tappan brand but passed tests for CO leakage, none noted. Very notable, the underside of the registers on the HVAC supply for each room have a lint build-up that is black instead of the usual gray or brown, and rolling a piece of this lint between your fingers leaves soot smudging on your finger. Or at least something resembling fine soot.
HVAC air filter is two inch depth media filter type 20 x 24 x 2 I think MERV 10 rated. Previous owner appears to have kept up with filter changes, they left a stack of brand new ones about 12 of them in garage they bought them in bulk. So the stuff on underside of the registers is curious but likely that soot particulate may be small enough to pass through the filters or bypass the filter if the filter housing is sloppy.
House we bought has thermal tracking on the ceilings, quite a but actually. Ceilings are the usual crows foot or slap brush texture. When I touch where the shadowing is, it's cooler than the surrounding area. These are not rafters ghosting, they're spread out "blotches" or streaking. Previous owners burned scented candles and may have used the ventless gas fire place liberally, creating a source of soot particulates. Natural gas furnace is a vintage 2004 Tappan brand but passed tests for CO leakage, none noted. Very notable, the underside of the registers on the HVAC supply for each room have a lint build-up that is black instead of the usual gray or brown, and rolling a piece of this lint between your fingers leaves soot smudging on your finger. Or at least something resembling fine soot.
HVAC air filter is two inch depth media filter type 20 x 24 x 2 I think MERV 10 rated. Previous owner appears to have kept up with filter changes, they left a stack of brand new ones about 12 of them in garage they bought them in bulk. So the stuff on underside of the registers is curious but likely that soot particulate may be small enough to pass through the filters or bypass the filter if the filter housing is sloppy.