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Home Inspector Education, Home Inspection Methodology, Home Inspection Standards & Ethics InspectAPedia® How to Be a First Rate Home Inspector

This document discusses 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.

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. © Copyright 2009 Daniel Friedman, All Rights Reserved. Information Accuracy & Bias Pledge is at below-left. Use links at the left of each page to navigate this document or to view other topics at this website. Green links show where you are in our document or website.

Home Inspection Education & Methods

• Advanced Home Inspection Methods how to spot hard-to-see but very important defects and hazards in buildings or any other complex system being examined
• Become a Home Inspector? How to enter the home inspection profession (or business)
• Certification for Home Inspectors Professional associations, licensing
• Environmental Inspection & Testing
• 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
• 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 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
• 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)

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.

• Sears Houses: How to identify Sears catalog kit houses photos and tips for identifying these interesting homes.
• Historic Buildings Links to other articles: Sears Houses, How old is a House, Old House Materials & Repairs

• 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

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• 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
• Links to our list of additional resources and references on home inspection

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