How long should a checklist be?

As long as the route: 50–60 checks for a house handover, 13 for a monthly fire walk. Longer than that and people stop reading the lines.

Yes. The template editor in the app, or start from any template on this site and edit a copy.

What should be on a site inspection checklist?

Q: What should be on a site inspection checklist?

Seven groups, walked in the same order every time: structure and substrate, the envelope (roof, walls, windows, drainage), MEP, internal finishes, doors, windows and ironmongery, safety and compliance, and external works. The route is the point: an inspector who walks the same way every time forgets nothing, and a checklist that follows the route is what makes two inspections comparable.

Seven groups, walked in the same order every time: structure and substrate, the envelope (roof, walls, windows, drainage), MEP, internal finishes, doors, windows and ironmongery, safety and compliance, and external works. The route is the point: an inspector who walks the same way every time forgets nothing, and a checklist that follows the route is what makes two inspections comparable.

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The template picker: four built-in walks and the inspector's own

Step by step

Decide the route before you arrive, outside first, then top floor down, or the reverse, but always the same.
One check per line, phrased so Pass or Fail is obvious.
Give each check a trade, so a Fail lands with the right contractor.
Photograph passes in wet rooms and at fire elements as well as fails.
Print the appendix with the report: every check, every result.

What should be on a site inspection checklist?

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