Most single-family homes take 2–4 hours on site. The spread comes from size, age, condition — and whether the report gets written on site or at midnight.
A condo or small townhouse often wraps in about two hours. A typical single-family home lands in the 2–4 hour band. Large, old, or deficiency-heavy properties run longer, and add-ons extend the day: a 4-point or wind mitigation pass, rental condition documentation, or a long equipment age log each add their own time.
Size and systems. More square footage, more rooms, outbuildings, pools and spas all add stops. Age and condition. Older homes and distressed properties generate more findings, and each finding needs photos and notes. Access. Locked attics, blocked panels and missing keys burn more time than any defect. Report workflow. This is the big one: inspectors who document findings per space as they go — narrative assisted by a comment library, photos attached to the finding, markup in place — leave with the report nearly done. Inspectors who take notes and “write it up tonight” add a second unpaid shift.
InspectDeck is built for the first style: pre-structured templates so no skeleton gets rebuilt, ~1,190 starter comments with location and component placeholders, a photo pipeline that stays fast at hundreds of images, and three PDF styles exported on site over an offline-first app. Details: finish the report on site.
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