Never Shy, Jowers Sounds Off About Reports

[homnspector]

"First go to the BTR website and download the evaluation form and double check your own report. I don't know if you are aware but the form was revised about 6 months ago. We raised the bar."

No, i wasn't aware. So you change the standards and don't tell the home inspectors?

[swarga]

No, the standards did not change.

We spoke to the BTR staff and found out several people were interpreting the standers in different ways. For example, would describe a plumbing pipe as metal, probably not you would say it is copper or some other metal.

But inspectors thought plastic was a acceptable description of the plumbing line. It is not, PVC, PEX, CPVC, etc would be acceptable.

What changed was the acceptable interpretation of the standards. Look at the report evaluation form and you will see what I mean.

And for the record, we has an AZ-ASHI central District meeting in January to discuss all of those changes. We sent letters and e-mails to all AZ inspectors in the AZ-ASHI database. Therefore, ASHI members were better informed than all other AZ inspectors again.[]