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What one home inspection actually leaves you
Enter your fee, your real monthly volume and the hours a job honestly costs, and see the profit and hourly rate behind the number on your invoice.
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Will tonight reports actually go out tonight
Set your start time, your job count and your honest per report writing time, and see the hour your day really ends against the cutoff you promised.
Same evening delivery is a promise made in the morning and broken at seven at night. The arithmetic is simple enough to do on the drive to the first job, and doing it there is the difference between calling an agent at four to reset expectations and apologizing at ten. Two inspections plus drive time plus two reports rarely fits inside the day inspectors assume it does.
This planner lays the day out in clock hours. Enter when you start the first inspection, what a job costs you in site time and driving, how long a report honestly takes to write, and the hour you promised the reports would land. It returns your true finish time, the slack you have left, and the writing minutes each report gets if you hold the promise.
Your result
Hours in the field
7.2
Total time on site and behind the wheel before any writing starts.
Clock hour you actually finish
18.4
On a 24 hour clock, so 18.4 means roughly twenty four minutes past six.
Slack against your cutoff
1.6
Hours to spare if the day runs clean, and a negative figure means you miss.
Writing minutes each report can have
144
The writing budget per report if you are going to hold the promise you made.
This assumes no break and no traffic, so treat any slack under one hour as a day that will run late.
Where a two job day quietly breaks
Two inspections in a day looks reasonable at eight in the morning. It is the second drive that ruins it, especially when the afternoon property is across town and the buyer arrives late for the walkthrough. Add a crawlspace with standing water and a service panel that needs three extra photographs and the second job runs forty minutes long before you have written a word.
The planner shows this as a shrinking writing budget. When the minutes per report drop below what a report of that size honestly needs, you have three choices and all of them are better made at noon than at nine: send one report tonight and one first thing, tell the second client a specific delivery time, or stop taking the second afternoon job on days you inspect older stock.
Making the promise smaller and keeping it
A promise you keep beats a promise that sounds better. Agents forward reports from inspectors who are predictable, not from inspectors who are occasionally fast. If the numbers say two full inspections and two reports do not fit before eight, then promise the second report by nine the next morning and hit it every single time.
The other route is to move report time out of the evening entirely. Annotating photos on site, dictating the summary in the truck before you drive off, and keeping a comment library that matches how you actually speak all pull minutes out of the desk pass. That is the work SlabToRoof does, and the planner is the honest way to check whether it would change your day.
Questions about this calculator
What report writing time should I enter?
Time yourself on three real reports and use the slowest one, not the average. The slow report is the one that breaks the schedule, and planning around your best day is how the promise gets broken. Most inspectors doing thorough work on older housing land between ninety minutes and two and a half hours.
How do I plan a day with a radon retrieval on it?
Treat the retrieval as extra drive time by raising the drive and setup hours per inspection. A placement and a retrieval on separate days are two trips, and the second one is easy to forget when the calendar only shows an inspection. Adding twenty to thirty minutes usually reflects it fairly.
The result says I finish after my cutoff. What now?
Change the promise or change the day, but change one of them before lunch. Calling an agent at two in the afternoon to say the report lands at nine tonight costs you nothing. Missing an unspoken deadline at ten costs you a referral source you spent two years building.
More free tools and working documents
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.
Carry that figure into Thursday inspection
A result on this page is only a number until it changes what you do on the next job. Book a demo and bring the inspection behind it, whether that was the fee, the round trip mileage or the report hours you just typed in. We will run the same job through photo annotation, wording check and branded delivery so you can judge the difference against the figure on your screen.