Colorado Home Inspection Checklist
The five things to check in any report, plus nine checks that only exist because the house is in Colorado.
This is the Colorado add-on to our national inspection checklist, nine extra checks for water rights, expansive soil, wildfire insurability, radon, and abandoned mine hazards that don't exist anywhere else. See the general Home Inspection Report Checklist
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- The same five report checks that catch gaps between the walkthrough and the write-up
- Nine Colorado-only checks covering water rights and well permits, expansive soil, wildfire insurability, radon, and abandoned mine hazards
- Built around Colorado's specific water law and geology, not a generic list with the state name swapped in
What's inside
5 universal checks + 9 Colorado-only checks. 14 total in the free PDF.
Section A: Universal checks
- Confirm every space you'd expect is actually in the report.Attic, crawl space, basement, electrical panel. If the listing or the inspector mentioned it out loud, it should show up in writing somewhere.
- Check whether the report's length matches how long the inspection took.A three-hour walkthrough that turns into two pages is a mismatch worth a phone call.
- Compare what the inspector said out loud to what ended up in writing.If you took notes during the walkthrough, pull them out and read both side by side.
Section A: Universal checks
Section B: Colorado-only checks
“This gets you far enough to know when to ask a harder question, in Colorado specifically. It won't tell you whether a stair-step crack means normal seasonal movement or a real foundation problem, how to read a wildfire risk score, or what a finding is actually worth at the negotiating table. That's the difference between noticing a report was softened and knowing what it was softened from. That's Don't Use Their Inspector.”
Sources
- Why Anyone Can Call Themselves a Home Inspector in Colorado | Denver7
- Office of Radon Professionals | Colorado Division of Professions and Occupations
- Water Rights | Colorado Division of Water Resources
- C.R.S. § 6-6.5-101, Disclosure to Purchaser | Justia
- About | Colorado FAIR Plan
- Abandoned Mine Land Hazards | Colorado Geological Survey
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