Deck construction

ScribeWare co-founder Dylan Chalk started sharing his knowledge to the home inspection community through a blog, podcast, and continuing education classes long before he and his buddy Steve Lamb started to build the best inspection software that could be built. And he doesn’t plan on stopping anytime soon. The reality is that sharing professional best practices with the home inspection community at large is central to the whole point of ScribeWare: build the best inspection report software, and build it with templates, pre-written comments, and prompts so that it actually helps inspectors be better at their job.

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“I’ve Had 20 People on This Deck!”

It has not failed to date… Every home inspector has heard some version of this refrain at least once a week for their whole career. In this one, the claim in question was deck construction. The insistence that the deck was perfectly fine – because it had not collapsed to date – came at me from a stubborn seller who was advised by his attorney, in a for sale by owner situation, that he should shadow the home inspector and the buyer...