Standards of Practice

  • Inspect
    • Driveways, parking areas, and walks
    • Siding, trim, and flashings
    • Eaves, soffits, and fascias where accessible from ground level
    • Chimneys
    • Exterior doors
    • Vehicle doors and their installed openers
    • Attached or adjacent steps, stoops, porches, decks, balconies, patios, ramps, and their associated railing systems
    • Fences, except for extensive pasture fencing or electric livestock barriers
    • Retaining walls
  • Describe
    • Dominant materials used in construction of aforementioned components
  • Not required
    • Screening, shutters, awnings, and similar seasonal accessories
    • Any portion of a chimney or flue that is not readily or safely accessible
    • Geological and soil conditions
    • Seawalls, break-walls, boat houses or lifts, and docks
    • Erosion control and earth stabilization measures
    • Recreational facilities (swimming pools, spas, saunas, steam baths, exercise, entertainment, athletic, playground or other similar equipment)