Home Inspection Checklist – Exterior
If you’re a home buyer or real estate agent and you’d like to conduct your own cursory home inspection. When SDI inspects the home exterior, we work from a list of critical items
This covers many of the most likely and potentially expensive problems.
- Roof Problems
- Curled Shingles
- Severely Deteriorated Shingles
- Cracks in shingles
- Hack patch job
- Loose shingle
- Mis-matched shingles
- Slipping Shingles
- Sliding Shingles
- Damaged shingles
- Chimney Problems
- Missing bricks at chimney
- Cracked chimney
- Neapolitan chimney
- Siding
- Cracked hardboard siding
- Hardboard siding rotted and patched
- Rotted hardboard siding
- Severely rotted hardboard siding
- Defects with newer stucco siding
- Stains below windows
- Windows
- Rotted Windows
- Rotted Aluminum Clad Windows
- Rotted Aluminum Window
- Water Management
- Proper gutters, downspouts, and downspout extensions.
- Ground sloping away from house
- Roof Lines
- Water concentrated against house
- Decks
- Rotted deck joists
- Sagging Deck
- Guardrails
