Home Inspection Equipment & Tools Checklist

Whether you’re just getting your business off the ground or making plans to expand your inspection services, we want to make shopping that much easier. We’ve compiled popular personal protective equipment (PPE), splurge-worthy technology, and tools for home inspectors from multiple sources across the industry into one article.
Grab a pen and buckle up for this comprehensive list of inspection tools and equipment.

Safety First

From ensuring safety to guaranteeing accuracy and having the best, safest, and correct tools is paramount in conducting thorough and reliable home inspections.

Show Your Thoroughness

Being thorough may be the most important attribute of a good inspector. Thoroughness demonstrates your dedication to providing a complete inspection of the property and develops client confidence in your expertise and the accuracy of your findings.

More Exciting News

I want to talk to you about InspectPAC and report about InspectionWorld on the Road—ASHI’s effort to bring InspectionWorld closer to home. I would also like to report that the first of four InspectionWorld on the Road events was successful.

Handling Complaints

A few months later I received a complaint email. The email was short and direct. I suspect I get one such complaint every year (I have been doing this for almost nine years now), and only once has someone threatened to take me to court (after she talked to her lawyer and reread my pre-inspection agreement she dropped that line of thinking).

Carrying the Torch

Sean Troxell’s positive energy is infectious. You can almost see him answering the phone with a smile. Troxell recently won ASHI’s Ironman Award—an annual accolade given to an ASHI Member who has given time, energy, talent, and determination to ASHI over a long period and with little recognition.

Understanding Condensate

Over my 21-year career of inspecting homes, condensate is one of the most frequently reported items in my inspection reports. I find it’s done wrong more than 75% of the time in one fashion or another. I am convinced it’s because people don’t consider condensate to be something that can lead to a larger issue—and that could not be farther from the truth.

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