Free Plumbing Inspection Report Template

A home inspection standard of practice — InterNACHI or ASHI — excludes measuring pressure, flow and temperature, operating any valve, testing shower pans, and inspecting wells, septic systems and water treatment. A licensed plumber doing a service call or condition assessment is not bound by those exclusions. Choosing the home inspection scope does not remove those fields; it marks anything you record in them as beyond the standard, and quotes the exclusion on the report.

Because it is the one condition vocabulary with a legal definition behind it. Texas mandates it by rule for every inspection in the state, and defines Deficient as a condition that adversely and materially affects the performance of a system or component, or constitutes a hazard to life, limb or property. The Satisfactory / Marginal / Defective scales common in inspection software are a product convention — neither InterNACHI nor ASHI defines them, and both use only a binary "report as in need of correction". We would rather ship the vocabulary that means something.

It is not. The IPC sets a maximum — 604.8 requires a pressure reducing valve where static pressure exceeds 80 psi — but it sets no minimum static pressure at all. What it does set is minimum flow pressure at individual fixture outlets under peak demand, in Table 604.3, which ranges from 8 psi at a lavatory to 45 psi at a blowout water closet. That is a different measurement. So this report flags a low reading, because it is worth knowing, but says explicitly that it is not a code deficiency.

No, and this is one of the most repeated errors in the trade. The IPC contains no maximum storage temperature for a water heater. 120°F appears in the code as a limit that shower and bathtub valves must be capable of being set to, under 412.3 and 412.5 via ASSE 1016 and ASSE 1070. It is separately a CPSC consumer recommendation. Those are three different things, and only the fixture valve limit is a code requirement. This report checks the delivered temperature against that limit and cites it correctly.

They are omitted from the report entirely. An untouched checklist item is not a finding, and a report padded with fifty blank rows buries the four things that actually matter. Only what you recorded is printed.

Yes, in any section. The checklist covers what the standards of practice name and what the code most commonly turns on, but no fixed list survives contact with a real building. Your own items carry the same condition options and print alongside the standard ones.

They appear as items, marked as outside a home inspection standard of practice, because that is what they are — both InterNACHI and ASHI exclude wells, septic and water treatment, and sewer laterals fall outside by way of the general underground exclusion. If you offer them as ancillary services, record them here and the report will note the scope. It does not attempt to grade a sewer camera run; that is NASSCO PACP territory and requires a certified operator.

No. It is a condition assessment on the date shown, and every export says so. Code citations appear to explain why something was called deficient, not to certify the installation. Approval of an installation rests with the authority having jurisdiction.