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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 page left. The following is a list of home inspection courses, classes, conferences, and schools.

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
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,
in partnership with Casey O'Malley Associates - Michael Casey and Kevin O'Malley -www.CaseyOmalleyAssociates.com , 866-363-1330 - Direct 703-969-7070
Get Certified Conference 2011 http://www.inspectionconference.com
Become a Home Inspector? How to enter the home inspection profession (or business)
BUILDING DEFECTS LISTS - curriculum recommendations for home inspector eduction, 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
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 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
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)

- "The Home Reference Book - the Encyclopedia of Homes", Carson Dunlop & Associates, Toronto, Ontario, 2010, $69.00 U.S., is available from Carson Dunlop, and from the InspectAPedia bookstore. The 2010 edition of the Home Reference Book is a bound volume of more than 450 illustrated pages that assist home inspectors and home owners in the inspection and detection of problems on buildings. The text is intended as a reference guide to help building owners operate and maintain their home effectively. InspectAPedia.com ^® author/editor Daniel Friedman is a contributing author. Field inspection worksheets are included at the back of the volume.
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.

Historic Homes, Home Improvement Costs, Home Research

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 buildings Links to other articles: Sears Houses, How old is a House, Old House Materials & Repairs

Home Inspection Standards, Ethics, American Society of Home Inspectors-ASHI Certification

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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Carson, Dunlop & Associates Ltd., 120 Carlton Street Suite 407, Toronto ON M5A 4K2. (416) 964-9415 1-800-268-7070 info@carsondunlop.com. Thanks to Alan Carson and Bob Dunlop, for permission to use illustrations from their publication, The Illustrated Home which illustrates construction details and building components. Carson Dunlop provides home inspection education including the ASHI-adopted Home Inspection Training Program (home study course), publications such as the Home Reference Book, report writing materials including the Horizon report writer, and home inspection services. Alan Carson is a past president of ASHI, the American Society of Home Inspectors.
Building inspection education & report writing systems from Carson, Dunlop & Associates Ltd
Carson Dunlop's Home Study Course for Home Inspectors can be examined online at that company's website. More about home inspector education and other educational materials is organized at InspectAPedia.com at HOME INSPECTOR EDUCATION.
Carson Dunlop also offers information about the ASHI@HOME home inspection training program - an ASHI version of the Carson Dunlop Home Study Course. Contact the company at 800-268-7070.

Books & Articles on Building & Environmental Inspection, Testing, Diagnosis, & Repair

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The Home Reference Book - the Encyclopedia of Homes, Carson Dunlop & Associates, Toronto, Ontario, 2010, $69.00 U.S., is available from Carson Dunlop. The Home Reference Book is a bound volume of more than 450 illustrated pages that assist home inspectors and home owners in the inspection and detection of problems on buildings. The text is intended as a reference guide to help building owners operate and maintain their home effectively. InspectAPedia.com ^® author/editor Daniel Friedman is a contributing author. Field inspection worksheets are included at the back of the volume.

Home Inspection Reports - a Critique narrative vs. checklist type home inspection reports
American Society of Home Inspectors (ASHI) Official Website
Basement Moisture Control, U.S. Department of Energy
Building Pathology, Deterioration, Diagnostics, and Intervention, Samuel Y. Harris, P.E., AIA, Esq., ISBN 0-471-33172-4, John Wiley & Sons, 2001 [General building science-DF] ISBN-10: 0471331724 ISBN-13: 978-0471331728
Building Pathology: Principles and Practice, David Watt, Wiley-Blackwell; 2 edition (March 7, 2008) ISBN-10: 1405161035 ISBN-13: 978-1405161039
Building inspection education & report writing systems from Carson, Dunlop & Associates Ltd
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