How to Review a Property Inspection Without Losing the Original Record

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What happens when an inspection has been submitted, but someone needs to check it before the report is issued? It might be the same person who carried out the inspection. It might be somebody else carrying out a quality check. Either way, there is an important distinction between reviewing an inspection and changing the original record. A good review process …

How to Make Sure Your Property Inspection Software Works Offline

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If you’re choosing property inspection software, ask a simple question: What happens when I lose my connection? It is easy to overlook when you’re testing software in an office with a good internet connection. It matters rather more when you’re standing in a property and your phone suddenly has no signal. Why offline working matters Mobile coverage in the UK …

How to Reuse Previous Property Inspection Information

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A repeat property inspection doesn’t always need to start with a blank survey. If the same property has been inspected before, the previous inspection may contain information that is useful to the person carrying out the next one. Some inspections are carried out once for a particular purpose. Others are designed to be repeated, where knowing what happened last time …

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How to Build a Property Inspection Template

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A property inspection template gives you a repeatable way of carrying out an inspection. It defines the sections, questions, responses and evidence you want to capture. It can guide the surveyor through the property, help keep inspections consistent and provide the information that eventually becomes the report. The important thing is that you aren’t locked into somebody else’s idea of …

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How Many Checklist Questions?

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Its a great question, just how many checklist questions can you put on one Brightchecker inspection template? Is there a Maximum? Well, I don’t know about a maximum but I recently found out that one of our subscribers had put 1,500 questions on a single survey template! Wow, that’s a lot of questions! Perhaps even more impressive was that they …