Field craft, licensing rules, and the economics of running a one or two inspector home inspection business in the United States.
Written by Jimenez Julien from ride alongs, state statutes and delivery logs. Every article is dated .
practical guide
Radon is the simplest add-on to a two hour inspection, but the money is in the protocol. Here is how the closed house window, device placement, and state rules decide whether your result holds up.
comparison
Every roof gets inspected somehow. This is what walking, flying, laddering to the eave, and glassing from the ground each let you see, what the standards allow, and what the FAA requires of you.
mistakes to avoid
Most errors and omissions claims start with a sentence, not a missed defect. These are the phrasings that promise more than you inspected, and the plain language that says the same thing safely.
regulation and compliance
Wind mitigation and 4-point work pays on volume, and both live or die on the form. Here is who may sign, what each question documents, and the photographs a carrier will reject the file without.
case study
Solid aluminum branch circuits went into millions of houses for about eight years, and they still show up in panels every week. Here is the failure mechanism, the tells, and the two accepted repairs.
trends and outlook
Verbal walkthroughs, waived contingencies and insurance driven inspections are all pulling at the same calendar. Here is what is actually changing in US inspection demand and how a small shop responds.
checklist
The attic is where the roof, the insulation, the exhaust ducts and the framing all confess at once. Work it in this order and you leave with the photographs the report actually needs.
numbers and benchmarks
Your fee is not your revenue. Build the model once: fixed cost per inspection at your real volume, the unbilled hours, the mileage, and the square footage adders that match time on site.
field report
A post-tension slab in expansive clay asks different questions than a footing and stem wall. Here is the sequence one inspector runs, the photographs taken, and the line where the engineer starts.
Radon protocol, wind mitigation photographs, attic ventilation ratios: every one of them ends as a numbered line item with an annotated photo attached. SlabToRoof assembles that document while you walk the house and delivers it branded, the same evening.