Building and pest inspection report app
A combined building and pest report is two inspections under two parts of AS 4349 delivered as one document, often by two licensed people. The building half grades defects; the timber pest half records activity, damage, conducive conditions and an overall risk. Buyers read it as one report, so the two halves have to agree about the same subfloor and the same leaking downpipe. SurveyThanks keeps both halves on one job, linked to the same areas.
Built for inspection firms running teams of roughly 3–50 inspectors.
Sample Combined building pest report
An illustrative excerpt. The site, readings and findings are fictional; the layout is yours to set.
Combined building pest report
Part B — Timber pest findings, 7 Example Crescent
- Standard
- AS 4349.3 visual timber pest inspection
- Inspected
- 3 May 2026
- Overall degree of risk
- Moderate to high
| Location | Observation | Finding |
|---|---|---|
| Sub-floor, north-east corner | Mud leads on brick pier, inactive | Finding: Evidence |
| External, rear patio | Timber sleepers in contact with soil | Finding: Conducive |
| Downpipe, west side | Discharging against the slab edge | Finding: Conducive |
| Roof void | No activity or damage found | Finding: Clear |
Fields captured on site
Your firm builds the form in-app, so these are a starting point rather than a fixed schema. Every field is captured on the device, with or without signal, and lands in the combined building pest report where your template puts it.
Shared areas
- Area name
- Accessed / not accessed
- Photos with comment
- Moisture meter reading where taken
Building defects
- Linked area
- Major / minor
- Description
- Recommended trade
Timber pest
- Linked area
- Live termites / evidence / damage
- Conducive condition type
- Other timber pests (borers, fungal decay)
- Overall degree of risk
Standards the report works to
- AS 4349.1-2007Inspection of buildings — Pre-purchase inspections — Residential buildings
- Governs the building half of the combined report.
- AS 4349.3-2010Inspection of buildings — Timber pest inspections
- Governs the timber pest half, including conducive conditions and the overall risk statement.
- AS 3660.2Termite management — In and around existing buildings and structures — Guidelines
- Referenced when the report recommends a termite management program.
Load the standards you hold into your reference library and the drafted prose is written against them rather than against a general model.
How the combined building pest report gets built
Capture it once, offline
Your firm builds the building and pest inspection form in-app — 25 field types, nesting repeatable groups, compound AND/OR visibility rules, reusable modules and calculated fields. Field capture works with no signal: jobs, forms, photos, notes and audio all queue in an idempotent outbox that only clears once the server confirms receipt.
Link it to your rooms and external areas
Enter rooms and external areas once, as a register. Every one of your defects, photos and timber pest findings then points at a stored row rather than a name somebody typed — and the links survive a disconnected device.
Render your own template
The combined building pest report renders into the Word template you already use — your letterhead, your section order, your clause library — with conditionals, loops over repeats, composable sub-templates and photo grids.
Reviewed before it leaves
You write the review framework: a checklist of what a combined building pest report must contain, plus the prose standards you would mark a junior against. Link it to a report template and it runs every time that template renders. Each finding comes back graded info, minor or major, quoting the sentence at fault, and a person accepts or dismisses every one.
Because the structured submission behind the report is held too, the review is a comparison rather than a proofread: The summary says no major defects were found; the form carries a major structural defect on the rear wall.
Checks a residential property framework usually carries
- The standard’s required wording, limitations and exclusions are all present
- Every area is either reported on or listed as not accessed, with a reason
- Each defect in the summary appears in the body at the same severity
- Timber pest findings carry the risk statement the standard requires
Questions
- Can a building inspector and a pest inspector work the same job?
- Yes. Both are assigned to one job and fill their own sections of the same form, so the combined report renders once with both parts in it.
- Can one observation count as both a building defect and a conducive condition?
- Yes. A leaking downpipe can be linked to the area in both halves, so the building and pest sections describe it consistently instead of in two unrelated sentences.
- Can we sell the pest report on its own sometimes?
- Report sections are individually switchable sub-templates, so the same form can render a combined report or a pest-only report depending on what was ordered.
What this is not
Worth knowing before you book a demo, so neither of us wastes the half hour.
- Not field-service dispatch. No timesheets, no parts, no inventory. Scheduling exists to get an inspector to a site.
- No signature capture. If your deliverable has to carry a signed sign-off on the artefact itself, this is not the tool yet.
- Field capture is what works offline — jobs, forms, photos, notes and audio. Reports, chat, scheduling and the inbox need a connection.
- No client portal. Reports go out as a file or a password-protected link.
Other residential property work we cover
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- Mould inspectionsMould assessment report
- New-build handover inspectionsPCI defect report
- Owner-builder defect inspectionsDefect schedule
- Pre-auction inspectionsCondition summary report
- Pre-purchase building inspectionsBuilding inspection report
- Pre-settlement inspectionsSettlement checklist report
- Property photography ordersPhoto floorplan package
Other disciplines
Rebuild your combined building pest report in SurveyThanks
Bring the Word template you already send clients. If you are coming off another field-forms tool, a filled report can be uploaded, read field by field, and re-rendered into your template.