Working document
The same day inspection report checklist
A field tested sequence that takes a full inspection from the signed agreement to a delivered report before the buyer goes to bed.
Free resources
Resources for a one or two inspector home inspection business
The free calculators, checklists and comparisons we keep for inspectors who price their own work and write their own reports.
Everything here is built for the same reader: a licensed inspector who takes the calls, drives the truck, walks the roof, writes the report and sends the invoice. Not a firm with a marketing department, and not a franchise with a corporate template. The advice is specific because a one person inspection business fails in specific ways, usually somewhere between the last crawlspace of the day and a report that never went out.
Use the calculators to check your own numbers, the checklist to tighten the sequence from photo to delivered report, and the comparison pages to decide honestly whether SlabToRoof or another product suits how you work. Nothing here requires an account, and the calculators run in your browser without sending your figures anywhere.
Free tools
Free calculators for a one or two inspector shop
Two working calculators for inspectors who price their own jobs and write their own reports, with realistic defaults you can override.
Comparisons
SlabToRoof compared with the software inspectors shortlist
Pick your reporting software by the shape of your inspection week, not by the length of a feature list.
Main guide
Report Wordings That Turn a Home Inspection Into a Claim
It settles which sentences in an inspection report create liability and which plain wording says the same thing safely.
Magazine
The Defect Log
Field craft, licensing rules, and the economics of running a one or two inspector home inspection business in the United States.
About
Who writes all of this
The author page covers who writes The Defect Log and why report wording, photo discipline and the economics of a one or two inspector shop are the only subjects this site pays attention to.
The checklist and the calculators stand alone
Work the same day sequence and run your own numbers without ever speaking to us, because that is what this material is for. When you want to see the reporting tool underneath it, ask for a demo and bring your own crawlspace and attic photos, your own comment library and the delivery list from a recent agreement. Nothing here stops working if you decide against the software.