Home Inspector Education, Home Inspection Methodology, Home Inspection Standards & Ethics

This document describes & gives sources for home inspection education classes, course offerings, and online home inspector education articles and provides links to online technical articles on home inspection methodology, including advanced home inspection methods and inspection for special topics such as environmental hazards, above ground or buried oil tanks, sink holes, and methodologies for the inspection of any complex system.

Home Inspection Education & Methods

The advanced home inspection methods presented stress methods for increasing the detection of significant or safety defects at properties, technical expertise, and ethical conduct. Advice is provided for people interested in becoming a home inspector as well as for home buyers or owners who need to hire a home inspector. Also see our list of home inspection topics at the ARTICLE INDEX the bottom of this article . The following is a list of home inspection courses, classes, conferences, and schools.

• ADVANCED HOME INSPECTION METHODS & skills how to spot hard-to-see but very important defects and hazards in buildings or any other complex system being examined
• ADVICE on BECOMING a HOME INSPECTOR- opinions and tips from experienced home inspection professionals
• AFCIs ARC FAULT CIRCUIT INTERRUPTERS 2008 National Electrical Code Update on AFCIs and GFCIs in homes
• ASHI@HOME home inspection training program - an ASHI version of the Carson Dunlop Home Study Course. Contact the company at 800-268-7070.
• Carson Dunlop's Home Study Course for Home Inspectors can be examined online at that company's website.
  Carson Dunlop also offers the ASHI@HOME home inspection training program - an ASHI version of the Carson Dunlop Home Study Course. Contact the company at 800-268-7070.
  


• The ASHI School - 888-884-0440 Learn By Doing, developed by Carson & Dunlop Associates Ltd.
  


• BECOME A HOME INSPECTOR, HOW TO How to enter the home inspection profession (or business)
• BUILDING DEFECTS LISTS - curriculum recommendations for home inspector education , includes recommended knowledge base, inspection skills, and typical defects for each major area of residential and light commercial building inspections. Focus is on the identification and reporting of building and building mechanical system defects and hazards, rather than (the more narrow and new-construction-focused building code compliance).
• Certification for Home Inspectors Professional associations, licensing
• 
  Commercial Building Inspection Course - Carson Dunlop


• Environmental Inspection & Testing - home page for information on mold and indoor environment problems
• Ethics for Home Inspectors a code of ethics and ethical guidelines for home inspectors
• Home Inspection Classes: Foundation Cracks, Leans, Bulges how to diagnose foundation damage
• Home Inspection Courses: Insulation & Ventilation online guide to inspection of building insulation and ventilation
• Home Inspection Methods: Fuel Gas Piping how to inspect and report defects in LP or natural gas piping
• Home Inspection Course on Radiant Heat: Radiant Heating Mistakes to Avoid
• How to Get the Most From a Home Inspection Advice for home buyers when ordering and attending a home inspection
• HOW MUCH SHOULD YOU PAY for PROFESSIONAL SERVICES? - advice on home inspection fees: paying too little can be a worse mistake than paying too much for a home inspection. Ruskin quote on fees.
• HOME INSPECTOR EDUCATION lists home inspection training, courses, home study programs, texts, and references for home inspectors and other building inspectors and building diagnosticians as well as for building, structural, and indoor envionment forensic investigators
• HOME INSPECTION FRANCHISES as a leg up for starting work or as an education source
• Home Inspections Include what should a professional home inspection include
• Home Inspection Report Suggestions what makes a useful versus a "no content" home inspection report?
• Home Inspection Report Writing - how to write a home inspection report, advice from experts at Carson Dunlop Associates
• Web-Based Inspection Reporting: Horizon: Web-Based Home Inspection & Commercial Inspection Writing & Business Management Software from Carson Dunlop
• Horizon Laptop Web-Based Reporting System - demonstration video from Carson Dunlop. Work in the field with no internet connection. 800-268-7070. (Carson Dunlop assists with technical review and content at this website, InspectAPedia.com)

• Home Inspection Methods: Complex Systems Inspections advanced home inspection methodology can improve chances of spotting important defects
• Home Inspection Methods: Mobile Homes how to inspect mobile homes, trailers, and doublewides
• Home Inspection Methods: Oil Tanks what are the hazards of above ground or buried oil tanks and what should home inspectors see, do, and report
• Home Inspection Methods: Sears Kit Houses how to identify Sears Catalog Homes & what home inspection considerations are special for those buildings
• Home Inspection Methods: Sink Holes an example of a "hidden" defect that may be spotted
• Home Inspection Methods: the Nature of Vision how to find and report difficult-to-spot important defects in any complex system or home
• Standards for Home Inspections home inspection standards of practice
• Terminology for Home Inspections home inspection definitions and terms are explained
• VISUAL PERCEPTION ERRORS - why building inspectors make mistakes of failing to notice important clues or defects, how to reduce their occurrence

Advanced Home & Building Inspection Methods Courses & Papers

• Can X-Ray Vision Warn of Sink Holes? in Florida or elsewhere
• Developing your X-Ray Vision - 6th Ed. The Science of Building Inspections - advanced home inspection techniques including "The Limits of Vision," "Inattentional Blindness," "Invasive Inspection Methods," "Missed Defects," & "Contextual Inspection," "Termite Inspections," "Moisture & Building Water Entry," © Daniel Friedman 2006-1987
• Developing your X-Ray Vision - 5th Ed.- ppt slides Presentation slides © 2005 Daniel Friedman
• The Nature of Vision, Inspecting Complex Systems,why inspectors don't see certain defects and miss important omissions
• Home Inspection Report Language Library: Gas Fuel Piping or Tank Faults Basic advice - home inspection report language suggestions
• Home Inspection Report Language Library: Buried Oil Tanks, Basic home buyer advice - home inspection report language suggestions
• Home Inspection Report Language Library: Defects in Oil Tank Installations, Tanks, and Heating Oil Piping
• Home Inspection Report Language Library: Oil Tanks text file list © Oil and Other Storage Tank Leaks, Testing, Abandonment, Inspection - UST home inspection report language files - Reference List
• How to identify a Sears Catalog Kit house
• See also Website Contents for topical research papers, On defect recognition, reporting, repair on individual Building topics or components
• See also Daniel Friedman's CV-list of technical papers and presentations - © cc's available.

• AGE of a BUILDING, HOW to DETERMINE - how to determine the age of buildings, building materials, building mechanical systems: how old is the air conditioner, boiler, furnace, water heater, roof, siding, other building products
• Sears Houses: How to identify Sears catalog kit houses photos and tips for identifying these interesting homes.
• HISTORIC HOMES - inspection, common defects, troubleshooting, repair

• What a Home Inspection Includes - list of house parts and components - also see ASHI Standards of Practice
• How to Get the Most Benefit from a Home Inspection - who attends, who gets the report, ethical issues and tricks, respecting the seller, digesting the volume of information
• Home Inspection Terms & Definitions
• How to Enter the Home Inspection Profession - how to qualify, obtain experience, develop competence, & reduce risk for the inspector and the client
• ASHI Certification Links
• Home Inspection Reports - a Critique narrative vs. checklist type home inspection reports
• ASHI Standards of Practice - Jan 2000 and ASHI Standards History - links to older and alternative versions of Home Inspection Standards
• ASHI Code of Ethics 1993, and ASHI Ethics History - links to older versions; Note: newer may be found at ASHI
• ASHI in 1996 ASHI History - association description from 1996
• American Society of Home Inspectors (ASHI) Official Website
• HOME & BUILDING INSPECTION

Home Inspection Articles for Consumers & Home Inspectors

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