How to read a WDO Pest Inspection Report

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if you’ve ever bought or sold a home, you may know that a pest inspection is one of the things that should be done. If you haven’t, then you may not be familiar with the pest inspection.

A pest inspection for a real estate transaction is technically called a WDO inspection. This stands for wood destroying organism inspection. So technically, it only covers with destroying organisms. This can include subterranean termites, dry wood termites, damp wood termites, fungus in the attic or crawlspace, dry rot, and other issues that may damage the framing or trim or wood members of the home.

What a pest inspection for a real estate transaction does not include is general pest such as rodents, rats, mice, spiders, ants, wasps or roaches. And in Pest Control, these are two different licenses. General Pest is classified as branch to where destroying organisms is classified as branch three.

So you may be wondering, How to read a wdo pest inspection report ?

The first page is gonna be the diagram. It will have a drawing of the home with a bunch of letters and numbers. Each letter and number combination will mean a finding from the pest inspection. The next few pages are typical boiler plate information. An outline of what a wood destroying organism inspection is and isn’t. How to read the inspection Report.

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The layout of the report. Then when you get to page 4 or 5 is generally where all the findings are listed. This is an area that you want to pay close attention to as it will have all the findings from the inspection. With each finding that was listed on the first page diagram, there will be details In this section of the report. Typically, there will be prices for treatments and repairs.

After a few pages of the findings there will be a work contractor re-listing the findings and prices. This is what can be returned to the pest company signed with a deposit to approve and schedule the work.

The next page is usually clauses and products that will or can be used on the property. There will be poison control numbers, ag department numbers, structural pest board numbers and the pest controls companies phone number

Hopefully this helps you read through your next WDO Pest inspection report!